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.
May 14, 2012
Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD
Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, was honored by the UCSF Medical Center on May 4, 2012 for her “exceptional vision as a leader, commitment to patients, compassion as a human being, and dedication to UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.”
The leadership award is especially significant, according to Koda-Kimble, “because the Medical Center is at the heart of my career as a pharmacist.”
May 9, 2012
Harry W. Hind, 1915-2012
Harry W. Hind, a 1939 graduate of the UCSF School of Pharmacy who invented solutions that revolutionized contact lens use, as well as a topical patch to treat pain from shingles, died on April 12 at age 96.
Hind co-founded Barnes-Hind Pharmaceuticals Inc., which developed drugs to treat tuberculosis and glaucoma. He was a trustee of the UCSF Foundation and a major benefactor of the School of Pharmacy.
Hind and his wife, Diana, who passed away in 2011, gave a total of $5.3 million to establish the School’s first two distinguished professorships.
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 social and economic impact.
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Apr 26, 2012
Al Burlingame, PhD
From the start of his illustrious half-century career in mass spectrometry, Al Burlingame, PhD, has been part of a scientific sea change.
In his first lab at UC Berkeley, complete with a dirt floor and leaky roof, he looked for signs of extraterrestrial life in meteorites. He compares an earlier mass spectrometry technique to “throwing a rock at a mud puddle and looking at the splash.” Nowadays, Burlingame’s laboratory is housed in 21st century digs at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus where he pries apart molecules using electrons, analyzing the most daunting sub-microscopic complexities of health and disease inside human cells.
—David Jacobson
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