The Right Dose: How Pharmacy Researchers Are Making Medicine More Precise

In the pediatric bone marrow transplant clinic at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco, clinicians are tasked with treating young patients suffering from debilitating illnesses who come in with clinical profiles that often do not match the standardized dosing protocols typically designed from adult patients. For example, an underweight 6-month-old with impaired kidney function would have likely developed irreversible brain toxic