News

Thu Apr 5, 2018
Kathleen B. Kennedy, PharmD ’78, has been named our Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.
Tue Mar 27, 2018

Ten finalists battled for the Grad Slam Championship on 3/22/18. The competition was stiff, the crowd was raucous; but in the end, two BioEs swept the awards.

Yiqi Cao took both 1st Place and the People’s Choice awards for her presentation “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart… Again.” You can see her winning 3-minute...

Mon Mar 12, 2018
A culture of discovery and collaboration among faculty carries potential to “completely shake up their fields of study.”
Wed Mar 7, 2018

“Whole genome sequencing of pharmacogenetic drug response in racially diverse children with asthma” has been published by the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (ARJCCM). “This is a huge win for the NHLBI’s TOPMed program, UCSF, and our lab,” said senior author Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH.

Trans-Omics for...

Thu Mar 1, 2018
A new PharmD curriculum; Implementing new practice opportunities for pharmacists; PharmD students shine in state and national clinical pharmacy competitions; A pioneer in pharmacogenomics; The NIH streak lives on; Improving adverse event reporting and medication therapy protocols; Big-data to cut drug discovery time; Computational approaches...
Tue Feb 27, 2018
The 2018 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation marked its fourth year of funding with the announcement of the research award recipients.
Fri Feb 23, 2018
Babbitt's election as a 2018 ISCB fellow highlights her contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
Thu Feb 15, 2018
Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans shares her perspective on the School’s new PharmD curriculum.
Tue Feb 13, 2018

A new study published in Circulation: Heart Failure shows how bioengineers are teaming up with clinicians to improve patient outcomes.

“The concept behind the device in this paper originated with a bioengineering graduate student as a side project,” says co-author Shuvo Roy, PhD. “And it subsequently led to a strong...