Yan Gong Whisler
Research Assistant Professor
Yan Gong, Ph.D., is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Florida (UF) College of Pharmacy and the UF Center for Pharmacogenomics Genotyping Core Laboratory. Dr. Gong received a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics in 2004 from Department of Pharmaceutics, College of Pharmacy at UF. She also obtained a Master’s Degree in Statistics in 2003 from UF Department of Statistics. Before joining the UF faculty in 2005, she completed one year of post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Pharmacogenomics at the UF Center for Pharmacogenomics.
Dr. Gong's research focuses on cardiovascular drug pharmacogenomics and disease-gene association that may be relevant to pharmacogenomics, and the influence of ethnicity on pharmacogenomics. She specializes in clinical trial design and analysis for Pharmacogenomics associations. The majority of her research centers around hypertension and cardiovascular adverse outcomes, with a focus on proteins/genes that are drug targets and receptors and their impact on disease and drug response. Dr. Gong is also collaborating with investigators in College of Dentistry, College of Medicine and the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center on the Pharmacogenomics and Pharmacokinetics related to bisphosphonate-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw.
