Charleen T. Chu, MD, PhD
Dr. Charleen Chu is an associate professor of Neuropathology within the Pathology Department at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a secondary appointment in Opthalmology.
Dr. Chu graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with an AB degree in 1987. She went on to receive both a PhD and an MD from Duke University in the years 1993 and 1994, respectively. Following graduation, Dr. Chu continued on at Duke, doing postdoctoral work in Anatomic Pathology and then continuing as the recipient of a Neuro-oncology post-doctoral research fellowship and a Neuropathology & Ophthalmic Pathology fellowship. She worked briefly in the Durham County Medical Examiner’s office in North Carolina before joining the University of Pittsburgh.
Among other honors, Dr. Chu was the recipient of the Charles E. Culpeper Scholarship in Medical Science from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in 2000-2003; she was also a semifinalist in the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2005-2006 at Pitt.
The focus areas of Dr. Chu’s research are as follows:
- Transcriptional and autolysosomal regulation of neuritic/synaptic injury and regeneration
- Oxidative stress and cell signaling in the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s and related diseases
- Mitochondrial signaling and regulation of autophagy in neurons
- PINK1 and LRRK2, kinases linked to familial Parkinsonian syndromes
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Charleen T. ChuPhone: 412-383-5379
Email: ctc4@pitt.edu