Contact Information

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
900 Veteran Avenue
13-146 Warren Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1742
On-campus mail: 174222
Tel: (310) 794-7848
Fax: (310) 824-5990
E-mail: vlwgo@mednet.ucla.edu

Biosketch

Dr. Go's research interests, over the last 3 decades, have focused on neuro-hormonal control of gastrointestinal and pancreatic function and metabolism; nutrition and cancer; and cancer prevention. He began his academic career investigating the regulation of human pancreatic exocrine and endocrine secretions and early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, and subsequently expanded his research work to brain-gut interaction, and nutrition and cancer. From 1975-1985, he co-established and directed the National Cancer Institute Serum Immunodiagnostic Bank Program at the Mayo Clinic. This is the world's largest serum bank used by NCI in evaluating various tumor markers in diagnosing, prognosing and monitoring values in treating the various cancers evaluated by both NIH extramural and intramural programs. During 1985-1988, Dr. Go served simultaneously in three related capacities at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD: 1) Director, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 2) Chairman of the Nutrition Coordinating Committee at the Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (HIH). In 1988, he joined UCLA Department of Medicine as the Executive Chairman. Since 1996, Dr. GO has focused his creative energies in co-founding the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition with the mission of facilitating interdisciplinary research in nutrition and cancer prevention. Dr. Go has authored and co-authored more than 320 peer-reviewed articles and over 100 editorials, book chapters and review articles, and has co-edited 6 books and trained over 60 fellows and junior faculty, some of whom now provide national and international leadership in gastroenterology and pancreatology..

Selected References

Go VLW, Wong DA, Butrum R. Diet, nutrition, and cancer prevention: Where are we going from here? J Nutr 2001;131:3121S-3126S.

Boros LG, Lee W-NP, Go VLW. A metabolic hypothesis of cell growth & death in pancreatic cancer. Pancreas 2002;24:26-33.

Go VLW and Tache Y. Gastrointestinal Dysfunction and Anorexia: Role of Brain-Gut Axis in: The Control of Food and Fluid Intake in Health and Disease, edited by Michael J. G. Farthing and Dilip Mahalanabis. Nestle Nutrition Workshop Series, Pediatric Program. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia. 51: 31-44, 2003.

Go VLW, Butrum R, Wong DA. Diet, nutrition, and cancer prevention: The postgenomic era. J. Nutr 2003; 133(11). (In press)