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"The BMS program consists of an intense group of stellar faculty and outstanding students working together to understand fundamental biological questions and to create cutting-edge biomedical therapeutics. The program also just happens to be nestled in one of the most exciting, fun, and concentrated intellectual settings in the country. I cannot imagine a better training environment for a young scientist."
Yun Yung
A.B., UC Berkeley
Entered BMS: 2003
Program Area: Neurobiology
NSF Predoctoral Fellow
Publications
Yung YC, Rehen SK, McCreight MP, Yang AH, Almeida BSV, Kingsbury MA, Cabral KMS, Kaushal D, McConnell MJ, Anliker B, Fontanoz M, Chun J. (2005) Constitutional Aneuploidy in the Normal Human Brain. J. Neuroscience. 25, 2176-2180. [Cover article]
Udani V, Santarelli J, Yung Y, Cheshier S, Andrews A, Kasad Z, Tse V. (2005) Differential expression of angiopoietin-1 and angiopoietin-2 may enhance recruitment of bone marrow-derived endothelial precursor cells into brain tumors. Neurological Research 27, 801-806.
Udani VM, Santarelli JG, Yung YC, Wagers AJ, Weissman IL, Cheshier S, Tse V. (2005) Hematopoietic Stem Cells Give Rise to Perivascular Endothelial-like Cells during Brain Tumor Angiogenesis. Stem Cells & Dev 14, 478-486.
Huhn SL, Yung YC, Cheshier S, Harsh G, Ailles L, Weissman I, Vogel H, Tse VK. (2005) Identification of phenotypic neural stem cells in a pediatric astroblastoma. J. Neurosurgery (5 Suppl Pediatrics) 103, 446-450.
Yung YC, Cheshier S, Santarelli JG, Huang Z, Wagers A, Weissman IL, Tse VK. (2004) Incorporation of Naïve Bone Marrow Derived Cells into the Vascular Architecture of Brain Tumor. Microcirculation 11, 699-708.
Tse V, Xu L, Yung YC, Santarelli JG, Juan D, Fabel K, Silverberg G, Harsh G. (2003) The temporal-spatial expression of VEGF, angiopoietins-1 and 2, and Tie-2 during tumor angiogenesis and their functional correlation with tumor neovascular architecture. Neurological Research 25(7):729-738.
Tse VK, Yung YC, Xu L, Huang Z, Hsaio M, Yancopoulos G, Silverberg G. (2004) Effects of Tumor Suppressor Gene p53 on Brain Tumor Angiogenesis and Expression of Angiogenic Modulators. Anticancer Research 24, 1-10.
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