Categories: Research

Five School of Pharmacy trainees earn honors from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Tue Dec 14, 2021
Round, oval, and oblong pills
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PhD students and postdoctoral researchers earn the 2022 Presidential Trainee Award

Map of protein systems reveals new targets for cancer treatment

Thu Dec 9, 2021
A branching network of protein systems
Krogan Lab

A birds-eye depiction of the findings from the Quantitative Biosciences Institute’s recent work on cancer. Each node represents a protein system and darker-colored nodes are more likely to be involved in cancer.

Scientists at the UCSF Quantitative Biosciences institute developed a new approach for understanding cancer and applied it to breast cancer and cancers of the neck and head

Burchard delivers Faculty Research Lecture in Clinical Science

Mon Nov 15, 2021
Burchard
Elisabeth Fall

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH, delivered the 20th Annual Faculty Research Lecture in Clinical Science on November 2.

Greener freezers for a greener future

Wed Nov 10, 2021
Laboratory bottles and boxes covered in frost in a freezer
Susan Merrell

Samples and reagents in an ultra-low temperature freezer in the laboratory of Adam Abate, PhD, at the UCSF Mission Bay campus. A recent effort led by UCSF Supply Chain Management’s Dean Shehu and School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, replaced 43 of the campus’s least-efficient freezers.

The UCSF School of Pharmacy and Supply Chain Management work to halve the carbon footprint of ultra-low temperature storage

Giacomini wins 2021 Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award

Wed Nov 3, 2021
Giacomini.
Terrificshot

Kathy Giacomini, PhD

Giacomini earns the highest honor given by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists.

Burchard to deliver UCSF Academic Senate’s 20th Annual Faculty Research Lecture in Clinical Science

Tue Oct 26, 2021
Burchard
Elisabeth Fall

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

Lecture on groundbreaking research in asthma genetics and treatment disparities will broadcast on Zoom on November 2 at 3:30pm

How cells multitask: the magic of molecular switches

Thu Oct 21, 2021
Kortemme
Elisabeth Fall

Tanja Kortemme, PhD

Research unearths new details about the protein networks that keep cells healthy

Bay Area research team wins prize for working prototype of artificial kidney

Thu Sep 30, 2021

The Laboratory for Genomics Research offers Innovation Awards

Tue Sep 14, 2021
CRISPR model being held up in a laboratory
The Laboratory for Genomics Research
The $100,000, one-year awards will support the development of groundbreaking technologies in the field of functional genomics.

The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney

Thu Sep 9, 2021
two blue plates with tubes
The Kidney Project

The Kidney Project’s bioartificial kidney, which was successfully implanted in a preclinical model.

The Kidney Project earned a $650,000 award for a successful demonstration of its artificial kidney

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