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Yuanyuan Fu, PhD

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Yuanyuan Fu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics Data Scientist
Office: BSB 222-9
fuy@hawaii.edu
(808) 692-1529

Degrees

PhD in Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

Research Focus

Bioinformatics, Epidemiology, Genetics, Cancer Biomarkers, Health Disparities

Specifically, focusing on (1) Genetic biomarker research for cancer early detection and prognosis for improving patients’ clinical outcomes; (2) Cancer health disparity study on multiethnic and minority populations for advancing health equity.

Selected Publications

  • Chen Y, Gao Z, Mohd-Ibrahim I, Yang H, Wu L, Fu Y, Deng Y. Pan-cancer analyses of bromodomain containing 9 as a novel therapeutic target reveals its diagnostic, prognostic potential and biological mechanism in human tumours. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 2024 Feb;14(2):e1543. doi: 10.1002/ctm2.1543. PMID: 38303608; PMCID: PMC10835192. (co-corresponding author)
  • Fu Y, Wu K, Wang Z, Yang H, Chen Y, Wu L, Yanagihara R, Hedges JR, Wang H, Deng Y. Effectiveness of various COVID-19 vaccine regimens among 10.4 million patients from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative during Pre-Delta to Omicron periods - United States, 11 December 2020 to 30 June 2022. Vaccine. 2023 Oct 6;41(42):6339-6349. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.08.069. Epub 2023 Sep 22. PubMed PMID: 37741761.
  • Fu Y, Takahashi D, Khadka V, Nasu M, Jijiwa M, Chen Y, Borgard H, Deng Y. Predictive genetic risk factors and prognostic nomogram for colorectal cancer in Native Hawaiian population. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2022; 31: PO–167. doi: 10.1158/1538-7755.DISP21-PO-167
  • Fu Y, Katsaros D, Biglia N, Wang Z, Pagano I, Tius M, Tiirikainen M, Rosser C, Yang H, Yu H. Vitamin D receptor upregulates lncRNA TOPORS-AS1 which inhibits the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and associates with favorable prognosis of ovarian cancer. Scientific Reports. 2021 Apr 5;11(1):7484. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86923-7. PMID: 33820921; PMCID: PMC8021562.
  • Hu L, Chen S, Fu Y, Gao Z, Long H, Wang JM, Ren HW, Zuo Y, Li H, Wang J, Xu QB, Yu WX, Liu J, Shao C, Hao JJ, Wang CZ, Ma Y, Wang Z, Yanagihara R, Deng Y. Risk Factors Associated with Clinical Outcomes in 323 COVID-19 Hospitalized Patients in Wuhan, China. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2020 May 3: ciaa539. (co-first author)