Features and Publications, Fall 2023

Ruben Abagyan, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Thyroid hyperplasia and neoplasm adverse events associated with GLP-1 receptor agonists in FDA Adverse Event Reporting System
  November 24, 2023 | MedRxiv

 

Jacinda (JAM) Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD, MPH, AAHIVP (Faculty)

• Demographic representation among speakers at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) spring conferences
  October 2, 2023 | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

• Targeting Dalbavancin Inoculum Effect: Adjunctive Single Dose of Daptomycin
  October 5, 2023 | Infectious Diseases and Therapy

• Pharmacists Are Being Recognized for Their Contributions to the Field of Infectious Disease
  October 12, 2023 | Pharmacy Times

• Striving for equity in academia: embracing the power of no in decision-making
  October 20, 2023 | FEMS Microbiology Letters

• The Implications of Data Aggregation on Propagating Racial and Ethnic Disparities within the Healthcare Landscape: Actionable Recommendations and Considerations for Pharmacists
  October 21, 2023 | Journal of the American Pharmacists Association

• A Winter of Low COVID Vaccination Will Probably Seem Fine
  November 2, 2023 | The Atlantic

• Race, Research, and Health Care Associated Infections
  November 14, 2023 | Stories of Care

• New Faculty Reshape the Meaning of Inclusive Research, Teaching and Service
  November 28, 2023 | UC San Diego Today

• Executive Summary: State-of-the-Art Review: Frame Shift—Focusing on Harm Reduction and Shared Decision Making for People Who Use Drugs Hospitalized With Infections
  November 29, 2023 | Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Frame Shift: Focusing on Harm Reduction and Shared Decision Making for People Who Use Drugs Hospitalized With Infections
  November 29, 2023 | Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Examining racial and social vulnerability disparities in the outpatient treatment of uncomplicated cystitis at a Southern California Academic Hospital
  November 29, 2023 | Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology

• Utilization of a “Diversity Index” to Assess Racial Diversity of US School of Pharmacy Graduates
  December 2023 | American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

• Infectious Inequity: How the Gut Microbiome and Social Determinants of Health May Contribute to Clostridioides difficile Infection Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
  December 5, 2023 | Clinical Infectious Diseases

• Exploring the intersectionality of racism and sexual/gender minority health: A call to action for health-system pharmacists
  December 26, 2023 | American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

 

Maher Alhaja, PharmD (Alumni - Class of 2021)

• Cardiac Safety of Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin After Conventional Doxorubicin Exposure in Patients With Sarcoma and Breast Cancer
  September 7, 2023 | Cureus

 

Rabia Atayee, Pharm.D., BCPS, APh, FAAHPM (Associate Dean)

• Use of Fosaprepitant for Management of Suspected Antimicrobial-Associated Nausea: A Case Report
  November 20, 2023 | Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy

• Development and validation of a performance-based palliative care assessment tool for student pharmacists
  December 29, 2023 | Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning

 

Linda Awdishu, Pharm.D., MAS (Faculty)

• Sirolimus Long-Term Tolerability and Impact on Kidney Function in Lung Transplantation: A Single-Center Experience
  October 25, 2023 | ScienceDirect

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

• CRRT Trials of the Week: RENAL & IDEAL-ICU References
  October 31, 2023 | Pharmacy to Dose: The Critical Care Podcast

• Dose Adjustment Considerations in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: Dr Linda Awdishu
  November 3, 2023 | American Journal of Managed Care

• Presenters Have Hope for the Future of Trial Design in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease
  November 3, 2023 | American Journal of Managed Care

• Subtle Changes in Tacrolimus Levels Have an Impact on Early Donor-Specific Antibodies in Kidney Transplantation
  November 9, 2023 | NATCO

• Moving toward a contemporary classification of drug-induced kidney disease
  November 9, 2023 | Critical Care

 

Carlo Ballatore, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• A microtubule stabilizer ameliorates protein pathogenesis and neurodegeneration in mouse models of repetitive traumatic brain injury
  September 13, 2023 | Science Translational Medicine

• Targeted Reversible Covalent Modification of a Noncatalytic Lysine of the Krev Interaction Trapped 1 Protein Enables Site-Directed Screening for Protein–Protein Interaction Inhibitors
  October 9, 2023 | ACS Publications

 

