Educates pharmacy professionals and scientists, advances scientific discovery, cares for patients, serves the public, and advocates on the public's behalf. It is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and its Doctor of Pharmacy program is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Pharmaceutical Education.
Sep 7, 2010
Kathy Giacomini, PhD, co-chair of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and an expert in the field of pharmacogenomics, is leading two research projects funded by two grants totaling $15.1 million over the next five years to expand research into how genes affect an individual's response to medication and to strengthen a global network of researchers involved in these efforts. The grants are the largest portion of a $161.3 million total effort by the National Institutes of Health to expand a national collaboration of scientists known as the Pharmacogenomics Research Network with the goal of paving the way for personalized medicine.
UCSF receives $15 million to advance personalized medicine
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Sep 3, 2010
The model for a surgically implantable artificial kidney the size of a coffee cup has been unveiled by the national project's lead researcher, Shuvo Roy, PhD, a member of the UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. The device is intended to give patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) the health benefits of a kidney transplant while addressing the limited number of donors. Unlike dialysis, which is a short-term treatment for ESRD patients, tethering them to equipment for long periods of time, the new implantable device is being designed as a long-term solution and is a free-standing implant requiring no hook ups to external machines, and no pumps or batteries.
UCSF unveils model for implantable artificial kidney to replace dialysis
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Aug 17, 2010
An article in the August 13, 2010, issue of The New York Times, entitled Pharmacists Take a Larger Role on Health Team, points to the emerging role of pharmacists in the direct management of patients' medications--a function that has been shown to improve health outcomes and decrease health care costs. Programs designed to test the effectiveness of the pharmacist-led medication management programs have long been under way at the UCSF School of Pharmacy.
Aug 11, 2010
Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, dean, UCSF School of Pharmacy; Kenneth Schell, PharmD, former director and Stanley Weisser, RPh, director, California State Board of Pharmacy
For her decades of service to the pharmacy profession, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, received the highest recognition from the California State Board of Pharmacy on July 28, 2010, during a board meeting in Sacramento, California.
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