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Mei San Tang
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Mei San Tang, MD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

ARUP

Hematopathology
500 Chipeta Way
Salt Lake City , UT 84108

Huntsman Cancer Institute - Cancer Hospital South

Pathology
1950 Circle of Hope
Salt Lake City , UT 84112

Specialties

  • Pathology

Board Certification

American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)
American Board of Pathology (Sub: Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine)

Board Certification and Academic Information

Academic Departments Pathology -Assistant Professor (Clinical)
Board Certification
American Board of Pathology (Clinical Path)
American Board of Pathology (Sub: Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine)

Education history

Fellowship Transfusion Medicine/Blood Banking - Stanford University Fellow
Residency Clinical Pathology - Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University in St. Louis Chief Resident
Residency Clinical Pathology - Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University in St. Louis Resident
Postdoctoral Training Immunology and Computational Biology - New York University School of Medicine Postdoctoral Researcher
Professional Medical Medicine - Monash University M.B.B.S.

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Hernandez PV, Shen M, Tang MS, Taniguchi M, Borcherding N, Liu C (2025). Antigen and eplet coverage by representative solid-phase immunoassays for anti-HLA antibody screen. Hum Immunol, 86(4), 111339.
  2. Tang MS, Shu E, Sussman H, Virk M, Pandey S, Shan H, Pham T (2022). Transfusion outcomes between regular and low yield pathogen reduced platelets across different patient populations in a single institution. Transfusion, 62(10), 2012-2019.
  3. Tang MS, Sempek DS, Rensing KJ, Thibodeaux SR (2021). Volume determination methods for hematopoietic progenitor cell products collected by apheresis. Cytotherapy, 23(11), 991-995.
  4. Tang MS, Wang M, Chang SH, Alhamad T, Liu C (2021). Association of Bw4/Bw6 mismatch across class I HLA loci with renal graft outcomes in first time transplants. Hum Immunol, 82(10), 767-774.
  5. Tang MS, Lloyd M, Williams M, Farnsworth CW, Budelier MM (2020). Performance Evaluation of an Automated Fentanyl Immunoassay. J Appl Lab Med, 6(5), 1192-1201.
  6. Orner EP, Rodgers MA, Hock K, Tang MS, Taylor R, Gardiner M, Olivo A, Fox A, Prostko J, Cloherty G, Farnsworth CW (2020). Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 IgM and IgG seroconversion profiles among hospitalized patients in two US cities. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 99(4), 115300.
  7. Tang MS, Case JB, Franks CE, Chen RE, Anderson NW, Henderson JP, Diamond MS, Gronowski AM, Farnsworth CW (2020). Association between SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies and Commercial Serological Assays. Clin Chem, 66(12), 1538-1547.
  8. Tang MS, Miraldi ER, Girgis NM, Bonneau RA, Loke P (2020). Alternative Activation of Macrophages Is Accompanied by Chromatin Remodeling Associated with Lineage-Dependent DNA Shape Features Flanking PU.1 Motifs. J Immunol, 205(4), 1070-1083.
  9. Tang MS, Hock KG, Logsdon NM, Hayes JE, Gronowski AM, Anderson NW, Farnsworth CW (2020). Clinical Performance of Two SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Assays. Clin Chem, 66(8), 1055-1062.
  10. Devlin JC, Zwack EE, Tang MS, Li Z, Fenyo D, Torres VJ, Ruggles KV, Loke P (2020). Distinct Features of Human Myeloid Cell Cytokine Response Profiles Identify Neutrophil Activation by Cytokines as a Prognostic Feature during Tuberculosis and Cancer. J Immunol, 204(12), 3389-3399.
  11. Lee SC, Tang MS, Easton AV, Devlin JC, Chua LL, Cho I, Moy FM, Khang TF, Lim YAL, Loke P (2019). Linking the effects of helminth infection, diet and the gut microbiota with human whole-blood signatures. PLoS Pathog, 15(12), e1008066.
  12. Gtz A, Tang MS, Ty MC, Arama C, Ongoiba A, Doumtabe D, Traore B, Crompton PD, Loke P, Rodriguez A (2017). Atypical activation of dendritic cells by Plasmodium falciparum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(49), E10568-E10577.
  13. Tang MS, Bowcutt R, Leung JM, Wolff MJ, Gundra UM, Hudesman D, Malter LB, Poles MA, Chen LA, Pei Z, Neto AG, Abidi WM, Ullman T, Mayer L, Bonneau RA, Cho I, Loke P (2017). Integrated Analysis of Biopsies from Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients Identifies SAA1 as a Link Between Mucosal Microbes with TH17 and TH22 Cells. Inflamm Bowel Dis, 23(9), 1544-1554.
  14. Gundra UM, Girgis NM, Gonzalez MA, San Tang M, Van Der Zande HJP, Lin JD, Ouimet M, Ma LJ, Poles J, Vozhilla N, Fisher EA, Moore KJ, Loke P (2017). Vitamin A mediates conversion of monocyte-derived macrophages into tissue-resident macrophages during alternative activation. Nat Immunol, 18(6), 642-653.
  15. Chua LL, Rajasuriar R, Azanan MS, Abdullah NK, Tang MS, Lee SC, Woo YL, Lim YA, Ariffin H, Loke P (2017). Reduced microbial diversity in adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia and microbial associations with increased immune activation. Microbiome, 5(1), 35.
  16. Ramanan D, Bowcutt R, Lee SC, Tang MS, Kurtz ZD, Ding Y, Honda K, Gause WC, Blaser MJ, Bonneau RA, Lim YA, Loke P, Cadwell K (2016). Helminth infection promotes colonization resistance via type 2 immunity. Science, 352(6285), 608-12.
  17. Tang MS, Poles J, Leung JM, Wolff MJ, Davenport M, Lee SC, Lim YA, Chua KH, Loke P, Cho I (2015). Inferred metagenomic comparison of mucosal and fecal microbiota from individuals undergoing routine screening colonoscopy reveals similar differences observed during active inflammation. Gut Microbes, 6(1), 48-56.
  18. Ramanan D, Tang MS, Bowcutt R, Loke P, Cadwell K (2014). Bacterial sensor Nod2 prevents inflammation of the small intestine by restricting the expansion of the commensal Bacteroides vulgatus. Immunity, 41(2), 311-24.
  19. Gundra UM, Girgis NM, Ruckerl D, Jenkins S, Ward LN, Kurtz ZD, Wiens KE, Tang MS, Basu-Roy U, Mansukhani A, Allen JE, Loke P (2014). Alternatively activated macrophages derived from monocytes and tissue macrophages are phenotypically and functionally distinct. Blood, 123(20), e110-22.

