Wei Gu

Wei Gu

USA

Biography

Wei Gu, MD, PhD, is a board-certified pathologist at UCSF. His research focuses on minimally invasive diagnostics using cell-free DNA/RNA with an emphasis on infectious disease, oncology, and prenatal diagnostics. He received his Bioengineering MD/PhD from Stanford University working with Dr. Stephen Quake on cell-free prenatal (NIPT) and cancer diagnostics. Dr. Gu completed his Clinical Pathology residency and Molecular Genetic Pathology fellowship at UCSF. He is a clinical instructor working with Dr. Joseph DeRisi, Dr. Steve Miller, and Dr. Charles Chiu on infectious disease sequencing.

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16:30

Less conventional clinical metagenomics techniques: Rapid pathogen detection by metagenomic next-generation sequencing of infected body fluids