Faculty Expertise

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The expertise of the School of Pharmacy’s faculty members spans numerous areas from Addiction Medicine to Vaccines and Virology.

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Current Expertise Selection: infectious-diseases

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Kyu Lee

Expertise: Cost-effectiveness analysis, Disease burden forecasting, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Optimizing vaccine virus selection, Simulation modeling methods

Telephone: (206) 616-1571

Email: kyueunl@uw.edu

Samuel Arnold

Expertise: Drug Discovery, In vitro to in vivo extrapolationmove -> Physiologically based pharmacokinetic, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Intestinal Surgery and GI Diseases, Microphysiological organ systems, Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Pharmacology, Simulation Modeling, Translational Research

Telephone: (206)-221-3441

Email: slarnold@uw.edu

Website: Linkedin

Gaurav Bhardwaj

Expertise: Blood-brain and blood-csf barriers, Computational Design, Computational Modeling, Drug Discovery, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Molecular Biophysics, Peptide Therapeutics, Structural Biology

Email: gauravb@uw.edu

Website: Bhardwaj Lab

Lauren Cirrincione

Expertise: Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Mechanisms-of-Drug-Interactions (drug metabolism, drug transport), Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Transgender-and-Gender-Diverse-Research, Translational Research

Telephone: 206-685-1864

Email: lc10@uw.edu

Libin Xu

Expertise: Analytical Techniques (cell imaging, mass spectrometry), Central Nervous System (epilepsy, seizure disorders, neurodegeneration, neurodevelopment, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s), Drug Metabolism (cytochrome P450 enzymes), Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Lipid metabolism in human diseases, Neuroscience, Toxicology (medication and environmental compounds)

Telephone: (206) 543-1080

Email: libinxu@uw.edu

Website: Xu Lab

Brian Werth

Expertise: Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Translational Research

Telephone: (206) 685-2302

Email: bwerth@uw.edu

Website: PubMed

Andy Stergachis

Expertise: Global Health (including: Global Medicines), Health Outcomes, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Medication Safety (Drug Safety), Pharmacoepidemiology, Pharmacovigilance, Practice-based Research, Vaccine Safety

Telephone: (206) 221-0703

Email: stergach@uw.edu

Website: Global Medicines Program

Kelly Lee

Expertise: Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Mechanisms-of-Drug-Interactions (drug metabolism, drug transport), Vaccines and Virology (including: influenza, measles, chicken pox)

Telephone: (206) 616-3972

Email: kklee@uw.edu

Website: Lee Lab

Shiu-Lok Hu

Expertise: Biotechnology, Immunization and Vaccination, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Translational Research, Vaccines and Virology (including: influenza, measles, chicken pox)

Telephone: 206-616-9764

Email: hus@uw.edu

Website: NCBI

Rodney JY Ho

Expertise: Biotechnology, Computational Modeling, Drug Metabolism (cytochrome P450 enzymes), HIV and AIDSmove -> Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship), Long-acting therapeutics, Long-Acting Therapeutics for Chronic Diseasesmove -> Drug-Formulation, Mass Spectrometrymove -> Analytical techniques, Mechanisms-of-Drug-Interactions (drug metabolism, drug transport), Nanomedicine (Nanotechnology and nanomedicine for disease prevention and treatment), Oncology, Pharmacokinetics-Pharmacodynamics(PKPD), Systems Pharmacology, Targeted (drug-combination) therapy, Targeted Drug Deliverymove -> Drug Formulation

Telephone: (206) 543-9434

Email: rodneyho@uw.edu

Douglas Black

Expertise: Infectious Diseases (HIV/AIDS, bacterial drug resistance, antimicrobial stewardship)

Telephone: (206) 685-0941

Email: dblack@uw.edu