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Jaysón Davidson (He/Him)
Ph.D Candidate at University of California San Francisco
Jaysón Davidson is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics program at University of California San Francisco (UCSF). At UCSF, he is a member of Dr. Atul Butte’s lab, where he works with Electronic Health Records to answer questions in the context of clinical disease. In the lab, he intends to develop methods to effectively stratify the differences in disease and drug response outcomes between populations with different social determinants to improve overall healthcare quality and equity. Jaysón primarily studies treatment utilization, and health outcomes of Type 2 Diabetes patients that are treated within the UC-Health system. At UCSF, Jaysón has been selected as a UCSF-Stanford FDA CERSI Diversity scholar, NIGMS-IMSD program affiliate, and UCSF BE-STEM Co-president. Outside of UCSF, Jaysón is the social media chair and E-Board Member of BlackinChem 501(c)3. Alongside his accomplishments and leadership positions, he works diligently on developing collaborations to answer clinical questions that directly affects people in his community to help create more equitable healthcare quality & access. More importantly, Jaysón works on communicating his science in a way that is digestible so that the clinical importance of his research can be understand outside of the medical community.Prior to UCSF, Jaysón was a NIH-PREP post-baccalaureate scholar at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) where he carried out a gene-editing project for the treatment of Catecholaminergic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT) in an animal model. Furthermore, Davidson's background includes research on structural studies of a short-chain reductase from a bacterium Paraburkholderia Xenovorans which resulted in a first-author publication at Hampton University where he earned his B.S. in Biochemistry. At Hampton University, Jaysón was intitiated into the Beta Chi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. while playing Division I football and leading the team as captain.
August 2020 — Present
· 4 Years 3 Months
San Francsico, CA
Graduate Student Thesis work to understand the impact of demographics and socioeconomic parameters on treatment selection and health outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes. I utilize Electronic Health Records and de-identified data from the University of California Health Data Warehouse to identify and target health disparities in the state of California.
September 2021 — September 2023
· 2 Years
Remote
Discuss major business/collaboration opportunities, seek organizational partnerships, strategized effective social media layout, Content Creation
June 2019 — July 2020
· 1 Year 1 Month
Houston, TX
Gap year in between graduate school and bachelors to conduct research on Gene Editing Treatment of Catecholaminergic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT). The skills I learned were research design, synthesis, AAV packaging of plasmids for gene editing, aseptic surgical techniques, tissue imaging, bacterial transformation, and plasmid cloning.
May 2018 — August 2018
· 3 Months
New York, NY
Organized seminars, mentored children, took MPH courses, and conducted a research study on Type II Diabetes Health Disparities in African American and Latinx Women in New York, NY.
December 2017 — May 2018
· 5 Months
Hampton, VA
During this research project I used Pymol software, literature research, structural analysis, collaboration with the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases (SSGCID). We published a paper titled: "Structural Studies of a short-chain reductase from Paraburkholderia Xenovorans".
May 2016 — August 2017
· 1 Year 3 Months
Washington, DC
Completed a full-scale study on the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) standards of small spaces in the intermediate stage of the D5 missile
University of California San Francisco
PhD in Pharmaceutical Science & Pharmacogenomics
August 2020 — June 2026
Activities and Societies
Black Excellence in STEM, UCSF-Stanford FDA CERSI Program, BlackinChem 501(c)3
Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships
UCSF-Stanford FDA CERSI Diversity Scholar, NIGMS-IMSD Program Fellow
Bachelor's in Biochemistry
August 2015 — May 2019
Activities and Societies
Football Team, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., Beta Kappa Chi National Science Honors Society
Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships
DoD Navy Engineering Scholarship, Dean’s List
🫂 Mentorship
Willing to mentor college students interested in science.📖 Grad School Prep
Application Reviews, networking supportBaking
Basketball
Clinical Informatics
Cooking
Entrepreneurship
Exploring other cultures
Healthcare Disparities
Music
Science Communication
Skills
Big data
Data Analysis
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft Word
Project Management
R
machine learning
python
research design