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

Professional Researcher

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

Kelsey Trumbach, MPH

Clinical Research Coordinator

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Christina Chen

Research Finance Administrator

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Nathan Dang, PharmD

Program Coordinator, UCSF-Stanford CERSI

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Lawrence Lin, PhD

Executive Director, UCSF-Stanford CERSI

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• Management and oversight of the UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation

Mina Azimi, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

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• Proteomic analysis of transporters at the blood-brain barrier across development to better understand age-related differences in drug response

Andrew Riselli, PharmD

Postdoctoral Scholar

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Megan Koleske, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

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• Functional genomic studies of SLC22A5 to inform new treatment modalities for carnitine transporter deficiency

Dina Buitrago Silva

Graduate Student

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• Characterization of the orphan transporters within the SLC22 Family and discovery of their clinical phenotype

Xujia Zhou

Graduate Student

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

Huy Ngo, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar (2019-2022)

Ling Zou, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar (2014-2021)

Sebastian Jakobsen

Visiting Pharmacy Student (2021)

Bianca Vora, PhD

Graduate Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (2017-2021)

Jessica Enogieru, PharmD, BCPS

Graduate Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (2014-2020)