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==Early life and education== ==Early life and education==

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Eugene Gu
File:Dr. Eugene Gu.jpgDr. Eugene Gu at the Ganogen Research Institute
Born (1986-03-05) March 5, 1986 (age 38)
San Francisco, California
NationalityUnited States
Alma materStanford University
(B.S. Biological Sciences, 2008);
Duke University School of Medicine
(M.D. Doctor of Medicine, 2015)
OccupationResident physician

Eugene Gu (born March 5, 1986) is a resident physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and President and CEO of the Ganogen Research Institute a not-for-profit research organization dedicated to ending the shortage of donor organs. His scientific work has shown that human fetal kidneys and hearts can be transplanted into immunocompromised animals where they subsequently function and grow larger This guy is actually crazy and created a wikipedia page for himself and inserted his name into the "notable alumni" of school he attended.

Early life and education

Gu was born and raised in San Francisco, the oldest of two children. He graduated from Terra Nova High School in 2004 as valedictorian and later from Stanford University in 2008 with a degree in biology.

Gu then earned his M.D. from Duke University School of Medicine in 2015. During medical school, Gu was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowship to perform research at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Work

He is best known for performing the first successful human fetal heart and kidney transplants in immunocompromised rats. Gu was the first to discover a method of lowering the mean arterial pressure of the blood entering the transplanted fetal organ within the animal host to the appropriate physiological level seen in a fetus, thus allowing the transplants to be successful. The heart and kidneys not only survived but grew larger in size and could function to support the life of the host animal. This may have important implications for the treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, bilateral renal agenesis, and other congenital diseases of the heart and kidney.

Ganogen Research Institute

Ganogen Research Institute or Ganogen, Inc. is a not-for-profit research organization co-founded by Eugene Gu and Nick K. Chang in 2012, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization is dedicated to ending the shortage of donor organs. Scientists at the institute are supporting this research and have shown that human fetal kidneys and hearts can be transplanted into immunocompromised animals where they subsequently function and grow larger. This research caused the Ganogen Research Institute and their researchers to be subpoenaed in 2016 by the United States Congress as part of the larger investigation into the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy.

Activism

On March 30, 2016, Gu was subpoenaed by Congress for his research involving human fetal tissue. It was questioned if he acquired the research samples illegally. Or with out knowledge of the person donating. Under the authorization of Marsha Blackburn, Chairwoman of the United States House Select Investigative Panel on Planned Parenthood, the subpoena demanded all of Gu's emails, purchase records, and communications in what has been characterized as a wide dragnet. He has since spoken out about what he perceives to be the unfair treatment and intimidation of researchers and physicians drawn into the Planned Parenthood 2015 undercover videos controversy. Eugene Gu, Ganogen's founder and CEO, wrote that the Congressional subpoena has endangered researchers' lives.

Together with StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer, Gu wrote an article in Nature drawing attention to Representatives Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Diane Black of Tennessee, and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri for endangering the lives of scientists and hindering research into the Zika virus. He has appeared on Science Friday with Ira Flatow and on The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur to speak out in defense of other subpoenaed parties such as StemExpress, Planned Parenthood, and DaVinci Biosciences. In response, Blackburn's office made a public statement that "no serious scientists" are pursuing Gu's line of research.

Gu has been recognized by the Union of Concerned Scientists for "standing strong against political harassment." He has withstood attacks from pro-life activists such as David Daleiden, far-right news media Breitbart News, and fake news websites run by Alex Jones.

Gu is one of seven Twitter users suing U.S. President Donald Trump for being blocked from his @realDonaldTrump personal account. The Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump lawsuit was filed on July 11, 2017 Gu, who has more than 10,000 Twitter followers, was blocked by Trump after tweeting criticism of him on June 18, 2017. Gu stated, "Now I have extremely limited access to the public forum where I once could be heard."

Media

On October 2016 Gu was interviewed, on the Public Radio International radio program Science Friday in the episode "Science in the Crosshairs" discussing the subpoenaed by the United States Congress.

In 2017 Gu has been writing opinion editorial contributions to newspapers and magazines; July 2017 he wrote in Fortune magazine, "Why I’m Suing President Trump for Blocking Me on Twitter" while continue to criticize the Trump administration. In August 2017, Gu wrote in The Hill newspaper about the Texas 'rape insurance' bill (House Bill 214).

External links

References

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