
Dean Sheppard MD
Pleural Disease
Professor, Medicine, UCSF School of Medicine
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CVRI-MC 31181, Room 252R555 Mission Bay Blvd SouthSan Francisco, CA 94158
Phone+1 415-514-4269
Fax+1 415-476-2283
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Education & Training
- University of WashingtonResidency, Internal Medicine, 1975 - 1978
- Stony Brook University Health Sciences Center School of MedicineClass of 1975
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 1978 - 2024
- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Association of American Physicians 1995
- Elected Member The American Society for Clinical Investigation, 1993
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare Marquis Whos Who
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- RUNX2 promotes fibrosis via an alveolar-to-pathological fibroblast transition.Yinshan Fang, Sanny S W Chung, Le Xu, Chenyi Xue, Xue Liu
Nature. 2025-04-01 - Radial glia integrin avb8 regulates cell autonomous microglial TGFβ1 signaling that is necessary for microglial identity.Gabriel L McKinsey, Nicolas Santander, Xiaoming Zhang, Kilian L Kleemann, Lauren Tran
Nature Communications. 2025-03-22 - ATF4 drives regulatory T cell functional specification in homeostasis and obesity.Ke Wang, Andrea Farrell, Enchen Zhou, Houji Qin, Zixuan Zeng
Science Immunology. 2025-03-14
Press Mentions
- 3 Researchers Named 2021 Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of ScienceJanuary 26th, 2022
- With One Rival down, Novartis-Partnered Biotech Scores $100M Round to Fund Mid-Stage Trials of Fibrosis DrugMarch 3rd, 2020
- Devastating Disease of the Lung Is a New Research Gift’s FocusJuly 16th, 2018
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Grant Support
- Induction, fate and function of inflammatory fibroblastsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2024–2028
- Induction, fate and function of inflammatory fibroblastsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2024–2028
- Induction, fate and function of inflammatory fibroblastsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2024–2028
- Multidisciplinary Training Program in Lung DiseaseUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO1976–2027
- Multidisciplinary Training Program in Lung DiseaseUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO1976–2027
- Multidisciplinary Training Program in Lung DiseaseUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO1976–2027
- Fibroblast heterogeneity in pulmonary fibrosisUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2020–2025
- Natural History of Viral Induced Airway Dysfunction and Asthma in Minority ChildrenUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO2018–2025
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