March 2017

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 37th year in a row

Mon Mar 27, 2017

For the 37th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States. School researchers were awarded $28.2 million in grants during NIH’s 2016 fiscal year, from October 1, 2015 to September 30, 2016.

Among the top-funded researchers was Kathy Giacomini, PhD, a faculty member in the School’s department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences.

Black Genes Matter

Tue Mar 14, 2017

Oakland Magazine

Update from the Dean - March 2017

Wed Mar 15, 2017

Nation debates possibility of dramatically new directions for health care coverage, science funding, immigration, education; Revealing malaria/HIV drug interactions in children; Decreasing cancer drug toxicity while increasing dose; Engineering safer opioids; Evidence for comprehensive medication management; Medicare Part D as a learning model for pharmacy education—impact 10 years out; New genetic insights into diabetes drug response; Annotating the ‘dark genome’; Epigenetics of ethnicity; New

Sandra Salazar

Analyst II

I support Professor Esteban G. Burchard, M.D.,M.P.H. I facilitate, coordinate and support all study recruitment and research activities; manage study databases and facilitate collaboration agreements for the Asthma Collaboratory lab.