The Stanford-South Africa Pharmacogenomics Course
The Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics (SSABMI) Training Program expands teaching, training, and research opportunities for individuals interested in the application of informatics technologies to problems in biomedical research. The program is a partnership between the University of the Western Cape, the University of Cape Town, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, and Stanford University. Please see the Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics Program web site for more details.
As part of this program, two members of the PharmGKB team -- Russ B. Altman, M.D., Ph.D. and Caroline Thorn, Ph.D. -- presented a course on Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics. A list of the topics covered is given below, with downloadable versions of the slides used for each talk.
The following are PDF files:
By Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD
- Introduction to Pharmacogenomics
- Approaches to Pharmacogenomic Studies
- Pathways of Drug Metabolism and Action
- Drug Interactions and Adverse Drug Reactions
- Drug Discovery and Validation
- Clinical Setting of Pharmacogenomics
- Pharmacology: Basic Principles
- Building the PharmGKB: A Web Tool for Pharmacogenomics
- Technical Issues for PharmGKB
- Ethical Issues for Pharmacogenomics
- The Published Literature as a Data Source for PGx
By Caroline Thorn, PhD
- Human Polymorphisms
- Classical Pharmacogenetics
- Non-classical Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics
- Methods for Genomic Variation Discovery & Genotyping
- Methods for Molecular, Cellular and Clinical Phenotypes & Data Exchange
- Cancer Pharmacogenomics
- Pharmacogenomics and Cardiovascular Health
- Pharmacogenomics and HIV
By Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD
Get the DVD!
A set of DVDs of the live presentations of the Pharmacogenomics course is also available.