Chair, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Kathleen M. Giacomini, PhD
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- Professor
- Director, Center for Pharmacogenomics
- Joint appointments in School of Pharmacy, department of pharmaceutical chemistry and School of Medicine, department of cellular and molecular pharmacology
- PhD degree, pharmaceutics, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Research specialty: pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacogenomics
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What a wonderful time to be a scientist. It was not that long ago when classically trained scientists traditionally worked in parallel with little interaction -- biologist, chemist, geneticist, pharmaceutical scientist all moving ahead but on individual tracks. While this isolationism was never the norm at UCSF in particular, sea changes in science are quickly making it history elsewhere. And the Human Genome Project has been instrumental. It is becoming increasingly clear that genetic variation is involved with drug response and, along with it, the connection between the traditional disciplines of pharmaceutical sciences and human genetics is dissolving to be replaced by new collaborations of new groupings of scientists all working toward the goal of applying knowledge about genes and their proteins to ultimately ensure the right and most effective medicines are tailored to the special genetic needs of individuals with disease.
"Faculty members in the department of biopharmaceutical sciences are busy pioneering this new field of pharmacogenomics as well as the exciting field of systems biology, and they are preparing PhD students to do the same. We are also busy uncovering new insights about how drugs act in the body, how proteins interact in biological and pharmacological systems, and how to best collect and organize information about genes and other biological structures and processes using computers and statistical methods."
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Dr. Kathleen M. Giacomini
Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco
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UCSF Box 0912
San Francisco, CA 94143-0912
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513 Parnassus Avenue
Room S834
San Francisco, CA 94143
tel: 415/476-1936
fax: 415/502-4322
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