Brookie Best, PharmD, M.A.S. (Dean)

• Cannabidiol Exposure Through Maternal Marijuana Use: Predictions in Breastfed Infants
  September 21, 2023 | Clinical Pharmacokinetics

• Efficacy, Safety, and Tolerability of Doravirine/Lamivudine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Fixed-Dose Combination Tablets in Adolescents Living With HIV: Results Through Week 96 from IMPAACT 2014
  October 10, 2023 | Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

• Pharmacokinetics and safety of first-line tuberculosis drugs rifampin, isoniazid, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide during pregnancy and postpartum: results from IMPAACT P1026s
  October 26, 2023 | Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

• Brief Report: Dolutegravir Plasma Protein Binding and Unbound Concentrations During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  December 1, 2023 | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

 

Mark Bounthavong, Pharm.D., Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Co-occurring implementation strategies: The effects of academic detailing for opioid use disorder campaign on the advancing pharmacological treatments for opioid use disorder (ADaPT-OUD) study
  September 14, 2023 | Implementation Research and Practice

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Katharina Brandl, R.Ph., Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Using fourth-year medical students as academic coaches
  September 15, 2023 | Medical Education

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Conor Caffrey, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Targeted Reversible Covalent Modification of a Noncatalytic Lysine of the Krev Interaction Trapped 1 Protein Enables Site-Directed Screening for Protein–Protein Interaction Inhibitors
  October 9, 2023 | ACS Publications

• Human schistosomiasis in Nigeria: present status, diagnosis, chemotherapy, and herbal medicines
  October 18, 2023 | Parasitology Research

 

Edmund Capparelli, Pharm.D. (Faculty)

• Cannabidiol Exposure Through Maternal Marijuana Use: Predictions in Breastfed Infants
  September 21, 2023 | Clinical Pharmacokinetics

• Pharmacokinetics and safety of first-line tuberculosis drugs rifampin, isoniazid, ethambutol, and pyrazinamide during pregnancy and postpartum: results from IMPAACT P1026s
  October 26, 2023 | Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

• Brief Report: Dolutegravir Plasma Protein Binding and Unbound Concentrations During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  December 1, 2023 | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

• HIV-1 reservoir size after neonatal antiretroviral therapy and the potential to evaluate antiretroviral-therapy-free remission (IMPAACT P1115): a phase 1/2 proof-of-concept study
  December 4, 2023 | The Lancet HIV

 

Jia Chen (Student - Class of 2026)

• Serotones Hits a High Notes
  November 14, 2023 | UC San Diego Today

 

Anjan Debnath, Ph.D., M.A.S. (Faculty)

• High-Throughput Screen of Microbial Metabolites Identifies F₁F_O ATP Synthase Inhibitors as New Leads for Naegleria fowleri Infection
  November 9, 2023 | ACS Publications

• Antigiardial and antiamebic activities of fexinidazole and its metabolites: new drug leads for giardiasis and amebiasis
  December 8, 2023 | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

• Miconazole-like Scaffold is a Promising Lead for Naegleria fowleri-Specific CYP51 Inhibitors
  December 12, 2023 | ACS Publications

 

Pieter Dorrestein, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Ex vivo study of molecular changes of stained teeth following hydrogen peroxide and peroxymonosulfate treatments
  September 28, 2023 | Scientific Reports

• Using Multidimensional Separations to Distinguish Isomeric Amino Acid–Bile Acid Conjugates and Assess Their Presence and Perturbations in Model Systems
  October 5, 2023 | ACS Publications

• Reverse metabolomics for the discovery of chemical structures from humans
  December 5, 2023 | Nature

• Reverse Metabolomics: New Method Finds Biomarker for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  December 5, 2023 | UC San Diego Today

• Open access repository-scale propagated nearest neighbor suspect spectral library for untargeted metabolomics
  December 20, 2023 | Nature Communications

 

Lannie Duong, PharmD (Alumni - Class of 2009)

• CVS pharmacists in Kansas City stage walkouts
  September 27, 2023 | Drug Store News

 

Sylvia Evans, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Cardiac Pericyte Diversity in Infarct Remodeling: Not Just Vascular Support Cells?
  September 12, 2023 | Circulation

 

Ashley Feist, Pharm.D. (Faculty)

