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Tue Feb 4, 2025
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences professor Nadav Ahituv is part of a team of researchers using the gene editing technology CRISPR to deprive tumors of nutrition.
Tue May 1, 2012
Speaking on a White House panel discussing President Obama's just-released Bioeconomy Blueprint, UCSF Vice Chancellor for Research Keith Yamamoto, PhD, cited the implantable bioartificial kidney project led by UCSF bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD, as a prime example of biomedical collaboration with potentially major...
Fri Apr 13, 2012
New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included a half-dozen on-going projects by BTS faculty:
Genetic mutations and liver cancer Xin Chen, PhD Associate adjunct professor Awarded two new grants totaling $351,488 from the National Institute of Alcohol...
Fri Apr 13, 2012
For the 32nd consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy received more research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.
Total grants and contracts awarded to School of Pharmacy researchers during the NIH fiscal year 2011 (running from October 1, 2010 to...
Thu Apr 12, 2012
UCSF bioengineer Tejal Desai, PhD, will receive the 2012 Paul R. Dawson Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) at the group’s annual meeting in July.
The award honors Desai for her contributions to contemporary teaching and scholarship in biotechnology. She is a faculty member...
Mon Apr 9, 2012
The effort led by UCSF bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD, to create an implantable artificial kidney for dialysis patients has been selected as one of the first projects to undergo more timely and collaborative review at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The FDA announced on April 9, 2012 that it had chosen three...
Tue Apr 3, 2012
Computational chemist Brian Shoichet, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy, is the new director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at UCSF.
QB3, with research facilities at UC campuses in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz, has an...
Tue Mar 13, 2012
The UCSF School of Pharmacy continues to rank number 1 among Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) programs in the United States, according to a new, 2012 survey published by U.S. News & World Report.
The survey results appear in the magazine’s 2013 issue of “American Best Graduate Schools,” which appeared online today at the U.S...
Thu Mar 1, 2012
Research: growth over past decade from $17.6 to 43.5 million, Apollonio, Roy, Wells, Center for Quantitative Pharmacology, Quantitative Biosciences Consortium. Faculty: DeGrado, Savic, James, Day, Rice, MacDougall, Fischbach, Huang. Students: Hluhanich, Frear, Gavrilova, Gayle, Tantipinichwong, Vuong, Etemadi. New appointments: Nordberg, Rhode....
Tue Jan 24, 2012
Following the UCSF website's announcement of School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble's June 30, 2012 retirement came comments from leaders at UCSF and beyond. Koda-Kimble, whose 46 years at UCSF began as a PharmD student, became (in 1998) the first female dean of the top-ranked pharmacy school in the nation and the first...