Institutional Profile: Jayne Haines Center for Pharmacogenomics and Drug Safety: Educating Future Generations of Healthcare Professionals

Abstract

The Jayne Haines Center for Pharmacogenomics and Drug Safety operates in the Temple University School of Pharmacy and serves as an educational and research facility for professional pharmacy students, graduate students, residents, postdoctoral fellows and faculties. The Center is involved in educational and investigational projects in a setting that includes an inner city research/teaching hospital and the Temple University Schools of Pharmacy, Medicine, Dentistry and Health Professions. The mission of the Haines Center is to facilitate the basic science approach to the problems of pharmacotherapy, and to provide education for future healthcare professionals in the genetics of drug response. With the expanding role of genetic analysis in preventing adverse effects of pharmacotherapy, we are working towards truly personalized pharmacotherapy that fully exploits the advances of modern biomedical science.

Acknowledgements

The staff of the Jayne Haines Center for Pharmacogenomics and Drug Safety are grateful to the Haines family for continuing support of their educational and research efforts. The author thanks P Doukas and the administration of the Temple University School of Pharmacy for the dedicated efforts to implement Pharmacogenomics into the didactic and research programs of the school, and for the total support of the PharmD student laboratory on pharmacogenomics. The author is also grateful to N Krynetskaia and I Calligaro for their help in developing the concept and implementation of the student laboratory exercise.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

The author is an employee of Temple University School of Pharmacy. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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The author is an employee of Temple University School of Pharmacy. The author has no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed. No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.