Tagged: precision medicine

Jeroen Jansen, PhD

Wed May 6, 2020

Associate Professor

I am a member of the Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS). I work on applied and methods research to understand the clinical and economic value of drugs and other health technologies.

Amelia Deitchman, PharmD, PhD

Wed Feb 5, 2020

Assistant Professor

My research seeks to inform novel therapeutic strategies to cure HIV through better understanding of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of individual and combinations of candidate drugs. Based out of the UCSF Drug Research Unit (DRU), I work with a multidisciplinary team of clinicians-scientists...

Michael Douglas

Mon Sep 9, 2019

TRANSPERS Program Manager

As program manager for the Center for Translational and Policy Research on Personalized Medicine (TRANSPERS), my work focuses on the value of new technologies and how to most effectively and efficiently implement them into health care, with a particular focus on personalized (or precision) medicine...

Asthma drug response in racially diverse children

Wed Mar 7, 2018

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).

Burchard leads call for diversity in research workforce

Thu Jun 16, 2016

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...

Classroom pharmacogenetics, post-hospital medications, and post-brain-surgery drugs take top honors

Thu May 26, 2016

Elisabeth Fall

Gary Rifkind, PharmD, Class of 1960.

Studies of pharmacogenetics testing of pharmacy students as a teaching tool, an improved system to resolve medication issues after patients go home from the hospital, and the prophylactic use of an antiseizure drug for brain surgery patients took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy...

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

Thu May 12, 2016

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.

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 36th year in a row

Thu Mar 31, 2016

UCSF News

For the 36th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

UC San Francisco establishes Quantitative Biosciences Institute

Wed Mar 16, 2016

Susan Merrell

Nevan Krogan, PhD

UC San Francisco today announced the establishment of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI).

Abate honored by White House with Presidential Early Career Award

Fri Feb 19, 2016

Adam Abate, PhD

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Adam Abate, PhD, has been named a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research...

Tagged: precision medicine

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