Michael P. Busch, MD, PhD
Research and Clinical Interests
I direct a large, extramurally-funded research program, a division of the 2nd-largest blood donor collection/distribution program in the US, focused on blood safety and transfusion medicine: detection, natural history and pathogenesis of infectious/non-infectious diseases (e.g., HIV, HBV, HCV, parvo B19, Chagas' disease, dengue) and other complications (transfusion-related acute lung injury, TRALI; microchimerism).
Selected Publications
- Heyns AduP, Benjamin RJ, Swanelvelder JPR, Laycock ME, Pappalardo BL, Crookes RL, Wright DJ, Busch MP. The Impact of a Structured Blood Safety Policy on HIV-1 Transfusion Transmission Risk in South Africa. JAMA, 295:519-526, 2006.
- Lee T-H, Wen L, Montalvo L, Esho O, Lowell C, Reed W, Busch MP. Minimum Conditions of Major Histocompatibility Complex Compatibility and Recipient Immune Compromise Required to Establish Donor White Blood Cell Persistence in a Murine Transfusion Model. Transfusion, 45:301-314, 2005.
- Lee T-H, Paglieroni T, Utter G, Chafets D, Gosselin RC, Reed W, Owings JT, Holland PV, Busch MP. High-Level Long-Term White Blood Cell Microchimerism after Transfusion of Leukoreduced Blood Components to Patients Resuscitated after Severe Traumatic Injury. Transfusion, 45:1280-90, 2005.
- Fiebig EW, Heldebrant C, Smith RIF, Conrad A, Delwart EL, Busch MP. Intermittent Low-Level Viremia in Very Early Primary HIV-1 Infection. J AIDS, 39:133-137, 2005.
- Busch MP, Caglioti S, Robertson EF, McAuley JD, Tobler LH, Kamel H, Linnen JM, Shyamala V, Tomasulo PA, Kleinman SH. Screening the Blood Supply for West Nile Virus RNA by Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing. N Engl J Med, 353:460-7, 2005.
Selected Awards
- 2005 President’s Award, Society for the Advancement of Blood Management
- 2005 Emily Cooley Award, American Association of Blood Banks
- 2007 Visiting Professor, Rita & Taft Schreiber Lecture, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
- 2000 inaugural Karen Williams Memorial Lecturer, South Central Association of Blood Banks
- Adjunct Professor, Dept of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF; Director, Blood Systems Research Institute; Vice President, Research and Scientific Affairs, Blood Systems, Inc.
- Laboratory Medicine
Contact Information
- MBusch@
bloodsystems.org - Phone: (415) 749-6615
- Mobile: (415) 407-2328
- Fax: (415) 775-3859
- Blood Systems Research Institute
- 270 Masonic Avenue
- San Francisco, CA 94118
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Other UCSF Organizational Association(s)
Member
- AIDS Research Institute (ARI): Basic Science Committee
- Steering Committee; Executive Council
affiliated faculty member
- UCSF / UCB Institute for Global Health
- UCSF GI Liver Center
- Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)