Alan Yu

Nephrology Division, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, United States of America

Alan S. L. Yu, M.B., B.Chir.

Academic positions:
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
- Renal tubule transport of salts, minerals and water
- Paracellular transport, and the role of tight junction proteins
- Disorders of mineral metabolism (calcium and magnesium)

Any other information:
Section Editor, Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension (2000-2003)
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (2003-2006)
Editorial Board, American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology
(2003-Present)
External reviewer, Wellcome Trust Programme Grants, UK (2000-Present)
External Referee Panel, National Kidney Research Fund, UK (2001-Present)
American Heart Association, Western Review Consortium Committee (2003)
Ad hoc member, NIH General Medicine B Study Section (2003)
Ad hoc member, Veterans Administration Nephrology Merit Review
Subcommittee (2004)
American Physiological Society, Renal Section Awards Committee (2004-Present)
Acute Renal Failure Medical Advisory Board, Genzyme Corp. (2005)
Editorial Board, Journal of Biological Chemistry (2006)

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Nephrology > Mineral Metabolism & the Kidney (since 10 November 2005)

Links

http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~alanyu/

All recent recommendations

• 8.8
  Fibroblast growth factor 23 and mortality among patients undergoing hemodialysis.
  Recommended by Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Jurg Schifferli with Michael Mayr, Kenneth White with Emily G Farrow, Bradley Dixon, Csaba Kovesdy, Alan Yu with Jeanie Park, David Salant with Laurence H Beck Jr, Markus Ketteler
  
• 3.0
  Association of activated vitamin d treatment and mortality in chronic kidney disease.
  Recommended by Alan Yu with Jeanie Park
  
• 3.0
  Differential effects of vitamin D receptor activators on vascular calcification in uremic rats.
  Recommended by Alan Yu
  
• 3.0
  Association of serum fetuin-A levels with mortality in dialysis patients.
  Recommended by Alan Yu
  
• 3.0
  Mutations in the tight-junction gene claudin 19 (CLDN19) are associated with renal magnesium wasting, renal failure, and severe ocular involvement.
  Recommended by Alan Yu
  
• 3.0
  High urinary calcium excretion and genetic susceptibility to hypertension and kidney stone disease.
  Recommended by Alan Yu
  
• 3.0
  Identification of human urinary trefoil factor 1 as a novel calcium oxalate crystal growth inhibitor.
  Recommended by Alan Yu
  
• 3.2
  SLC34A3 mutations in patients with hereditary hypophosphatemic rickets with hypercalciuria predict a key role for the sodium-phosphate cotransporter NaPi-IIc in maintaining phosphate homeostasis.
  Recommended by Alan Yu, Lee Weinstein