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Deanna L. Kroetz, PhD (she/her/hers)

Dean and Professor
Ohio State University

Deanna Kroetz, PhD, is Dean and Professor of The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy. Prior to joining Ohio State in late 2023, she was Professor and Chair of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and the Jere E. Goyan Presidential Chair for the Advancement of Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California San Francisco. She received her B.S. degree in Pharmacy from Ohio State University and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of Washington, under the mentorship of Dr. René Levy. Dr. Kroetz was a PRAT Fellow in the Laboratory of Molecular Carcinogenesis at the National Cancer Institute under the mentorship of Dr. Frank Gonzalez before joining the faculty at the University of California San Francisco. She has received numerous awards, including the AAPS New Investigator Award in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism, the Josephine Failer Award from the Ohio State University Alumni Association, the Leon Goldberg Young Investigator Award and the Rawls Palmer Progress in Medicine Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Distinguished Alumna Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research from the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. Her research aims to understand the mechanisms underlying interindividual variation in drug response and toxicity, with a current focus on chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). She is also studying the role of the multidrug resistance protein MRP4 in immunosensitivity and response to immunotherapies. Dr. Kroetz served as the Director of the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics Graduate Program at UCSF from 2010 – 2019. She is currently the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Clinical and Translational Science.

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