Girish N. Vyas, PhD

Girish N. Vyas, PhD, FRCPath

Professor
Laboratory Medicine
Division
Transfusion Medicine
Specialty Areas
Virology/Immunology of Blood-borne Infections
Immune Prophylaxis Against HIV Infection

UCSF
Laboratory Medicine, Box 0134
185 Berry Street, Suite 350
San Francisco, CA 94143
United States

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Hospital Affiliations
UCSF Parnassus Heights
Other UCSF Organizational Association(s)
  • UCSF Liver Center
  • AIDS Research Institute
Selected Publications
  • Tiollais P, Charnay P and Vyas GN. Biology of hepatitis B virus. Science 1981; 13:406-411.
  • Busch MP, Eble BA, Khayam-Bashi H, Murphy E, Heilbron D, Kwok S, Sinks J, Perkins HA, Vyas GN. Evaluation of contemporary screened blood donors for occult HIV-1 infection using pooled cell culture and DNA amplification techniques. N Engl J Med 1991; 325:1-5.
  • Vyas GN. Engaging in the evolution of transfusion medicine from a dispensary into a discipline. Pioneers and Pathfinders, Transfusion Medicine Reviews, 2008; 22:162-167.
  • Vyas GN, Stoddart C, Killian MS, Brennan T, Goldberg T, Zaiman A, Bryson Y. Derivation of non-infectious envelope proteins from virions isolated from plasma negative for HIV antibodies. Biologicals 2012; 40:15-20.
  • Stevens CE, Toy, P, Kamili S, Taylor PE, Tong MJ, Xia G-L, Vyas GN. Eradicating hepatitis B virus: The critical role of preventing perinatal transmission. Biologicals. 2017; 50:3-19.
Awards
  • 1969 Jean Julliard Prize of the International Society of Blood Transfusion