Jessica Beers

Assistant Professor

Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacy Faculty, School Faculty

Email: jlbeers@uw.edu

Office Location: H375-I Health Sciences Building, Box 357630, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195

Expertise:
Drug Metabolism, Drug Transporters, Herbal Medicines, Mechanisms-of-Drug-Interactions, Microphysiological organ systems, Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics, Pregnancy and Fetal Pharmacology, Translational Research

Education:

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Washington School of Pharmacy
  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy

Biography:
Dr. Beers is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Washington. Dr. Beers is passionate about drug safety in understudied populations, and her past research has focused on precision medicine, drug-induced liver injury, and using in vitro systems to predict drug metabolism and toxicity. Dr. Beers’ current work combines basic and translational research to investigate drug metabolism and disposition in pregnancy and lactation.

Publications: NIH