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HAROLD S. BERNSTEIN, MD, PHD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics, UCSF
Member, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BMS) , UCSF

CONTACT

hsbernstein@pedcard.ucsf.edu
(415) 502-8633; 502-1571 (voice)
(415) 514-0235 (fax)

Box 0130, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0130

additional websites:

Bernstein Lab Website

EDUCATION

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, A.B., 1982, Biology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, M.Phil., 1983, Biomedical Science
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, Ph.D., 1986, Human Molec. Genetics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, M.D., 1990, Medicine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1986-1988

Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Genetics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

1990-1992

Resident, Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, CA

1992-1994

Clinical Fellow, Pediatric Cardiology, UCSF

1994-1997

Postdoctoral Fellow, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF

1997-2002

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF

1998-present

Member, Cancer Center, UCSF

1998-present

Member, Program in Biomedical Science, UCSF

1999-present

Investigator, Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF

1999-present

Member, Program in Human Genetics, UCSF

2000-present

Member, Molecular Medicine Training Program, UCSF

2003-present

Member, Program in developmental and Stem Cell Biology, UCSF

2003-present

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, UCSF

HONORS & AWARDS

1980

Harvard College Honorary Scholarship

1989

Assoc. Med. Schools of NY Award for Distinguished Performance in Research

1990

Upjohn Achievement Award for Clinical Excellence, Mount Sinai School of Med.

1990

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, Lambda Chapter

1990

Excellence in Teaching Award, University of California San Francisco

1991

Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners

1993

Diplomate, American Board of Pediatrics

1994-1995

American Heart Association, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

1995-2000

National Institutes of Health, Clinical Investigator Development Award

1996

Richard Rowe Research Award in Perinatal Cardiology, Soc. for Pediatric Research

1996

Melvin Grumbach Research Award, UCSF, San Francisco

1997-1998

Innovation in Basic Science Award, UCSF, San Francisco

1998-2000

March of Dimes, Basil O'Connor Starter Scholar Research Award

1998-2001

American Heart Association National Center, Grant-in-Aid (9750068N)

1999

Member, Society for Pediatric Research

1999

Ross Research Award, Society for Pediatric Research

1999

Young Investigator Award, Heart Failure Society of America

1999-2004

National Institutes of Health, New Research Grant (R01 HL62174)

2001-2004

American Heart Association National Center, Grant-in-Aid (0150062N)

2003-2008

American Heart Association National Center, Established Investigator Award (0340039N)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Calhoun, D.H., Bishop, D.F., Bernstein, H.S., Quinn, M., Hantzopoulos, P., and Desnick, R.J. (1985) Fabry disease: Isolation of a cDNA clone encoding human a_galactosidase A. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 82:7364-7368.

Desnick, R.J., Bernstein, H.S., Astrin, K.H., Potluri V.R., and Bishop, D.F. (1986) Fabry disease: Strategies for molecular diagnosis and therapy. Jap J Inher Metabol Dis 2:1-18.

Bishop, D.F., Calhoun, D.H., Bernstein, H.S., Hantzopoulos, P., Quinn, M., and Desnick, R.J. (1986) Human a_galactosidase A: Nucleotide sequence of a cDNA clone encoding the mature enzyme. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 83:4859-4863.

Bernstein, H.S. (1986) Cloning of human a_galactosidase A and molecular genetic studies of Fabry disease. Doctoral dissertation in Biomedical Sciences, City University of New York.

Desnick, R.J., Bernstein, H.S., Astrin, K.H., and Bishop, D.F. (1987) Fabry disease: Molecular diagnosis of hemizygotes and heterozygotes. Enzyme 38:54-64.

Bernstein, H.S., Bishop, D.F., Astrin, K.H., Kornreich, R., Eng, C.M., Sakuraba, H., and Desnick, R.J. (1989) Fabry disease: Six gene rearrangements and an exonic point mutation in the a_galactosidase gene. J Clin Invest 83:1390-1399.

Bernstein, H.S., Filly, R.A., Goldberg, J.D., and Golbus, M.S. (1991) Prognosis of fetuses with a cystic hygroma. Prenat Diagn 11:349-355.

Bernstein, H.S., Moore, P., Stanger, P., and Silverman, N.H. (1995) The levoatriocardinal vein: morphologic and echocardiographic evaluation of the pulmonary-systemic connection. J Am Coll Cardiol 26(4):995-1001.

