Maria L. Wei, Ph.D., M.D.

Dermatologist

Clinics

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Education

Duke University School of Medicine 1992

Residencies

Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Internal Medicine 1993
UCSF Medical Center, Dermatology 1997

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Biochemistry and Biophysics 2002

Selected Research and Publications

1. Huang ZM, Chinen M, Chang PJ, Xie T, Zhong L, Demetriou S, Patel MP, Scherzer R, Sviderskaya EV, Bennett DC, Millhauser GL, Oh DH, Cleaver JE, Wei ML. Targeting protein-trafficking pathways alters melanoma treatment sensitivity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2012 Jan 10; 109(2):553-8.
2. Agarwal P, Verzi MP, Nguyen T, Hu J, Ehlers ML, McCulley DJ, Xu SM, Dodou E, Anderson JP, Wei ML, Black BL. The MADS box transcription factor MEF2C regulates melanocyte development and is a direct transcriptional target and partner of SOX10. Development. 2011 Jun; 138(12):2555-65.
3. Xie T, Nguyen T, Hupe M, Wei ML. Multidrug resistance decreases with mutations of melanosomal regulatory genes. Cancer Res. 2009 Feb 1; 69(3):992-9.
4. Nguyen T, Wei ML. Hermansky-Pudlak HPS1/pale ear gene regulates epidermal and dermal melanocyte development. J Invest Dermatol. 2007 Feb; 127(2):421-8.
5. Wei ML. Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome: a disease of protein trafficking and organelle function. Pigment Cell Res. 2006 Feb; 19(1):19-42.
6. Nguyen T, Wei ML. Characterization of melanosomes in murine Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome: mechanisms of hypopigmentation. J Invest Dermatol. 2004 Feb; 122(2):452-60.
7. Nguyen T, Novak EK, Kermani M, Fluhr J, Peters LL, Swank RT, Wei ML. Melanosome morphologies in murine models of hermansky-pudlak syndrome reflect blocks in organelle development. J Invest Dermatol. 2002 Nov; 119(5):1156-64.
8. Wei ML, Bonzelius F, Scully RM, Kelly RB, Herman GA. GLUT4 and transferrin receptor are differentially sorted along the endocytic pathway in CHO cells. J Cell Biol. 1998 Feb 9; 140(3):565-75.

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