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KATHLEEN GIACOMINI, PHD

Professor and Chair, Biopharmaceutical Sciences and Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology, UCSF

CONTACT

kmg@itsa.ucsf.edu
(415) 476-1936 (voice)
(415) 502-4322 (fax)

Box 0446, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0446

additional websites:

Giacomini Faculty Profile

EDUCATION

University of Houston, Houston, TX, B.S., 1973, Pharmacy
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, Ph.D., 1979, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Postdoc, 1979-81, Pharmacology /Clinical Pharmacology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1981-87

Assistant Professor of Pharmacy/ Pharmaceutical Chem. & Pharmacology

1987-91

Associate Professor of Pharmacy/ Pharmaceutical Chem. & Pharmacology

1992-present

Professor of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF

1998-present

Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences

HONORS & AWARDS

1973

Rho Chi, Honorary Pharmacy Fraternity

1983-84

Long Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching, School of Pharmacy, UCSF

1984-85

UCSF Nominee, Recognition Award for Young Scholars, American Association of University Women

1985-86

Distinguished Teaching Award, UCSF, Academic Senate

1990

Leon Goldberg Young Investigator Award, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

1990-94

Member of Pharmacological Science Review Committee; National Institutes of Health (GM)

1990-94

Member of Generic Drugs Advisory Committee; Food and Drug Administration

1992

Recipient, Fogarty International Fellowship; National Institutes of Health

1993

Elected Fellow, American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

1994

UCSF, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for the Advancement of Women and Minorities

1996-97

Vice President, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

1996-97

UCSF, Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women

1999

Recognition Award for Distinguished Achievement of Filipino at UCSF

1999

International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), Pharmaceutical Scientist of the Year

2001

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2001

Keynote Speaker: Gordon Conference on Drug Metabolism

2002

Honored Celebrating Women Faculty

2002

Distinguished Bill Abram's Lectureship

2002

Distinguished Gerhard Levy Lectureship

2002

Speaker: State Legislative Presentation 'The Impact of the Human Genome Pronect on Drug Development and Use: Tailoring Drugs to Individuals'

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Screening a Large Reference Sample to Identify Very Low Frequency Sequence Variants: Comparisons Between Two Genes. C.E. Glatt, J.A. DeYoung, S. Delgado, S.K. Service, K.M. Giacomini, R.H. Edwards, N. Risch, N.B. Freimer Nature Genet. 27 435-438 (2001).

Functional Characteristics and Steroid Hormone-Mediated Regulation of an Organic Cation Transporter in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney Cells. Y. Shu, C.L. Bello, L.M. Mangravite, B. Feng,, K.M. Giacomini, J. Pharmacol Exp. Ther., 299(1) 392-398 (2001).

Polymorphisms in a Human Kidney Xenobiotic Tansporter, OCT2, Exhibit Altered Function. M.K. Leabman, C.C. Huang, M. Kawamoto, S.J. Johns, D. Stryke, T.E. Ferrin, J. DeYoung, T.Taylor, A.G. Clark, I. Herskowitz, K.M. Giacomini on behalf of the Phamacogenetics of Membrane Transporters Investigators. Pharmacogenetics 12:395-405 (2002).

Specificity of Human and Rat Orthologs of the Concentrative Nucleoside Transporters, SPNT. K.M. Gerstin, M.J. Dresser, K.M. Giacomini. Am. J. Physiol Renal 283:F344-9 (2002).

Role of Aromatic Transmembrane Residues of the Organic Anion Transporter, rOAT3. B. Feng,, Y. Shu, and K.M. Giacomini. Biochemistry 41:8941-7 (2002).

Interactions of n-Tetraalkylammonium Compounds and Biguanides with a Human Renal Organic Cation Transporter (hOCT2). M.J. Dresser, G. Xiao, M.K. Leabman, A.T. Gray, K.M. Giacomini. Pharm.Res. 19(8), 1243-46 (2002).

Snp Analysis and Presentation in the Pharmacogenetics of Membrane Transporters Project. D. Stryke, CC Huang, M. Kawamoto, SJ Johns, EJ Carlson, JA DeYoung, MK Leabman, I. Herskowitz, KM Giacomini, TE Ferrin. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 535-547 (2003).

Sorting of Rat SPNT in Renal Epithelium is Independent of N-Glycosylation. LM. Mangravite, K.M. Giacomini. Pharm. Res. 20:319-23 (2003).

Localization of Human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporters, hENT1 and hENT2, in Renal Epithelial Cells. L.M. Mangravite, G. Xiao, and K.M. Giacomini. Am. J. Physiol Renal Physiol 284:F902-10 (2003)

Natural Variation in Human Membrane Transporter Genes Reveals Evolutionary and Functional Constraints. M.K. Leabman, C.C. Huang, J. DeYoung, E.J. Carlson, T. Taylor, M. de la Cruz, S.J. Johns, D. Stryke, M. Kawamoto, T. J. Urban, D.L. Kroetz, T.E. Ferrin, A.G. Clark, N. Risch, I. Herskowtiz, K.M. Giacomini. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100:5896-901 (2003).

Evolutionary Conservation Predicts Function of Variants of the Human Organic Cation Transporter, OCT1. Y. Shu, M.K. Leabman, B. Feng, L.M. Mangravite, C.C. Huang, D. Stryke, M. Kawamoto, S.J. Johns, J. DeYoung, E. Carlson, T.E. Ferrin, I. Herskowitz, K.M. Giacomini. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100:5902-07 (2003).

Functional Characterization in Yeast of Genetic Variants in the Human Equilibrative Nucleoside Transporter, ENT1. D.H. Osato, C.C. Huang, M. Kawamoto, S.J. Johns, D. Stryke, J. Wang, T.E. Ferrin, I. Herskowitz, K.M. Giacomini. Pharmacogenetics 13:297-301(2003).

PharmGKB Update: I. Genetic Variants of the Organic Cation Transporter 2 (OCT2, SLC22A2). M.K. Leabman, C. Huang, D. Stryke, S. Johns, M. Kawamoto, T. Ferrin, J. DeYoung, T. Taylor, M. Cruz, I. Herskowitz, and K.M. Giacomini. Pharmacol Rev 55: 399, (2003).

Estimating the Contribution of Genes and Environment to Variation in Renal Drug Clearance. M.K. Leabman and K.M. Giacomini. Pharmacogenetics 13:581-584 (2003).

Nucleoside Transporters in the Disposition and Targeting of Nucleoside Analogs in the Kidney. L.M. Mangravite, I. Badagnani, and K.M. Giacomini, Europeon Journal of Pharmacology 479:269-281 (2003).

The Concentrative Nucleoside Transporter Family, SLC28. J.H. Gray, R. Owen, K.M. Giacomini, Eur J Physiol 447:728-734 (2004)

Functional and Genetic Diversity in the Concentrative Nucleoside Transporter, CNT1, in Human Populations. J.H. Gray, L.M. Mangravite, R.P. Owen, T.J. Urban, W. Chan, ElJ. Carlson, C.C. Huang, M. Kawamoto, S.J. Johns, D. Stryke, T.E. Ferrin, and K.M. Giacomini, Mol Pharmacol 65:512-519 (2004).

Haplotype Structure and Ethnic-Specific Allele Frequencies at the OCTN Locus: Implications for the Genetics of Crohn Disease. T.J. Urban, N. Risch, K.M. Giacomini, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Journal (Accepted) 2004.

2/1/05

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