Bernstein, H.S., Brook, M.M., Silverman, N.H., and Bristow, J. (1995) Development of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae in children following cavopulmonary shunt. Circulation 92(9):II-309-II-314.

Chen, J., Bernstein, H.S., Chen, M., Wang, L., Ishii, M., Turck, C.W., and Coughlin, S.R. (1995) Tethered ligand library for discovery of peptide agonists. J Biol Chem 270(40):23398-23401.

Bernstein, H.S., Ursell, P.C., Hanley, F.C., Brook, M.M., Silverman, N.H., and Bristow, J. (1996) Fulminant development of pulmonary arteriovenous fistulae in an infant following total cavopulmonary shunt. Pediatr Cardiol 17:46-50.

Bernstein, H.S., Ursell, P.C., and Teitel, D.F. (1997) Primary involvement of the mitral and aortic valves in TakayasuÕs arteritis. Cardiol Young 7(2):228-231.

Bernstein, H.S., and Coughlin, S.R. (1997) Pombe Cdc5-related protein: A putative human transcription factor implicated in mitogen-activated signaling. J Biol Chem 272(9):5833-5837.

Bernstein, H.S., and Coughlin, S.R. (1998) A mammalian homolog of fission yeast Cdc5 regulates G2 progression and mitotic entry. J Biol Chem 273(8):4666-4671.

Bristow, J.D., and Bernstein, H.S. (1998) Counseling families with chromosome 22q11 deletions: The catch in CATCH-22. J Am Coll Cardiol 32(2):499-501.

Chu, M.H., Xu, X., Lei, X., Turck, C.W., and Bernstein, H.S. (1999) A transcriptional regulator of G2/M responds to mitogen-activated signals through phosphorylation by protein kinase C. Circ 100:I-690.

Bernstein, H.S. (2000) Cell cycle regulation and myocardial regeneration. Japan Circ J 64:I-168.

Lei, X.-H., Shen, X., Xu, X.-Q., and Bernstein, H.S. (2000) Human Cdc5, a regulator of mitotic entry, can act as a site-specific DNA binding protein. J Cell Sci 113:4523-4531.

Hlaing, M., Shen, X., Dazin, P., and Bernstein, H.S. (2002) The hypertrophic response in C2C12 myoblasts recruits the G1 cell cycle machinery. J Biol Chem 277:23794-23799.

Shen, X., Collier, J.M., Hlaing, M., Zhang, L., Delshad, E.H., Bristow, J., and Bernstein, H.S. (2003) Genome-wide examination of myoblast cell cycle withdrawal during differentiation. Devel Dynam 226:128-138.

Liu, L., Gr·ub, R., Hlaing, M., Epting, C.L., Turck, C.W., Zhang, L., Xu, X.-Q., and Bernstein, H.S. (2003) Distinct domains of human Cdc5 direct its nuclear import and association with the spliceosome. Cell Biochem Biophys 39:119-131.

Epting, C.L., Shen, X., Liu, L., Zhang, L., Bristow, J., and Bernstein, H.S. (2003) GPI-anchored proteins regulate cell cycle withdrawal and myoblast fusion during differentiation. Ped Res 53:36A.

Hlaing, M., Spitz, P., Padmanabhan, K., Cabezas, B., Barker, C., and Bernstein, H.S. (2004) E2F-1 regulates a subset of target genes during cell growth without division. J Biol Chem in press.

Williams, S.D., Bernstein, H.S., and Zhu, H. (2004) Adenoviral delivery of human Cdc5 regulates G2/M progression and promotes cardiac myocyte proliferation. In review.

Epting, C.L., Shen, X., Liu, L., Bristow, J., and Bernstein, H.S. (2004) Stem cell antigen-1 is necessary for myoblast fusion and cell cycle withdrawal during skeletal myogenesis. In review.

Hansel, D.E., Dhara, S., Huang, R.C., Ashfaq, R., Diesel, M., Shimada, Y., Bernstein, H.S., Harmon, J., Brock, M., Forastiere, A., Washington, M.K., Maitra, A., and Montgomery, E. CDC2/CDK1 expression in esophageal adenocarcinoma and precursor lesions serves as a cancer progression marker and novel drug target. In review.

10/01/04

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