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| Kathy Giacomini, PhD, BSPharm Dean, School of Pharmacy
Professor and Principal Investigator [email protected] | - 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
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| Joanne Chun Director, MS in AICD3
Director, Postgraduate Education Programs
Assistant Adjunct Professor [email protected] | - Creates and develops innovative educational programs, enhancing opportunities for graduates in drug discovery and development
- Focuses on transforming patient care using computational methods in these fields
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Lab Members | |
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| Jia Yang, PhD Assistant Researcher [email protected] | - Investigating the physiological and pharmacological roles of SLC transporters
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Students | |
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| Youssef Abo-Dahab Graduate Student [email protected] | - Developing multimodal deep learning frameworks to predict the functional impact of genetic variants in membrane transporters
- Integrating clinical data, genomic, sequences, and molecular modeling to accelerate drug repurposing and target discovery
- Validating AI-generated predictions using functional assays to confirm the pathogenicity of identified transporter variants
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| Christina Chen Research Finance Administrator [email protected] | - Finance analyst for the Giacomini lab. Provides support for other research group and programs
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| Eric Ding Junior Specialist [email protected] | - Physiological and pharmacological function of SLC family transporters in the blood-brain barrier
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