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Aimed at modernizing the drug development and regulatory processes -- Learn More First San Francisco session October 20, 2008 -- Registration still open, Session Program News Headlines on October 11, 2008UCSF Graduate Student among First-place Winners of STEP White Paper Competition 2008
Drug Access in the Home Tied to Drug Use by Teens
Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons -- cc-by-sa-2.0 license Predicting Protein Shape: the Next Research Challenge
Image Credit: Energy landscape image that represents the reduction of conformational entropy as protein chains fold to their native states. -- Ken A. Dill and Hue Sun Chan, Nature Structural Biology, January 1997, Volume 4, No. 1.
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Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD reports on School activities, issues, & successes in the Spring/Summer 2008 
2008-2010 American Course on Drug Development Science (ACDRS)
UCSF biophysics PhD student Gabriel Rocklin and Jacob Heller, Stanford University law student, were first-place winners, with a second team, of the Science, Technology and Engineering Policy (STEP) White Paper Competition 2008. The team proposes the establishment of a new federal fund to support the development of pharmaceutical products based upon what the authors define as the true measure of the products' value—their contribution to the quality and length of human life. The competition is sponsored by the STEP Policy Group at the University of California, Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley), and is designed to explore the interplay between technology and pressing policy needs. 
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Parents need to be accountable for medications in the home and discard unused medications, according to UCSF School of Pharmacy volunteer faculty member and pain management specialist Peter Koo, PharmD. His comments were in response to an annual survey released this year on August 14, 2008 by the National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse. The survey concluded that parents who fail to monitor their children’s school night activities, safeguard their prescription drugs, address the problem of drugs in their children’s schools, and set good examples increase the risk that their 12- to 17-year old children will smoke, drink, and use illegal and prescription drugs. Almost one-half of teens surveyed said that painkillers are the most commonly abused prescription drug among teens. 
Understanding protein folding is key to understanding what goes wrong in diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, that result when proteins misfold. UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty members Ken Dill, PhD, and Andrej Sali, PhD, comment on the history of and next steps in protein folding research. Their thoughts are shared, along with other leading protein scientists, in the August 8, 2008 issue of Science. 
