Jingjing Yu
Affiliate Clinical Associate Professor
Department of Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutics Adjunct & Affiliate Faculty
Email: jingyu@uw.edu
Education
- PhD Degree in Biology,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- MS Degree in Biology,Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- MS Degree in Psychology,Peking University
- MD in Preventive Medicine,Peking University
Research Interests
- Drug disposition and mechanism of PK-based drug interaction
- Drug-Drug interaction assessment and safety evaluation during drug development
- Translational research in drug interaction risk prediction, clinical relevance evaluation, and risk management
- Natural product-Drug interaction evaluation framework
Biography
Dr. Yu received her MD degree in Preventive Medicine and MS degree in Psychology from Peking University (Beijing, China). She obtained her MS degree (2005) and PhD degree in Biology (2007) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) and then continued her post-doctoral training at Cerep (now Eurofins) followed by UW Medicine. In 2013, Dr. Yu joined UW Drug Interaction Solutions as a Research Scientist and Project Manager. Her role and responsibility have increasingly expanded to manage and supervise the Drug Interaction Database content curation process and the database subscription. In 2019, she was promoted to Associate Director of the program. In July 2020, Dr. Yu joined the faculty of the Department of Pharmaceutics as a Clinical Associate Professor. Dr. Yu’s main research interests relate to drug-drug interaction assessment and safety evaluation of drugs and natural products, especially in drug interaction risk prediction, clinical relevance evaluation, and management.
Selected Publications