Aylin Ulku, MD, PhD

Title(s)Professor, Medicine
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address521 Parnassus Avenue, #5204
San Francisco CA 94117
Phone415-476-6759
PronounsShe/Her/Hers
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    UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NCMD PhD06/2005MD, PhD in Pharmacology
    Yalen New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT06/2009Combined Medicine-Pediatric Residency
    University of California, San Francisco, CA2018Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training
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    Yale-New Haven Hospital2010Hugh Dwyer Award for Clincal Excellence
    UCSF2021Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award

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    Aylin Ulku joined the faculty at UCSF in July 2012. After completing her Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, she continued as Chief Resident in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at Waterbury/Yale-New Haven Hospitals. From 2010-2012, she began work in Kigali, Rwanda, as an Assistant Clinical Professor for Yale School of Medicine, to assist in medical education capacity building within the National University of Rwanda (NUR) School of Medicine.
    At UCSF, her focus remains in social justice and health equity through a variety of efforts. She is a member of an anti-racist committee working to reduce bias in documentation in the UCSF Health electronic record. She works as an advocate for adults living with sickle cell disease, accompanying patients throughout their hospital stays when admitted for complications of sickle cell disease. She has worked for over a decade as a mentor in global health education as the Director of the Global Health Elective in the Internal Medicine Residency program as well as in the HEAL (Health, Equity, Action, Leadership) Initiative, a fellowship for health practitioners across with world working or health equity. Currently, she serves as the Associate Director of the HEAL Initiative Global Fellowship.
    Aylin works full time as a clinician in both internal medicine and pediatric hospital medicine providing direct care or working with trainees as a coach and mentor.

    Education:
    - Princeton University, Chemistry (BA)
    - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (MD-PhD - pharmacology)
    - Yale-New Haven Hospital (internship, residency, chief resident)

    Board Certifications:
    - Internal Medicine (2010 to present)
    - Pediatrics (2010 to present)
    - Pediatric Hospital Medicine (2024)

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    1. Genetic and pharmacologic dissection of Ras effector utilization in oncogenesis. Methods Enzymol. 2006; 407:195-217. Campbell PM, Singh A, Williams FJ, Frantz K, Ulkü AS, Kelley GG, Der CJ. PMID: 16757325.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 7     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    2. Ras-mediated loss of the pro-apoptotic response protein Par-4 is mediated by DNA hypermethylation through Raf-independent and Raf-dependent signaling cascades in epithelial cells. J Biol Chem. 2005 Jun 17; 280(24):23363-70. Pruitt K, Ulkü AS, Frantz K, Rojas RJ, Muniz-Medina VM, Rangnekar VM, Der CJ, Shields JM. PMID: 15831492.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 34     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    3. Enhanced cathepsin L expression is mediated by different Ras effector pathways in fibroblasts and epithelial cells. Int J Cancer. 2004 Nov 01; 112(2):190-9. Collette J, Ulku AS, Der CJ, Jones A, Erickson AH. PMID: 15352030.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 9     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    4. Involvement of Ras activation in human breast cancer cell signaling, invasion, and anoikis. Cancer Res. 2004 Jul 01; 64(13):4585-92. Eckert LB, Repasky GA, Ulkü AS, McFall A, Zhou H, Sartor CI, Der CJ. PMID: 15231670.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 103     Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    5. Essential role of Raf in Ras transformation and deregulation of matrix metalloproteinase expression in ovarian epithelial cells. Mol Cancer Res. 2003 Dec; 1(14):1077-88. Ulkü AS, Schäfer R, Der CJ. PMID: 14707291.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 3     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    6. RASSF2 is a novel K-Ras-specific effector and potential tumor suppressor. J Biol Chem. 2003 Jul 25; 278(30):28045-51. Vos MD, Ellis CA, Elam C, Ulku AS, Taylor BJ, Clark GJ. PMID: 12732644.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 71     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    7. Ras signaling, deregulation of gene expression and oncogenesis. Cancer Treat Res. 2003; 115:189-208. Ulkü AS, Der CJ. PMID: 12613198.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 15     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    8. Mammalian expression vectors for Ras family proteins: generation and use of expression constructs to analyze Ras family function. Methods Enzymol. 2001; 332:3-36. Fiordalisi JJ, Johnson RL, Ulkü AS, Der CJ, Cox AD. PMID: 11305105.
      View in: PubMed   Mentions: 21     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
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