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  • 2018 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions at the intersection of physics and life sciences, including PET, electrophoresis, and statistical methods for microarrays For discovering and characterizing proteins involved in DNA repair and developing instrumentation for assessing toxicity associated with cancer chemotherapy

Overview

Gilbert Chu is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Medicine with a particular focus on Oncology. Their work also spans Economics and Econometrics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Rehabilitation. The main topics covered in their research include Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers, CAR-T cell therapy research, Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer, Cancer survivorship and care, Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues, Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life, and Wound Healing and Treatments.

Gilbert Chu has published work in several academic venues. Their recent papers include:

  • "Economics of alternative dosing strategies for pembrolizumab and nivolumab at a single academic cancer center," 2020, Cancer Medicine
  • "Implementation of a cloud-based electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) platform in patients with advanced cancer," 2021, Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
  • "Point-of-Care Analysis of Blood Ammonia with a Gas-Phase Sensor," 2020, ACS Sensors
  • "The Role of Omics Techniques in Diabetic Wound Healing: Recent Insights into the Application of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing, Bulk RNA Sequencing, Spatial Transcriptomics, and Proteomics," 2025, Advances in Therapy
  • "Synapsis of DNA ends by DNA-dependent protein kinase," 2020, UNC Libraries

Among Gilbert Chu's frequent co-authors are Evan Hall, Jenny Zhang, Eun Jeong Kim, Grace Hwang, and Shailender Bhatia. Their collaboration count is highest with Evan Hall.

Gilbert Chu was awarded the title Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2018, in recognition of contributions spanning physics and life sciences, including work on PET, electrophoresis, statistical methods for microarrays, characterizing DNA repair proteins, and developing instrumentation related to cancer chemotherapy toxicity assessment.

Best Publications

  • Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response

    Virginia Goss Tusher;Robert Tibshirani;Gilbert Chu

  • Diagnosis of multiple cancer types by shrunken centroids of gene expression

    Robert Tibshirani;Trevor Hastie;Balasubramanian Narasimhan;Gilbert Chu

  • Separation of large DNA molecules by contour-clamped homogeneous electric fields

    Gilbert Chu;Douglas Vollrath;Ronald W. Davis

  • Electroporation for the efficient transfection of mammalian cells with DNA.

    Gilbert Chu;Hiroshi Hayakawa;Paul Berg

  • Cellular responses to cisplatin. The roles of DNA-binding proteins and DNA repair.

    G Chu

  • Expression of the p48 xeroderma pigmentosum gene is p53-dependent and is involved in global genomic repair

    Byung Joon Hwang;James M. Ford;Philip C. Hanawalt;Gilbert Chu

  • UV-Induced Ubiquitylation of XPC Protein Mediated by UV-DDB-Ubiquitin Ligase Complex

    Kaoru Sugasawa;Yuki Okuda;Masafumi Saijo;Ryotaro Nishi

  • Class Prediction by Nearest Shrunken Centroids, with Applications to DNA Microarrays

    Robert Tibshirani;Trevor Hastie;Balasubramanian Narasimhan;Gilbert Chu

  • Xeroderma pigmentosum group E cells lack a nuclear factor that binds to damaged DNA

    Gilbert Chu;Elaine Chang

  • Synapsis of DNA ends by DNA‐dependent protein kinase

    Lisa G. DeFazio;Rachel M. Stansel;Rachel M. Stansel;Jack D. Griffith;Gilbert Chu

  • Restoration of X-ray resistance and V(D)J recombination in mutant cells by Ku cDNA

    Vaughn Smider;W. Kimryn Rathmell;Michael R. Lieber;Gilbert Chu

  • Xeroderma pigmentosum p48 gene enhances global genomic repair and suppresses UV-induced mutagenesis.

    Jean Y Tang;Byung Joon Hwang;James M Ford;Philip C Hanawalt

  • Double Strand Break Repair

    Gilbert Chu

  • DNA-dependent protein kinase: DNA binding and activation in the absence of Ku

    Ola Hammarsten;Gilbert Chu

  • Involvement of the Ku autoantigen in the cellular response to DNA double-strand breaks.

    W K Rathmell;G Chu

  • Cancer Risk After Use of Recombinant Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 for Spinal Arthrodesis

    Eugene J. Carragee;Gilbert Chu;Rajat Rohatgi;Eric L. Hurwitz

  • Xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group E and UV-damaged DNA-binding protein.

    Jean Tang;Gilbert Chu

  • Cernunnos/XLF promotes the ligation of mismatched and noncohesive DNA ends

    Chun J. Tsai;Sunny A. Kim;Gilbert Chu

  • Significance analysis of microarrays

    Virginia Goss Tusher;Robert Tibshirani;Gilbert Chu

  • p53 Binds and Activates the Xeroderma Pigmentosum DDB2 Gene in Humans but Not Mice

    Thomas Tan;Gilbert Chu

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald W. Davis
Ronald W. Davis Stanford University
Douglas Vollrath
Douglas Vollrath Stanford University
Robert Tibshirani
Robert Tibshirani Stanford University
Trevor Hastie
Trevor Hastie Stanford University
W. Kimryn Rathmell
W. Kimryn Rathmell Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Paul Berg
Paul Berg Stanford University
Peter J. Oefner
Peter J. Oefner University of Regensburg
Ronald Levy
Ronald Levy Stanford University
Philip C. Hanawalt
Philip C. Hanawalt Stanford University

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