Clinical Pharmacology

为了表征给定药剂的临床药理学，我们采取以下逐步方法：开发用于在生物液体中定量的分析方法;药代动力学表征;药代动力学建模以管理未来的给药方案;血浆蛋白结合的评价;肾消除的测定;体外代谢研究以表征所涉及的酶、形成的代谢物和可能的药物-药物相互作用;药效学与疗效和/或毒性相关性的发展;进一步了解个体间差异因素的药物遗传学方法。我们的研究工作主要集中在靶向肿瘤异常生物学的药物（靶向信号转导途径、血管生成抑制剂、细胞周期抑制剂、蛋白激酶抑制剂、肽生长因子拮抗剂的药物）和给予细胞毒性药物的新方法。

To characterize the clinical pharmacology of a given agent we take the following step-wise approach: development of an analytical method for quantitation in biological fluids; characterization of pharmacokinetics; pharmacokinetic modeling to govern future dosing schedules; evaluation of plasma protein binding; determination of renal elimination; in vitro metabolism studies to characterize the enzymes involved, metabolites formed and possible drug-drug interactions; development of pharmacodynamic correlations with efficacy and/or toxicity; pharmacogenetic approaches to further understand factors responsible for interindividual differences. Our research efforts have focused primarily on agents that target the aberrant biology of neoplasms (agents that target signal transduction pathways, angiogenesis inhibitors, cell cycle inhibitors, protein kinase inhibitors, antagonists of peptide growth factors) and on novel ways of administering cytotoxic agents.