UCSF Drug Product Lab Director to Lecture Today

Joanne Whitney, PharmD, PhD, director of the Drug Product Services Lab (DPSL), will explain why clinical researchers need an academic compounding facility today (Jan. 17). Whitney will talk about the new DPSL facilities and its services from noon to 1 p.m. in room C 130 on the UCSF Parnassus campus. Topics for discussion also include professionalism versus commercialism in drug dosage forms, drug logistics in clinical research and UCSF clinical pharmacy as the repository of compounding expertise for clinical research.