Laboratory members
| Photo | Who | Research interests |
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| Akinyemi O. Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD Principal investigator X profile: @Akinyemi_OO Introduction: Brains and Braggadocio (audio, 50 minutes). Pronouns: he/him/his | Clinical validation of pharmacogenetic associations for cardiovascular therapies. |
| Selma Alamarie, BS PharmD student Pronouns: she/her/hers | Improve treatment of diabetes in both children and adults by evaluating how medications, devices, and genetic information can be used to guide more personalized and equitable care. |
| Borui Cai, BS MS student in Health Data Science Pronouns: he/him/his | Applying data science and statistical modeling to questions in pharmacotherapy and health outcomes, with a focus on understanding how treatments impact patients in the real world.
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| Chris Dimitropoulos, MS PharmD student Pronouns: he/him/his | My research interests are using personalized medicine to improve health outcomes. Some fields I am interested in are Pharmacogenomics and Immunotherapy. |
| Michael Douglas, MS Program manager X profile: @MDouglas_MS Pronouns: he/him/his | Evaluating the equitable implementation of new technologies in precision medicine for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and pharmacogenomics. |
| Maya Gollamudi, BS MS student in Health Data Science Pronouns: she/her/hers | Applying statistical methodology and machine learning approaches to analyze complex health data, particularly as it applies to improving risk assessment and prediction for patients. |
| Tanushree Haldar, PhD Data scientist Pronouns: she/her/hers | Implementing statistical methods in both local and cloud computing platforms to analyze biomedical data with special emphasis on pharmacogenomics and genetic epidemiology. |
| Mark Kvale, PhD Programmer/analyst Pronouns: he/him/his | Using statistical genetics and machine learning techniques to analyze data, to infer results in large-scale genetic and genomic experiments, and to develop novel approaches to analysis. |
| Kim Madlangbayan, BS PharmD Student Pronouns: she/her/hers | Applying pharmacogenetics to advance precision medicine in cardiology and immunology, with a passion for translational medicine and bridging research and real-world care through science and technology. |
| Soha Shahidi, BS MS student in Health Data Science Pronouns: she/her/hers | Applying machine learning techniques and statistical methods to better understand large genomic data sets for precision medicine. |
| Nanase Toda, BS PhD student in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics Pronouns: she/her/hers | Developing and evaluating precision medicine tools to optimize the risk and benefit for therapies. |
Alumni
| Photo | Name, Role, Years | Project | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boxuan "Jeffrey" Fan, BS Post-baccalaureate researcher 2023 - 2025 | Characterize the comparative efficacy of carvedilol and metoprolol succinate and explore the effect of participant-specific factors, such as race and comorbidities, on drug efficacy. | Master's Student, Carnegie Mellon University. | |
| Elim Berhe Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) Post-undergraduate student 2024 | Factors Associated with Variation in Steady-State Warfarin Dosing Requirements | Undergraduate student, University of California, Irvine. | |
| Joseph Harmon, BS Research Associate 2022-2023 Undergraduate Research Assistant 2019-2020 | PlacEbo-controlled, Randomized, patient-Selected Outcomes N-of-1 triaL (PERSONAL-pilot): alpha-blockers for lower urinary tract symptoms | PhD student, Scripps Research. | |
| Janille Miranda, PharmD Intensive Research Project PharmD student 2021–2023 | Candidate genetic variants of statin-induced myotoxicity. | PGY-1 ambulatory care pharmacy resident, Stanford University. | |
| Mari Cayabyab, PharmD Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (CPT) postdoctoral fellow 2020–2022 | Coronary heart disease polygenic risk score and secondary prevention of myocardial infarction. Abstract/Award: Cayabyab et al. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2022;111: S63. Jason Morrow Trainee Award winner (2nd-best trainee abstract at the conference). | Clinical pharmacy specialist – pharmacogenomics, University of Pennsylvania. | |
| Siem Tsegay Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) undergraduate student 2022 | Pilot study to characterize the pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of tamsulosin deprescribing. | Undergraduate student, Macalester College. | |
| Brian Lu, PharmD Pharmacogenomics Discovery Project PharmD student 2019–2021 | Effect of SLCO1B1 T521C on statin-related myotoxicity with use of lovastatin and atorvastatin. Publication: Lu et al. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Sep;110(3):733-740. PMID: 34114646. | Clinical pharmacist, Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley | |
| Laura Sun, PharmD Pharmacogenomics Discovery Project PharmD student 2019–2021 | Effect of SLCO1B1 T521C on statin-related myotoxicity with use of lovastatin and atorvastatin | Clinical pharmacist, Winship Emory Midtown | |
| Adeya Wyatt, BS Summer Research Project undergraduate student 2020 | The impact of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors on inflammatory biomarkers. | PhD student, Columbia University, Biomedical Engineering |
