People

Kathy Giacomini, PhD, BSPharm

Dean, School of Pharmacy
Professor and Principal Investigator

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• Understanding the roles of membrane transporters in drug absorption, disposition, targeting, and in clinical drug response.
• Discovering natural variants in transporter genes in ethnically diverse human populations that associate with variation in drug response

Sook Wah Yee, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor

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• Investigating the discovery of transporters as drug targets
• Utilizing genomewide data to identify transporter endogenous role and drug pharmacological action

Jia Yang, PhD

Assistant Researcher

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• Investigating the physiological and pharmacological roles of SLC transporters.

Mark Kvale, PhD

Programmer Analyst

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• Using statistical genetics and machine learning to analyze data and infer results in large-scale genetic and genomic experiments.
• Provides statistical and genetic analyses support for several PIs in the UCSF. Staff at UCSF Institute of Human Genetics.

Olive Burata, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

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• Investigating the pharmacological role of SLC transporters in the Blood Brain Barrier
• Protein engineering of microbial drug transporters as bioremediation and bioaugmentation solutions
• Interested in fostering entrepreneurial education among PhDs and students 
• Long-time fan of the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco 49ers

Andrew Riselli, PharmD

Postdoctoral Scholar

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• Developing clinical biomarkers of ABC and SLC transporters to understand their role in drug disposition.

Xujia Zhou

Graduate Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics

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• Understanding how SLC transporters and drug-related enzymes change through evolution and how these changes contribute to diseases

Mark Ware

Graduate Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics

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• Structure, mechanisms, and function of SLC transporters in the blood-brain barrier.

Kelsey Trumbach, MPH

Clinical Research Coordinator

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• Management of clinical research investigating the discovery of transporters as drug targets. See Healthy Volunteers Needed for Genomic and Metabolomic Study.

• Ensure that clinical research and related activities are performed in accordance with federal regulations, university and sponsoring agency policies and procedures.

Kyle Shun

Staff Research Associate

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• Studying the role of SLC transporters in the blood-brain barrier.

Christina Chen

Research Finance Administrator

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• Finance analyst for Giacomini and Yee laboratory. Provides support for other research group and programs.

Wan-Yu Lai

Project Coordinator

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• Provides administrative support for Giacomini and Yee laboratory. Provides support for other research group and programs.