Carissa Chu, MD

Dr. Carissa Chu

Carissa Chu, MD

Assistant Professor of Urology
Stephen and Faith Brown Endowed Professorship in Urology

Education

  • BS, 2010, University of California San Diego, Human Biology
  • MD, 2015, University of California, San Francisco, Medicine
  • Residency, 2021, University of California, San Francisco, Urology
  • Fellowship, 2023, Memorial Sloan Kettering, New York, NY, Urologic Oncology

Biography

Carissa Chu, MD received her undergraduate training at University of California, San Diego, where she earned a degree with Honors in Human Biology.  After graduating, she earned her medical degree and completed her Urology residency at University of California, San Francisco.  She then went onto to complete her fellowship in Urologic Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In 2023, Dr. Chu was recruited to join the faculty at UCSF.

Clinical Interests

Dr. Chu's clinical interests include all urologic cancers including prostate, bladder, kidney, testis, and urethral/penile cancers with experience in both open and minimally invasive approaches.

Research Interests

Her research interests are currently focused on bladder cancer including mechanisms of resistance to the antibody-drug conjugate enfortumab vedotin, the molecular heterogeneity of variant histologic subtypes in bladder cancer, and biomarkers of BCG response in high-risk non-muscle invasive disease.

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Publications

Natural History and Genomic Landscape of Chemotherapy-Resistant Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer.

  • Publication Year
    2024
Lenis AT, Whiting K, Ravichandran V, Tallman JE, Alam SM, Chu CE, Jesus Escano M, Bochner E, Katims A, Reisz PA, Truong H, Clinton TN, Telis L, Dason S, McPherson V, Teo MY, Funt S, Aggen D, Goh AC, Donahue TF, Cha EK, Donat SM, Herr HW, Dalbagni G, Schultz N, Berger MF, Bajorin DF, Rosenberg JE, Bochner BH, Ostrovnaya I, Al-Ahmadie H, Solit DB, Iyer G, Pietzak EJ

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