• Sirolimus Long-Term Tolerability and Impact on Kidney Function in Lung Transplantation: A Single-Center Experience
  October 25, 2023 | ScienceDirect

• Difference in immunosuppressant dose requirement when transitioning to isavuconazole from other azoles in thoracic transplant recipients
  December 7, 2023 | Transplant Infectious Disease

 

Fleur M. Ferguson, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• PROTACs reach clinical development in inflammatory skin disease
  November 13, 2023 | Nature Medicine

• A biotin targeting chimera (BioTAC) system to map small molecule interactomes in situ
  December 4, 2023 | Nature Communications

 

William Gerwick, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Artificial intelligence for natural product drug discovery
  September 11, 2023 | Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

• Covalent Macrocyclic Proteasome Inhibitors Mitigate Resistance in Plasmodium falciparum
  September 15, 2023 | ACS Publications

• Lake Avernus Has Turned Red: Bioindicator Monitoring Unveils the Secrets of “Gates of Hades”
  December 13, 2023 | Toxins

• Open access repository-scale propagated nearest neighbor suspect spectral library for untargeted metabolomics
  December 20, 2023 | Nature Communications

 

Michael K. Gilson, Ph.D., M.D. (Faculty)

• The temperature-dependence of host-guest binding thermodynamics: experimental and simulation studies
  October 13, 2023 | Chemical Science

• The Free Energy Density of a Fluid and its Role in Solvation and Binding
  October 26, 2023 | ChemRxiv

• Host–guest systems for the SAMPL9 blinded prediction challenge: phenothiazine as a privileged scaffold for binding to cyclodextrins
  December 21, 2023 | Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

• Tuning Potential Functions to Host–Guest Binding Data
  December 26, 2023 | Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

 

David J. Gonzalez, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Meditation-induced bloodborne factors as an adjuvant treatment to COVID-19 disease
  October 2023 | Brain, Behavior, & Immunity - Health

 

Laura Hart, Pharm.D., M.S., BCPS, BCGP, FASCP (Faculty)

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Inmaculada (Inma) Hernandez, PharmD., Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Medicare Part D Coverage of Anti-obesity Medications: a Call for Forward-Looking Policy Reform
  September 15, 2023 | The New York Times

• Nonfederal average manufacturer price to estimate savings generated by minimum discounts under the Inflation Reduction Act
  October 27, 2023 | Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy

• Individual and social determinants of adherence to sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor therapy: A trajectory analysis
  October 27, 2023 | Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy

• Trends in Proportion of Medicare Part D Claims Subject to 340B Discounts, 2013-2020
  November 17, 2023 | JAMA Network

• Has the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Implicitly Adopted a Value Framework for Medicare Drug Price Negotiations?
  December 2023 | Value Health

• ASHP and ASHP Foundation Pharmacy Forecast 2024: Strategic Planning Guidance for Pharmacy Departments in Hospitals and Health Systems
  December 4, 2023 | American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

• Medicare is Overpaying for Generic Drugs
  December 5, 2023 | UC San Diego Today

• US drug shortages are forcing ‘impossible choices’ for Americans, experts tell Senate committee
  December 5, 2023 | CNN Health

• Drug Shortages: Examining Supply Challenges, Impacts, and Policy Solutions from a Federal Health Program Perspective
  December 5, 2023 | US Senate Committee on Finance Hearing

• Ron Wyden Leads Senate Finance Committee Hearing On Drug Shortages
  December 5, 2023 | Forbes Breaking News (YouTube)

• Reimbursement to Pharmacies for Generic Drugs by Medicare Part D Sponsors
  December 5, 2023 | JAMA Network

• COVID-19 pandemic and initiation of treatment for atrial fibrillation: a nationwide analysis of claims data
  December 8, 2023 | BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

• Medicare Drug Price Negotiation: The Complexities of Selecting Therapeutic Alternatives for Estimating Comparative Effectiveness
  December 13, 2023 | Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy

• A primer on brand-name prescription drug reimbursement in the United States
  December 28, 2023 | Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy

• A Retrospective Cohort Study of the 2018 Angiotensin Receptor Blocker Recalls and Subsequent Drug Shortages in Patients With Hypertension
  December 29, 2023 | Journal of the American Heart Association

 

