Room 324F, Children's Hospital

Phone: 843-792-8814

Education:

• PhD, 1999, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China
• MS, 1995, Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, 2000-2003, University of Georgia. Athens, GA
• Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology Fellowship, 2003-2005, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY
• Pharmacogenetics Fellowship, 2005-2006, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY

Research Interests:

• Pharmacogenomics
• Development of SNP typing assays
• Clinical application of SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry
• Clinical proteomics

Recent Publications:

• Zhu, Yusheng, Michael Shennan, Kristen K. Reynolds, Nancy A. Johnson, Matthew R. Herrnberger, Roland Valdes Jr., Mark W. Linder. Estimation of warfarin maintenance dose based on VKORC1 (-1639G>A) and CYP 2C9 genotypes. Clinical Chemistry 2007, 53(7):1199-1205

• Zhu, Yusheng, David W. Hein, Mark A. Doll, Abudu, N., Valdes, R. Jr., Linder, M. Simultaneous determination of N-acetyltransferase-2 (NAT2) polymorphisms by allele-specific primer extension assay. Clinical Chemistry 2006, 52(6):1033-9

• Zhu, Yusheng, Valdes, R. Jr., Simmons, C. Q, Jortani, S. A. Analysis of ligand binding by bioaffinity mass spectrometry, Clin Chim Acta 2006, 371(1-2):71-8

• Zhu, Yusheng, Elin, R.J. Ethanol treatment of serum produces a spurious band on electrophoresis. Clin Chim Acta 2006;366(1-2):341-3.

• Zhu, Yusheng, Valdes, R. Jr., Jortani, S. A. Application of bioaffinity SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring 2005;27(6):694-9.

• Zhu, Yusheng, Tomlinson, R. L., Terns, R. M., Terns, M. P. Telomerase RNA accumulates in Cajal bodies in human cancer cells. Molecular Biology of the Cell 2004, 15: 81-90

• Etheridge, K.T., Banik, S. S. R., Armbruster, B. N., Zhu, Yusheng, Terns, R. M., Terns, M. P., Counter, C. M. The nucleolar localization domain of the catalytic subunit of human telomerase. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 2002, 277 (27): 24764-70