Topics and Expertise: quantitative pharmacology

Assistant Professor

My research is translational and informed by my clinical experience. In my lab we experimentally study mutant kinases discovered by clinical Next Generation Sequencing in patients with vascular anomalies and cancer, with the goal of understanding how these mutant kinases cause disease and can be...

Kathy Giacomini, PhD, has been named the 2017 recipient of the Henry W. Elliott Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT).

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is tapping the UCSF School of Pharmacy and Stanford University to launch its first West Coast regulatory science center, focused on spurring innovation in the development and evaluation of safer and more effective medications.

Pharmaceutical companies will increasingly apply the predictive modeling of quantitative pharmacology to do more efficient drug development, says Kathy Giacomini, PhD, co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (BTS), a joint department