Bio

Dr. Kathy Giacomini is Professor and Co-chair of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford University. Dr. Giacomini is considered a leader in the field of pharmacogenomics of membrane transporters. She led the discovery of coding and promoter variants of over 100 membrane transporters that play a role in drug response in ethnically diverse populations. Dr. Giacomini and her group functionally characterized over 100 transporter variants in cells, discovering both gain of function and loss of function variants that may lead to variation in drug response. She has received numerous awards for her research and teaching including the Dawson Award of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the Research Achievement Award in Drug Metabolism from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. In 2006, she was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. Specialties: Transporter Biology Pharmacogenomics Pharmacokinetics/Dynamics Molecular Pharmacology