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Helen Diller Family Compr Cancer Ctr
WEIYUN Z. AI, PHD, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine (Div. of Hematology/Oncology), UCSF

CONTACT

weiai@medicine.ucsf.edu
(415) 353-4061 (voice)

Box 0324, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0324

EDUCATION

Beijing University, China, Bsc, 1984-1987, Cell Biology and Genetics
Columbia University Medical School, New York, 1987-1989, Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine, California, PhD, 1989-1995, Microbiology & Immunology
Stanford University School of Medicine, California, MD, 1996-2000, Medicine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

06/93 - 09/93

Bayer Pharmaceuticals, Kobe, Japan, Research associate, Molecular Biology Laboratory of Pharmacology Institute

06/00 - 06/01

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Internship in Internal Medicine

07/01 - 06/02

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Residency in Internal Medicine

07/02 - 06/05

Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, Clinical fellow in medical oncology

07/03 - 09/03

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Visiting oncology fellow on Bone Marrow Transplant Service

07/05 - 12/06

Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, Postdoctoral research fellow in immunotherapy in Dr. Ronald Levy's laboratory

03/06 - 12/06

Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, Instructor in medical oncology

01/07 - present

University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology

HONORS & AWARDS

1997

Beckman Scholar, Stanford University

1998

Dean's Scholar, Stanford University

2005

Young Investigator Award by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

2005

Lisa Beth Fishman Memorial Fellow of Lymphoma Research Foundation (2005-2007)

2006

Travel Award by American Society of Hematology (ASH)

2006

Brigid G. Leventhal Scholar Awards by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Dingwall, A., Zhuang, W., Quon, K., Shapiro, L.: Expression of an early gene in the flagellar regulatory hierarchy is sensitive to an interruption in DNA replication. Journal of Bacteriology, 174:1760-1768, 1992.

Zhuang, W., Shapiro, L.: Caulobacter FliQ and FliR membrane proteins, required for flagellar biogenesis and cell division, belong to a family of virulence export proteins. Journal of Bacteriology, 177:343-356, 1995.

Zhuang, W. et. al: The susceptibility of muscle cells to oxidative stress is independent of nitric oxide synthase expression. Muscle & Nerve, April, 2001: 502-511

Advani, R., Ai, Weiyun Z., and Sandra J. Horning: Management of advanced Hodgkin's disease. Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (JNCCN), 4:241-247, 2006.

Olga K. Weinberg, Weiyun Z. Ai, M. Rajan Mariappan, Carol Shum, Ronald Levy, Daniel A. Arber. 2007 "Minor" BCL2 breakpoints in follicular lymphoma: Frequency and correlation with grade and disease presentation in 236 cases. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, accepted. Epub July 25, 2007.

Ai, Weiyun Z., Tibshirani, R., Taidi B., Czerwinski, D., and Ronald Levy: Induction of anti-idiotype antibody through vaccination correlates with better survival in follicular lymphoma. Submitted. 2007

ABSTRACTS:

Zhuang, W., Shapiro, L.: FliQR: an early expressed operon in C. crescentus flagellar biogenesis. Poster presentation, American Society of Microbiology Annual Conference, 1992

Ai, Weiyun Z., Czerwinski, D., Holmes, T., Tibshirani, R., Horning, S., and Ronald Levy: The Percentage of Tumor-infiltrating T cells Is Not Correlated with Overall Survival in Follicular B-cell Lymphomas. Poster presentation, at American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2004

Ai, Weiyun Z., Kim, Youn, Hoppe, R. T., Shah, S., Horning, S. J., Tibshirani, R., and Ronald Levy Preliminary Report on a Phase I/II Study of Intratumoral Injection of PF-3512676 (CpG 7909), a TLR9 Agonist, Combined with Radiation in Recurrent Low-grade Lymphomas. Poster presentation, American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2006

Ai, Weiyun Z., Czerwinski, D., Horning, S.J., Allen, J., Tibshirani, R., and Ronald Levy: Tumor- infiltrating T cells are not predictive of clinical outcome in follicular lymphoma. Oral presentation, American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting 2006

Ai, Weiyun Z., Hsu, F., Timmermen, J., Czerwinski, B., Taidi, B., Levy, R., Sandra J. Horning: Alternating CVP with fludarabine chemotherapy prior to idiotype vaccination for follicular lymphoma. Poster presentation, American Association of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting 2007

A Morales, W Ai, RT Hoppe, S Shah, R Levy, and YH Kim. Novel in situ vaccination with intratumoral injection of CpG 7909, a TLR 9 agonist, combined with radiation in mycosis fungoides and primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma. American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting, 2007

8/6/07

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