Alan S. L. Yu, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Yu received his medical degree with Distinction in Medicine from Cambridge University, England. He completed his internship, residency, and fellowship in nephrology, and his research training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He was an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School from 2000 to 2002, when he moved to Los Angeles to join the faculty at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

Dr. Yu’s research interest is in the physiology of renal tubule fluid and electrolyte transport, and its role in the pathogenesis of hypertension and chronic kidney disease. The current focus of his laboratory is on paracellular transport and the tight junction, and on the regulation of distal tubule sodium transport. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation. Dr. Yu has received numerous awards, including the Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Award of the American Society of Nephrology, and the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Yu sits on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology and the Journal of Biological Chemistry. He is a standing member of the NIH Study Section, “Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Kidney”. Dr. Yu has authored over 60 scientific articles, reviews and book chapters, and lectured extensively worldwide. He is also an editor of the upcoming edition of “Brenner and Rector’s The Kidney”, the bestselling nephrology textbook worldwide.