Review

  1. Tang MS, Shan H (2024). Current state of gene therapy in sickle cell disease. [Review]. Vox Sang, 119(6), 521-528.

Book Chapter

  1. Tang MS, Bowcutt R, Loke P (2018). Assessing the Mouse Intestinal Microbiota in Settings of Type-2 Immune Responses. In Walker JM. (Ed.), Methods in Molecular Biology (1799, pp. 359-370). United States: Springer.

Case Report

  1. Tang MS, Duffy BF, Jennemann JE, Parikh BA, Liu C (2021). A novel B*07 variant allele, B*07:416, identified by next-generation sequencing. HLA, 97(6), 545-546.
  2. Azimi V, Tang MS, Budelier MM (2020). Was the Iron Profile Really Incomplete? Clin Chem, 67(4), 700.
  3. Tang MS, Wettach GR, Eby CS (2019). Evaluation of a Patient with Extremely High Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin and Mean Corpuscular Hemoglobin Concentration. Clin Chem, 66(3), 497-498.
  4. Tang MS, McCoy DG, Eby CS, Scott MG (2019). Electrolytes Gone Wild in a 56-Year-Old Man. Clin Chem, 66(2), 398-399.

Editorial

  1. Tang MS, Farnsworth CW (2021). Associating SARS-CoV-2 Serological Assays with Protection: Where the Field Stands. Clin Chem, 67(5), 707-709.

Letter

  1. Tang MS, Hock KG, Logsdon NM, Hayes JE, Gronowski AM, Anderson NW, Farnsworth CW (2020). Clinical Performance of the Roche SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Assay. [Letter to the editor]. Clin Chem, 66(8), 1107-1109.

Other

  1. Lee SC, Tang MS, Lim YAL, Choy SH, Kurtz ZD, Cox LM, Gundra UM, Cho I, Bonneau R, Blaser MJ, Chua KH, Loke P (2021). Correction: Helminth Colonization Is Associated with Increased Diversity of the Gut Microbiota. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (15(4), pp. e0009325). United States.