Dawei Bu
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Bu came to the US from China. He received his M.D. degree from China Medical University in 1990 and then his M.S. degree in 1998. He went on to received his Ph.D and then worked as an Assistant Professor at the China Medical University as well. In 2001, he came to the US seeking to obtain new knowledge in the medical field and joined UT Southwestern Medical Center as a postdoctoral research fellow. Working in the lab of Dr. David Euhus in the Department of Surgery, his research was focused on breast cancer and its prevention. In 2005, he became an Instructor and continued to work in the lab for the next 8 years. In 2014 Dr. Bu transferred to the laboratory of Dr. Philipp Scherer in the Touchstone Diabetes Center, Department of Internal Medicine where he continues to focus on investigating breast cancer.
Research Interest
Angiogenesis Breast Cancer
Publications
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Tamoxifen Downregulates Ets-oncogene Family Members ETV4 and ETV5 in Benign Breast Tissue: Implications for Durable Risk Reduction. Euhus DM, Bu D, Xie XJ, Sarode V, Ashfaq R, Hunt KK, Xia W, O'Shaughnessy JA, Grant M, Arun BK, Dooley W, Miller A, Flockhart DA, Lewis C Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.) 2011 Jul
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The clinical consequences of hemizygosity across 2 MB of 10q23 are restricted to Cowden syndrome. Lewis CM, Bu D, Sarode V, Robinson L, Wilson KS, Viscusi RK, Eng C, Euhus DM Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 2012 Dec 136 3 911-8
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Identification of breast cancer DNA methylation markers optimized for fine-needle aspiration samples. Bu D, Lewis CM, Sarode V, Chen M, Ma X, Lazorwitz AM, Rao R, Leitch M, Moldrem A, Andrews V, Gazdar A, Euhus D Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 2013 Dec 22 12 2212-21