Vivian Hook, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Emerging evidence for dysregulated proteome cargoes of tau-propagating extracellular vesicles driven by familial mutations of tau and presenilin
  November 21, 2023 | Extracellular Vesicles and Circulating Nucleic Acids

• Dysregulation of Human Juvenile Huntington’s Disease Brain Proteomes in Cortex and Putamen Involves Mitochondrial and Neuropeptide Systems
  December 15, 2023 | Journal of Huntingtons Disease

 

Stephen Kang (Student - Class of 2024)

• Characterization of direct oral anticoagulants use in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
  November 6, 2023 | Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

 

Jamie Kneebusch, Pharm.D., BCPS, BCPP (Faculty, Alumni - Class of 2016)

• Impact of Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacists on improving urinary tract infection antibiotic appropriateness at an acute psychiatric hospital
  October 2, 2023 | Mental Health Clinician

 

 

Jennifer Le, PharmD, MAS, FIDSA, FCCP, FCSHP (Faculty)

• A Decongestant in Many Cold Medicines Is Ineffective
  September 12, 2023 | Journal of General Internal Medicine

• A Popular Decongestant Doesn't Work. What Does?
  October 4, 2023 | Scientific American

• Chemotherapy in pediatric brain tumor and the challenge of the blood–brain barrier
  November 23, 2023 | Cancer Medicine

 

Kelly C. Lee, Pharm.D., M.A.S., BCPP (Associate Dean)

• Grit, Subjective Happiness, Satisfaction With Life, and Academic Resilience Among Pharmacy and Physical Therapy Students at Two Universities
  October 2023 | American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

• Antidepressant prescribing in transgender and nonbinary individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria and mood or anxiety disorders
  December 1, 2023 | Mental Health Clinician

 

Alex Luli, Pharm.D., BCACP (Faculty)

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Tigran Makunts (Alumni - Class of 2019, Assistant Project Scientist - Abagyan Lab)

• Thyroid hyperplasia and neoplasm adverse events associated with GLP-1 receptor agonists in FDA Adverse Event Reporting System
  November 24, 2023 | MedRxiv

 

James McKerrow, Ph.D., M.D. (Faculty)

• Human schistosomiasis in Nigeria: present status, diagnosis, chemotherapy, and herbal medicines
  October 18, 2023 | Parasitology Research

 

Christina Mnatzaganian, Pharm.D., BCACP, APh (Associate Dean)

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Candis M. Morello, Pharm.D., APh, CDCES, FCSHP, FASHP (Associate Dean)

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Jeremiah D. Momper, Pharm.D., Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Cannabidiol Exposure Through Maternal Marijuana Use: Predictions in Breastfed Infants
  September 21, 2023 | Clinical Pharmacokinetics

• Directed evolution unlocks oxygen reactivity for a nicotine-degrading flavoenzyme
  September 28, 2023 | Nature

• Brief Report: Dolutegravir Plasma Protein Binding and Unbound Concentrations During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  December 1, 2023 | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

 

Bradley S. Moore, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Linking bacterial tetrabromopyrrole biosynthesis to coral metamorphosis
  September 19, 2023 | ISME Communications

• Molecular Forecasting of Domoic Acid during a Pervasive Toxic Diatom Bloom
  November 5, 2023 | bioRxiv

• Biosynthesis of Haloterpenoids in Red Algae via Microbial-like Type I Terpene Synthases
  December 11, 2023 | ACS Publications

 

Jennifer M. Namba, Pharm.D., BCPS (Faculty)

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Jennifer Nguyen (Student - Class of 2026)

• High-Throughput Screen of Microbial Metabolites Identifies F₁F_O ATP Synthase Inhibitors as New Leads for Naegleria fowleri Infection
  November 9, 2023 | ACS Publications

• Miconazole-like Scaffold is a Promising Lead for Naegleria fowleri-Specific CYP51 Inhibitors
  December 12, 2023 | ACS Publications

 

Rosalyn Nguyen (Student - Class of 2024)

• Characterization of direct oral anticoagulants use in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
  November 6, 2023 | Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

 

Victor Nizet, M.D. (Faculty)

• The Parasporal Body of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis: A Unique Phage Capsid-Associated Prokaryotic Insecticidal Organelle
  November 11, 2023 | Biology

• Measuring beta-lactam minimum inhibitory concentrations in Staphylococcus aureus in the clinical microbiology laboratory: pinning the tail on the donkey
  November 15, 2023 | Journal of Clinical Microbiology

