
Janel Long-Boyle
University of California San Francisco, USA
Biography
Janel Long-Boyle is a Translational Scientist with research interests that include pediatric cancer therapeutics, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, and clinical trial design. The majority of her research resides within the complex setting of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and focused around chemotherapeutic and immunosuppressive agents used in the preparative regimens of pediatric HCT and gene therapy. More recently, her work aims to facilitate the adoption of population pharmacokinetic models into routine clinical practice to improve patient care. Professionally, she has an established clinical pharmacy practice within the UCSF Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Service. She also directs an advanced clinical pharmacology consultation service utilized by members of the UCSF Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant, Immunology and Oncology Services as well as many external clinical centers worldwide.