| William E. Evans, Pharm.D.
Scientific Director, Deputy Director
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee
www.stjude.org
Dr. William Evans received his B.S. and Pharm. D. degrees from the
University of Tennessee (1973, 1974) and spent a sabbatical year
in Prof. Urs Meyer’s laboratory at the University of Basel,
Switzerland, in 1987-88.
Dr. Evans is Scientific Director and Executive Vice President of
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (SJCRH) and First Tennessee
Bank Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Pharmaceutics and Pediatrics
at the University of Tennessee (UT) Colleges of Clinical Pharmacy
and Medicine. He also is Deputy Director of SJCRH. As Scientific
Director, he is the academic leader for all clinical and laboratory
research at the hospital; he also oversees faculty recruitment,
program development, budget planning, and space allocation.
From 1986-2002, Dr. Evans served as the Chair of Pharmaceutical
Sciences at SJCRH and from 1983-1991 he was Chair of the Department
of Clinical Pharmacy at UT.
For the past 25 years, Dr. Evans’ research has focused on
the pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenomics of anticancer agents,
exploring genetic and biochemical mechanisms for inter-individual
differences in drug disposition and response.
A recipient of numerous awards including two MERIT Awards from the
NIH, the Leon Goldberg Award from ASCPT, and the ACCP Therapeutic
Frontiers Lecture Award, Dr. Evans is an elected fellow of AAAS,
AAPS, and ACCP and has held numerous elected offices on various
organizations and boards.
Dr. Evans is on the Editorial Boards of seven scientific and professional
journals, is US Editor of the journal Pharmacogenetics,
and Editor of the textbook Applied Pharmacokinetics: Principles
of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. A member of the Board of Directors
of the Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Evans has published
more than 250 research articles and 30 book chapters and has been
an invited speaker at over 250 universities, research institutes
and international symposia, worldwide. He was elected to the Institute
of Medicine, of the National Academy of Sciences, in 2002.
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