School of Pharmacy leads in LivingGreen certifications
The School’s Dean’s Office received Platinum LivingGreen certification for reducing waste, energy, and water usage.
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For UCSF graduate, DACA gives a chance to fight cancer
Ku earned his PhD this spring in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG) from UC San Francisco.
The Kidney Project earns KidneyX award to make home dialysis better for patients
A team led by Shuvo Roy, PhD, recently won an award that will fund the development of an easy-to-use, safe, and effective home dialysis system.
School reflects on legacy of achievement at Alumni Weekend 2019
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni celebrated the School of Pharmacy's long history of achievement in the discovery and clinical sciences, and clinical practice, at Alumni Weekend 2019.
Training computers to think more like scientists
Michael Keiser, PhD, and Kangway Chuang, PhD, want to use machine learning to speed the pace of drug discovery. By digging into the work of another lab, the pair realized how machine learning could lead scientists astray—and came up with methods to avoid its worst pitfalls.
Kortemme and Desai honored at annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
School of Pharmacy faculty members Tanja Kortemme and Tejal Desai both received honors at the annual meeting of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
2019 Koda-Kimble Seed Award supports School of Pharmacy’s boldest ideas
The 2019 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation will fund nine bold research projects, ranging from studies of the molecular underpinnings of cancer to focus groups designed to prepare PharmD students for experiential learning.
Desai named the director of new UCSF bioengineering initiative
The Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) program is designed to inspire collaborations in bioengineering research.
School of Pharmacy tops pharmacy schools in NIH funding for 39th straight year
Among all U.S. pharmacy schools, the UCSF School of Pharmacy earned the most research funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling nearly $29 million dollars that will support studies spanning the basic to the clinical sciences.
USP/UCSF fellowship to support research in the quality and safety of medical products
A new fellowship, funded jointly by UCSF-Stanford CERSI and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), will support research into the inactive components of medications, which are known as excipients.
Gift of $500,000 honors Jere E. Goyan, late UCSF School of Pharmacy dean
The endowment will provide funds for a recipient to focus on delivering breakthroughs in therapeutics-related research, education, and patient care.
CRISPR-based obesity treatment shows promise for other diseases
A recent study by Nadav Ahituv, PhD, showed that obesity caused by a gene mutation could be treated in animal models.
Fraser appointed to Bowes Biomedical Investigator Program
Fraser developed several new tools for creating maps of macromolecules, a critical first step for finding new drugs.
Combination drug therapy overcomes drug-resistant lung cancer in the lab
Many types of lung cancer thwart even the most targeted of therapies due to drug resistance, but a group of UCSF scientists led by Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD, have now shown that adding a second drug into treatment regimens can overcome this resistance in lab-grown, lung cancer cell lines.
Research points to individualized treatments for curing TB
Tuberculosis is usually treated with a six month regimen of daily antibiotics, but millions of patients do not recover from the disease during treatment. Rada Savic’s team showed that adjusting the duration of this regimen based on disease severity could lead to better outcomes.
School of Pharmacy emeriti Kollman, Kuntz, and Langridge honored with UCSF Medal
Drug discovery today begins with computation rather than test tube experimentation. Three School of Pharmacy faculty emeriti, Robert Langridge, Irwin “Tack” Kuntz, and the late Peter Kollman, were awarded the UCSF Medal for creating computational tools for drug discovery that are now used worldwide.
Update from the Dean – November 2018
Curriculum transformation, An expanded role, Gaining recognition, Graduate match rate; School of Pharmacy scientists receive UCSF Medal: Founding fathers of drug discovery honored; Beyond drugs, Two artificial pancreas projects, Bringing prosthetics to patients; Beyond drugs, Two artificial pancreas projects, Bringing prosthetics to patients; Advancing the fight against cancer, Combining drug therapies, Mapping cells; In memoriam: Robert D. Gibson
A lifetime of pharmacy and advocacy