- Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1989
- Ph.D., Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1987
- BS, Biochemistry, University of California at Davis, 1982
Dr. Giachelli is the Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Chair in Bioengineering. She also teaches several graduate courses each year. She has received several awards and honors including the Jack W. Coburn Lectureship (Amer. Soc. of Nephrology, 2011), Elected Fellow (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, 2011), Advances in Mineral Metabolism Investigator Award (2003), and American Heart Association Established Investigator Award (1996-2001).