May 2016

Tales of African-American History Found in DNA

Fri May 27, 2016
The New York Times

UCSF researcher receives prestigious gold medal

Wed May 18, 2016
East Bay Times

Majumdar receives ISMRM Gold Medal

Wed May 18, 2016

Sharmila Majumdar, PhD, professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco, has been awarded the 2016 Gold Medal of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM).

Burchard receives Health Equality Award from Thoracic Society

Mon May 16, 2016
Burchard

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH, has received the Innovations in Health Equality Lifetime Achievement Award, bestowed by the American Thoracic Society's Clinicians Advisory Committee and Health Equality Subcommittee.

A peer group of ATS Committee members chose Burchard based on his body of work in supporting health equality over the entire course of his professional career.

Sali and Yee earn Teaching Awards

Mon May 16, 2016

The 2016 winter term Teaching Awards are out, and we are pleased to announce that Andrej Sali, PhD and Sook Wah Yee, PhD have each earned The Apple!

The awards are bestowed based on student evaluations. Both Sali and Yee are multiple-time recipients of this honor, having met or exceeded a score of 4.5 on a scale of 1 to 5, considered outstanding.

Asthma Collaboratory study finds most asthma research may not apply to African American children

Thu May 12, 2016
White and Burchard

Results from the largest single study of the genetic and environmental causes of asthma in African American children suggest that only a tiny fraction of known genetic risk factors for the disease apply to this population.

UC San Francisco limb growth study looks at bats

Sat May 7, 2016
The Mercury News

UCSF School of Pharmacy celebrates Commencement 2016

Fri May 6, 2016

The UCSF School of Pharmacy held its 2016 commencement on May 5 at Louise Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, conferring the doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree on each of the 115 members of the graduating class.

Research: Elusive drug targets; cell demolition enzymes; useful pharmacogenomics info

Thu May 5, 2016
Predicting difficult-to-detect drug binding sites

Most drugs are comprised of small molecules that pass through cell membranes and are designed to bind to much larger protein molecules at exposed concave pockets. But in many disease-associated proteins, these binding sites are difficult to detect. Concave pockets may form only in the immediate presence of small molecules that bind to them (natural ligands or drugs) or are open only for brief periods during protein shape-shifting.

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