Categories: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Asthma drug response in racially diverse children

Wed Mar 7, 2018
Burchard
Sam S. Oh

Senior Author Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

“Whole genome sequencing of pharmacogenetic drug response in racially diverse children with asthma” has been published by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (ARJCCM).

Student speaker Ana Cruz shares her path to pharmacy and activism

Thu Oct 19, 2017
Cruz
Elisabeth Fall

Ana Cruz, Class of 2018

Ana Cruz knew, when she was very young, exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up, she told the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021 at their White Coat ceremony.

She wanted the same job as the woman in white.

Undocumented students remain in the shadows of the chemical sciences

Mon Apr 24, 2017
PSPG student Angel Ku is highlighted in a Chemical & Engineering News story about how undocumented immigrant youth in the U.S. are entering science and related fields, but their future remains bleak.

Black Genes Matter

Mon Mar 20, 2017

Genetic Insights About Health Risks Limited By Lack Of Diversity, Study Finds

Thu Aug 18, 2016

Burchard leads call for diversity in research workforce

Thu Jun 16, 2016
White, Contreras, Risse-Adams
Noah Berger

Marquitta White (right), MS, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Burchard Lab, took on five young summer research students of diverse backgrounds, including Maria Contreras (left) and Oona Risse-Adams (center), a 16-year-old sophomore at Lowell High School in San Francisco.

The photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. hanging on the wall of the Asthma Collaboratory lab in UC San Francisco’s Rock Hall serves a reminder to all who toil there, purifying DNA samples or analyzing genetic, social or environmental data that their research is also part of a dream of equality and...

Why Are Health Studies So White?

Thu Jun 16, 2016

Blacks Die From Asthma at Steep Rates, But Are Absent From Many Studies

Tue Jun 7, 2016

Tales of African-American History Found in DNA

Tue May 31, 2016

Burchard Lab study finds most asthma research may not apply to African American children

Thu May 12, 2016
White and Burchard
Noah Berger

Marquitta White (left), MS, PhD, and Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH. Photo by Noah Berger

Results from the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known genetic risk factors for the disease apply to this population.

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