Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Di WU

Biography

Dr. Di Wu is a Senior Research Associate in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and Guest Professor at Central South University.  She serves as Clinical Investigator at Kinetic Modeling and Simulation core of University of Pennsylvania (UPenn)/CHOP Clinical and Translation Science Award supported by US NIH. She received her B.S. in Pharmacy (1992) and M.S. in Biopharmaceutics & Pharmaceutical Analysis from China Pharmaceutical University (1995) and Ph.D. in Pharmacognosy in Michigan State University (2001).  She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Clinical and Preclinical Pharmacology at Ohio State University (2005).  She published nearly 50 publications and conference abstracts, and serves as a reviewer for five journals (e.g. Journal of Clinical Pharmacology), editorial board member of Journal of AIDS and Clinical Research and Associate Editor of Pharmaceutica Analytica Acta. She was elected to Fellow of Clinical Pharmacology by American College of Clinical Pharmacology in 2009.

Research Interest

Translational medical research
Clinical trial design, operation, data analysis, and report
Pediatric pharmacotherapy
Disease mechanisms
Natural products chemistry (Pharmacognosy)
Individualized therapy
Pharmacometrics
Systems biology
Quantitative and clinical pharmacology
Therapeutic drug monitoring
Regulatory affairs
Therapeutic and drug development & discovery fields
Cardiovascular diseases
HIV infection
Neonatal abstinence syndrome
Central nervous system diseases
Fungal infection and prophylactics in young infants
Osteoporosis
Cancer cachexia
Leishmaniasis and African trypanosomiasis.