• The Group A Streptococcal Vaccine Candidate VAX-A1 Protects against Group B Streptococcus Infection via Cross-Reactive IgG Targeting Virulence Factor C5a Peptidase
  December 3, 2023 | Vaccines

• Exploring Roles of the Polysaccharide Capsule in Pathogenesis of Hypervirulent Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolate Lac-4
  December 20, 2023 | Antibiotics

 

Anthony O’Donoghue, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• A dual-binding magnetic immunoassay to predict spontaneous preterm birth
  September 13, 2023 | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

• A Malassezia pseudoprotease dominates the secreted hydrolase landscape and is a potential allergen on skin
  September 24, 2023 | Biochimie

• Valence-driven colorimetric detection of norovirus protease via peptide-AuNP interactions
  September 25, 2023 | Chemical Communications

 

Nimish Patel, Pharm.D., Ph.D., AAHIVP (Faculty)

• Fluoroquinolone-associated adverse events of interest among hospitalized veterans affairs patients with community-acquired pneumonia who were treated with a fluoroquinolone: A focus on tendonitis, Clostridioides difficile infection, and aortic aneurysm
  September 12, 2023 | Pharmacotherapy

• Influence of the Number, Timing, and Types of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experiences on Residency Matching
  October 29, 2023 | ScienceDirect

 

Sally Rafie, PharmD (Preceptor)

• Pharmacist provision of medication abortion: A pilot study
  December 7, 2023 | Contraception

 

Ila M. Saunders, Pharm.D., BCOP (Faculty)

• Grit, Subjective Happiness, Satisfaction With Life, and Academic Resilience Among Pharmacy and Physical Therapy Students at Two Universities
  October 2023 | American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

• Characterization of direct oral anticoagulants use in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
  November 6, 2023 | Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis

 

Dionicio Siegel, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• Beneficial metabolic effects of PAHSAs depend on the gut microbiota in diet-induced obese mice
  September 29, 2023 | bioRxiv

• Short synthesis of a broadly Reactive, cell permeable serine hydrolase Fluorophosphonate-Alkyne probe
  October 15, 2023 | Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters

• Reverse metabolomics for the discovery of chemical structures from humans
  December 5, 2023 | Nature

 

Raymond Suhandynata, Ph.D., DABCC (Faculty)

• Bacterial antiviral defense pathways encode eukaryotic-like ubiquitination systems
  September 26, 2023 | bioRxiv

• Directed evolution unlocks oxygen reactivity for a nicotine-degrading flavoenzyme
  September 28, 2023 | Nature

 

Casey Tiefenthaler, PharmD (Alumni - Class of 2020)

• Antidepressant prescribing in transgender and nonbinary individuals diagnosed with gender dysphoria and mood or anxiety disorders
  December 1, 2023 | Mental Health Clinician

 

Dong Wang, Ph.D. (Faculty)

• A unified Watson-Crick geometry drives transcription of six-letter expanded DNA alphabets by E. coli RNA polymerase
  December 12, 2023 | Nature Communications

• Enzymes Can't Tell Artificial DNA From the Real Thing
  December 13, 2023 | UC San Diego Today

 

Andrew Willeford, PharmD, PhD, BCCP (Faculty, Alumni - Class of 2019)

• Transitioning Disopyramide to Mavacamten in Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Case Series and Clinical Guide
  September 9, 2023 | ACCP Journals

• Medical Therapies to Improve Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction and Diastolic Function in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  October 2023 | Journals of the American College of Cardiology

 

Elizabeth Winzeler, Ph.D. (Associate Dean)

• Diverse evolutionary pathways challenge the use of collateral sensitivity as a strategy to suppress resistance
  September 22, 2023 | eLife

• Whole-genome surveillance identifies markers of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance and novel genomic regions under selection in Mozambique
  September 26, 2023 | mBio

• Antiplasmodial peptaibols act through membrane directed mechanisms
  November 22, 2023 | Cell Chemical Biology

 

Alice Yuan (Student - Class of 2024)

• High-Throughput Screen of Microbial Metabolites Identifies F₁F_O ATP Synthase Inhibitors as New Leads for Naegleria fowleri Infection
  November 9, 2023 | ACS Publications