Gilbert Chu

Gilbert Chu
Gilbert Chu
朱築文
Born	January 20, 1946 (age 78); Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Princeton University (BA); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); Harvard University (MD)
Spouse	Sharon Long (m. 2008)
Children	2
Parents	Ju-Chin Chu (father); Ching-Chen Li (mother);
Relatives	Shu-tian Li (grandfather); Steven Chu (brother); Morgan Chu (brother)
Known for	DNA Repair, Genomics
	Scientific career
Fields	Biochemistry; Physics; Medicine; Molecular Biology; Biophysics
Institutions	Stanford University
Theses	Phenomenological dual models (1973); The kinetics of T cell killing: a description by Poisson statistics (1980);
Doctoral advisors	Francis Eugene Low (1973); Herman Eisen (1980)

Gilbert Chu (Chinese: 朱築文; pinyin: Zhū Zhùwén) is an American biochemist. He is a professor of medicine (oncology) and biochemistry at the Stanford Medical School.

Biography

Chu graduated from Garden City High School in New York in 1963. He received a B.A. in physics from Princeton University in 1967, a Ph.D. in physics from M.I.T. in 1973,^[1] and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1980.

Chu joined the Stanford faculty in 1987. His research has investigated how cells react to DNA damage from radiation. He has also developed electroporation techniques, a method for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis,^[2] and methods for analyzing microarray data.^[3]

Awards

Chu received the Clinical Scientist Award for Translational Research from Burroughs-Wellcome Fund (Wellcome Trust), and the Rita Allen Award from the Rita Allen Foundation.^[4] Chu was also elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society for contributions at the intersection of physics and life sciences, including PET, electrophoresis, and statistical methods for microarrays. His other notable contributions include discovering and characterizing proteins involved in DNA repair and developing instrumentation for assessing toxicity associated with cancer chemotherapy.^[5]

Personal life

He married Sharon Rugel Long on August 9, 2008. Chu has two children, Alex and Jason.

His younger brother Steven Chu is a Nobel laureate and the twelfth United States secretary of energy in the Obama administration.^[6] His other younger brother is the intellectual property attorney Morgan Chu.^[7]

Publications

Tusher V, Tibshirani R, Chu G "Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response" Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98 (9): 5116-5121 Apr 24, 2001 Times Cited: 12409
Tibshirani R, Hastie T, Narasimhan B, Chu G, "Diagnosis of multiple cancer types by shrunken centroids of gene expression" Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99 (10): 6567-6572 May 14, 2002 Times Cited: 2789
Chu G, Vollrath D, Davis RW, "Separation of large DNA molecules by contour-clamped homogeneous electric fields" Science 234 (4783): 1582-1585 Dec 19, 1986 Times Cited: 1706
Chu G, Hayakawa H, Berg P "Electroporation for the efficient transfection of mammalian cells with DNA" Nucleic Acids Res 15 (3): 1311-1326 Feb 11 1987 Times Cited: 942
Chu G, "Cellular responses to cisplatin - the roles of DNA-binding proteins and DNA-repair" J Biol Chem 269 (2): 787-790 Jan 14 1994 Times Cited: 833
Hwang BJ, Ford JM, Hanawalt PC, Chu G "Expression of the p48 xeroderma pigmentosum gene is p53-dependent and is involved in global genomic repair" Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96 (2), 424-428 Jan 19 1999 Times Cited: 640
Chu G, Chang E "Xeroderma pigmentosum group E cells lack a nuclear factor that binds to damaged DNA" Science 242 (4878), 564-567 Times Cited: 425
Smider V, Rathmell WK, Lieber MR, Chu G "Restoration of X-ray resistance and V (D) J recombination in mutant cells by Ku cDNA" Science 266 (5183): 288-291 Oct 14 1994 Times Cited: 360
Tang JY, Hwang BJ, Ford JM, et al. "Xeroderma pigmentosum p48 gene enhances global genomic repair and suppresses UV-induced mutagenesis" Molecular Cell 5 (4): 737-744 Apr 30 2000 Times Cited: 337

A complete listing of his publications can be found here.

References

^ Chu, Gilbert (1973). Phenomenological dual models (Ph.D.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 25277541 – via ProQuest.
^ "Electrophoresis using contour-clamped electric fields".
^ "Significance analysis of microarrays".
^ Gilbert Chu: DNA Dreamer [1] Rita Allen Foundation, March 1, 2016. Accessed April 10, 2019.
^ "APS Fellow Archive".
^ Bert Eljera, The Ultimate Physics Club Archived 2006-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, AsianWeek, Oct. 23-29, 1997. Accessed Jan. 29, 2007.
^ "A conversation with Morgan Chu '76". Harvard Law Today. July 1, 2013. Retrieved 2019-06-15.

External links

Gil Chu lab webpage Archived 2005-07-12 at the Wayback Machine
page at Stanford Medical School Archived 2014-01-01 at the Wayback Machine
Burroughs-Wellcome Fund

[thesis-chu-1973-1] Chu, Gilbert (1973). Phenomenological dual models (Ph.D.). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. OCLC 25277541 – via ProQuest.

[2] "Electrophoresis using contour-clamped electric fields".

[3] "Significance analysis of microarrays".

[4] Gilbert Chu: DNA Dreamer [1] Rita Allen Foundation, March 1, 2016. Accessed April 10, 2019.

[5] "APS Fellow Archive".

[6] Bert Eljera, The Ultimate Physics Club Archived 2006-05-31 at the Wayback Machine, AsianWeek, Oct. 23-29, 1997. Accessed Jan. 29, 2007.

[7] "A conversation with Morgan Chu '76". Harvard Law Today. July 1, 2013. Retrieved 2019-06-15.

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