Tsai fan Yu

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Tsai-Fan Yu (born October 24, 1911 in Shanghai , † March 2, 2007 in Manhattan ) was an American medical doctor of Chinese origin.

Life

Yu graduated from Ginling College with a bachelor's degree in 1932 and Peking Union Medical College (which was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University ) medicine with an MD degree in 1936 with top marks. Then she made it to Chief Medical Resident in Internal Medicine. At that time, she also researched plant diseases. In 1947 she went to New York City and worked at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (P&S). She received US citizenship in the 1950s and was at Mount Sinai Hospital from 1957 , where she was the first woman to receive a full professorship in 1973, and in 1982 she retired.

With Alexander B. Gutman she established the connection between gout and high uric acid level in the blood and tested with him the drug probenecid against gout and colchicine (published 1961) and in the 1960s allopurinol . She published around 200 scientific papers. In addition to purine metabolism and gout, she also dealt with phosphorus and calcium metabolism in osteomalacia .

She received the Distinguished Career Achievement Award from Mount Sinai, in which she also died. Yu received a Masters Award from the American Association of Rheumatology.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ A research professorship . She has been an instructor since 1950 and an assistant professor since 1960 at Columbia University College of P&S and since 1966 an associate professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine
personal data
SURNAME Yu, Tsai fan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medical doctor of Chinese origin
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Shanghai
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2007
Place of death Manhattan