Carissa Chu, MD
Carissa Chu, MD
Education
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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Address:
1825 4th Street
6th floor Baker Precision Cancer Medicine Building
San Francisco, CA 94158
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University of California, San Francisco
Department of Urology, Mailcode 1695
550 16th Street, 6th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143