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October 20, 2026

UCSF Magazine

The Right Drug, the First Time

Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD, is using genetics to end the guesswork in prescribing and helping make sure no one gets left behind.
August 29, 2025

Welcoming new members to the lab

NEWS STORY - AUGUST 2025
July 24, 2025

New precision medicine health equity paper that challenges existing assumptions about CYP2D6 enzyme functionality is published

NEWS STORY - JULY 2025
June 4, 2025

Review paper on pharmacogenetics implementation authored by Michael Douglas published in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

NEWS STORY - JUNE 2025
May 7, 2025

Soha Shahidi successfully defended her Master of Science in Health Data Science

NEWS STORY - MAY 2025
April 9, 2025

Akin presented at the 2025 NAM Emerging Leaders Forum

NEWS STORY - April 2025
March 28, 2025

Akin was invited as the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Speaker” for a symposium hosted by his alma mater, University of Michigan

NEWS STORY - MARCH 2025
February 27, 2025

New publication led by Tanushree Haldar validates key genetic variants for statin muscle toxicity that, if applied clinically, will benefit understudied patient groups

NEWS STORY - FEBRUARY 2025
January 30, 2025

Jeffrey Fan accepted to Carnegie Mellon's prestigious MSML Program

NEWS STORY - JANUARY 2025
December 12, 2024

Members of the Oni-Orisan Lab present at ASHP midyear 2024 in New Orleans

NEWS STORY - DECEMBER 2024
November 6, 2024

Nanase Toda attends and presents poster at the annual QBC Graduate Research Conference in Santa Cruz

NEWS STORY - NOVEMBER 2024
October 31, 2024

Members of the Oni-Orisan Lab present at CSHP 2024 in Palm Springs

NEWS STORY - OCTOBER 2024
July 29, 2024

Akin Oni-Orisan and UCSF colleagues strengthen ongoing collaboration with University of Nigeria Pharmacists at African scientific meeting

NEWS STORY - JULY 2024
February 29, 2024

Oni-Orisan Lab members speak with BAYS Program students

NEWS STORY - FEBRUARY 2024
January 16, 2024

Oni-Orisan Lab welcomes Nanase Toda

NEWS STORY - JANUARY 2024
December 12, 2023

Drs. Oni-Orisan and Zhou publish pilot study describing community-based pharmacist care to address health disparities

NEWS STORY - DECEMBER 2023
October 19, 2023

Our colleague, Oyinlade Kehinde presents to the Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network “Research in Progress” on our ongoing global collaboration in pharmacogenetics research.

NEWS STORY - OCTOBER 2023
June 26, 2023

We are officially an R01-funded lab through NHGRI project “Genetic and social determinants of pharmacological health outcomes in ancestrally diverse populations (GASP)”

NEWS STORY - JUNE 2023
June 12, 2023

Our tutorial “An introductory tutorial on cardiovascular pharmacogenetics for healthcare providers” is officially published online

NEWS STORY - JUNE 2023
May 23, 2023

Dr. Oni-Orisan presented a talk titled “Advancing pharmacogenetics through a pharmacoequity lens” at the Human Genomic Diversity and Medicine: Challenges and Solutions to Reduce Health Disparities symposium

NEWS STORY - MAY 2023
April 1, 2023

We have started our project “Development of a precision medicine tool to predict dysglycemic effects of statin treatment” in collaboration with the lab of Dr. Marisa Medina

NEWS STORY - APRIL 2023
March 17, 2023

Lab member Janille Miranda, PharmD candidate has officially matched at Stanford University’s PGY1 Pharmacy Residency (ambulatory care track)

NEWS STORY - MARCH 2023
February 16, 2023

An R01 grant led by collaborator Elad Ziv titled “Evaluating the clinical implications for ACKR1/DARC associated neutropenia,” for which we are key contributors of, has received a fundable score

NEWS STORY - FEBRUARY 2023
January 11, 2023

Brains and Braggadocio: Dr. Akinyemi Oni-Orisan

NEWS STORY - JANUARY 2023