Atuobi Nana Yiadom ’13 (Photo courtesy of University of Minnesota)
University of Minnesota student Atuobi Nana Yiadom ’13 is the first pharmacy student to participate in Mayo Clinic’s summer graduate training program in pharmacokinetics. Yiadom’s interest in precision medicine and a recommendation from a friend led him to the program, which is typically reserved for medical students.
Yiadom graduated from St. Cloud State University in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and psychology and is a doctor of pharmacy candidate at University of Minnesota in 2020.
According to the National Institutes of Health, precision medicine is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person. Rather than a one-size-fits-all approach, precision medicine has the potential to predict which treatments for a particular disease will work best in which groups of people.
As part of his work at Mayo, Yiadom uses software to build physiologically-based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) models and simulations to predict pharmacokinetics behavior of drugs in humans using preclinical data.
