Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California, Davis
Davis, California, United States
Dr. Kristin Grimsrud, DVM, PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California Davis. Additionally, she is the Associate Director of Vivaria and Veterinary Care at the UCD Mouse Biology Program and is a clinical researcher at Shriner’s Hospital for Children Northern California. She obtained a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and PhD in Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of California, Davis, and completed a residency in Laboratory Animal Medicine and a postdoc in cardiothoracic surgery with an emphasis in regenerative medicine in large animal models both at UC Davis, as well as doing an long distance fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology with the University of Utah. Her research interests focuses on characterizing individual variation in drug pharmacokinetics in special populations, specifically burn and pediatric patients and development of translational animal models. She has a NIH K01 and Shriner’s Hospital for Children clinical research grant to investigate the impact of pharmacogenetics on fentanyl metabolism and efficacy and develop a genetically modified rat model to further study opioids, tolerance and precision medicine. Her current role at the Mouse Biology Program includes serving as the primary veterinary clinician overseeing the rodent health of the research animals and serves on several NIH consortium grants including the Knockout Mouse Project, the Mutant Mouse Resource and Research Center and the Mutant Mouse Phenotyping Program. She has additional research focus of developing and analyzing precision animal models based on human patient variants, with a specific interest in the CHAMP1 gene and works closely with the Champ1 Research Foundation and CombinedBrain.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.