Research

Black Genes Matter

Mon Mar 20, 2017

Koda-Kimble Seed Award recipients explore ‘blue-sky’ projects

Mon Feb 27, 2017

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

Recipients of the UCSF School of Pharmacy 2017 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation will explore ideas ranging from possible new ways to treat obesity to new ways of accessing antibiotic-producing microbes found in soil.

Fujimori delivers 2017 Byers Award Lecture on tackling antibiotic resistance

Wed Feb 15, 2017

Susan Merrell

Danica Galonić Fujimori, PhD, delivers the 2017 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science. Her topic was the problem of antibiotic resistance and how research may help keep drugs effective.

Since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1940, countless lives have been saved by antibiotics. But their effectiveness is severely compromised by the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, accelerated by the over-prescription of antibiotics and their widespread use as growth...

Five School of Pharmacy researchers in first cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators

Tue Feb 14, 2017

Fifteen UC San Francisco faculty members have been named to the first cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators, including five from the School of Pharmacy.

$500M gift to UCSF will support faculty, students, innovation

Fri Jan 13, 2017

students wearing white coats and walking

To honor and build on a lifetime of giving and charitable service by the late Helen Diller, the Helen Diller Foundation has granted $500 million to UC San Francisco, a university to which Helen was both generous and devoted.

Using Light to Make Single Cells Self-Destruct

Thu Jan 12, 2017

Renslo Lab develops new type of targeted chemotherapy that proves effective in mice

Mon Dec 12, 2016

Elisabeth Fall

Adam Renslo, PhD

Research in the lab of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Adam Renslo, PhD, has developed a new way of selectively targeting cancer cells with drugs. In experiments with mice, the new approach allowed for the delivery of fifty times higher doses of chemotherapy to tumors while avoiding toxic...

Prien and MacWilliam bequests establish new endowed professorships

Wed Dec 7, 2016

Foresight, newsletter of UCSF Office of Gift & Endowment Planning

Ernest Prien, BS ’34 and Mary MacWilliam, EdD, UC Berkeley, 1956

The UCSF School of Pharmacy has established new endowed faculty positions to be held by the chairs of two School departments.

Apollonio publishes new Cochrane Review

Fri Dec 2, 2016

Dorie Apollonio, PhD, MPP, and Lisa Bero, PhD. Image credit: Apollonio: Elisabeth Fall.

Do tobacco cessation interventions provided during substance abuse treatment help tobacco users to quit?

Shoichet receives DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences

Thu Dec 1, 2016

Robert Rizzo

Graphic depiction of a typical DOCK setup used toward the discovery of a potential disease inhibitor—in this case, testing compounds for binding to an HIV protein.

Brian Shoichet, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2017 recipient of the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences.

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