Bao Joseph Vu
Biography
Bao Joseph Vu, MD, is HS Assistant Clinical Professor at UC Irvine School of Medicine, where he also serves as Associate Program Director of the UCI Preliminary Medicine Residency Program and VA Site Director for the UC Irvine Internal Medicine Residency Program. He holds concurrent positions as Hospitalist Physician at MemorialCare Medical Group and Hospitalist Physician and Clinician Educator at Tibor Rubin Long Beach VA Medical Center, and serves as Assistant Clinical Professor at Charles R. Drew University. Dr. Vu completed his internal medicine residency at UC Irvine and is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Before entering medical school, Dr. Vu worked as a Research Associate at Sangamo Biosciences, where he performed targeted DNA modifications in human induced pluripotent stem cells for potential use in Parkinson's and Huntington's Disease. His research contributions include co-authorship on publications in Cell, Neurobiology of Disease, and Nature Medicine, focusing on gene correction approaches for neurodegenerative diseases. He graduated cum laude in three years from UC Berkeley with a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology before earning his MD from SUNY Stony Brook University School of Medicine.
Dr. Vu has received recognition for his teaching, including the VA Teaching Attending of the Year award for 2022-2023 and the Gene Coodley Memorial Teaching Award for 2018-2019. He serves on the Clinical Competency Committee and Program Evaluation Committee for the UCI Internal Medicine Residency and completed the L.I.G.H.T Program at UC Irvine Medical Center, which focuses on teaching skills and feedback. Dr. Vu is fluent in Vietnamese and conversational in Spanish.
Return to topEducation
- BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2010
- MD, SUNY Stony Brook University School of Medicine, 2016
Distinctions
- Gene Coodley Memorial Teaching Award, 2018
- VA Teaching Attending of the Year, 2022
Areas of Expertise
- Internal Medicine Education
- Pluripotent Stem Cell Modification
- Neurodegenerative Disease Therapeutics
- Huntington's Disease Gene Correction
- Metabolic Acidosis Management
- Sinonasal Infection Complications
- Minoxidil-Induced Electrolyte Disorders
Recent Publications
- Ward KE, Ramsay J, Vu B Joseph, “A Case of Severe Metabolic Acidosis in the Setting of a Strict Ketogenic Diet” (opens in new tab), Cureus, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. e38741, 2023.
- Zeitler, Bryan, Vu, B Joseph, “Allele-selective transcriptional repression of mutant HTT for the treatment of Huntington's disease” (opens in new tab), Nature Medicine, vol. 25, no. 1, 2019.
- Sanders, Laurie, Vu, B Joseph, “LRRK2 mutations cause mitochondrial DNA damage in iPSC-derived neural cells from Parkinson's disease patients: Reversal by gene correction” (opens in new tab), Neurobiology of disease, vol. 62, 2013.
- Soldner, Frank, Vu, B Joseph, “Generation of Isogenic Pluripotent Stem Cells Differing Exclusively at Two Early Onset Parkinson Point Mutations” (opens in new tab), Cell, vol. 146, pp. 318-31, 2011.
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Last updated on 3/11/2026.