Topics and Expertise: Pediatric Pharmacology

The right dose: how pharmacy researchers are making medicine more precise

Reprinted courtesy of UCSF Magazine.

In the pediatric bone marrow transplant clinic, pharmacist Janel Boyle’s past and present collide.

She drifts past young patients—many of them infants and toddlers—and notes their beaming smiles and balding heads. Her gaze shifts to the parents, their...

Janel Long-Boyle, PharmD, PhD

Professor

I am a translational scientist with research interests that include pediatric cancer therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, and clinical trial design. The majority of my research is focused around the chemotherapeutic and immunosuppressive agents used in the...