Session Chair Profile
M.D., Ph.D., Associate. Prof., UCSF Lab. Med. & Infec. Diseases, Director, UCSF-Abbott Viral DX & Discovery Center
Biography
Dr. Chiu is an expert in the development and implementation of advanced genomic technologies for pathogen discovery and clinical diagnostics, including microarrays and next-generation sequencing, for a variety of blood-borne infections. His efforts in Lyme disease focus on the development of diagnostics for both pathogen detection and host response. He uses next-generation sequencing and has developed the “TickChip” to directly detect the RNA of Lyme bacteria and other tick-borne pathogens. He is also using RNA-sequencing technology to detect and identify a diagnostic profile of the body’s response to being infected by Lyme disease. He recently published in the highly prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, as described in a New York Times article, about the ability to uniquely and expeditiously diagnose a disease caused by an uncommon bacterial pathogen, Leptospira santarosai.
