Categories: Research

Aweeka co-leads new study of drugs to prevent malaria in young children, pregnant women

Mon Mar 9, 2015
Malaria parasite
Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear

The plasmodium parasite that causes malaria

Francesca Aweeka, PharmD, a faculty member in the School’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, will co-lead a new five-year, $3.4 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address one of the world’s most vexing health problems—preventing malaria, especially in the most...

Lung research survey highlights lack of minority subjects in many biomedical studies

Tue Mar 3, 2015

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 35th year in a row

Thu Feb 26, 2015
Mugridge
Elisabeth Fall

Jeffrey Mugridge, PhD, postdoctoral scholar in the Gross Lab

For the 35th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

School researchers were awarded $31.8 million during the 2014 fiscal year, from October 1, 2013 to September 30,...

DeGrado receives Protein Society’s Stein and Moore Award

Wed Feb 11, 2015
DeGrado
Elisabeth Fall

William DeGrado, PhD

William DeGrado, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2015 recipient of The Protein Society’s Stein and Moore Award.

Most recent School of Pharmacy primary faculty hires, by department

Tue Dec 9, 2014
Altschuler and Wu
Elisabeth Fall

Steven Altschuler, PhD and Lani Wu, PhD are a husband-and-wife research team who recently moved their joint lab to UCSF. They are faculty members in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

The most recently hired faculty members to join the UCSF School of Pharmacy have research interests that range from the treatment of blood clots to mapping biological networks in cancer cells to understanding the molecular workings of ion channels in cell membranes. But they all share the common...

Study finds depression in pregnancy, postpartum is overlooked and undertreated

Mon Dec 1, 2014
About 10 to 20 percent of women suffer from new-onset depression during pregnancy or after giving birth. Untreated, the impact of such illness can be profound, ranging from substance abuse, poor prenatal care, and miscarriages to impaired infant bonding and developmental delays.

Desai Lab develops nanodevices to aid artery repair

Tue Nov 25, 2014
Lance
Kathleen Masterson

Kevin Lance, a graduate student in the Desai lab, holds thin-film blood-vessel wrap being developed to deliver anti-scarring drugs.

Research in the laboratory of Tejal Desai, PhD, is creating new kinds of drug delivery devices to reduce the scarring and inflammation that can undermine stents—metal mesh tubes implanted to prop open blocked arteries, including in the heart.

Burchard study finds Latino asthma risk varies with genetic ancestry

Tue Oct 7, 2014
Asthma

Percentage prevalence of asthma in U.S. children

A new analysis of nearly 5,500 Latino children with and without asthma led by School scientists has found that variations in their genetic ancestry can partially explain major differences in their risk of developing the disease.

Full circle: Startup scores big deal with Pfizer—and QB3 is happy

Mon Sep 22, 2014

Burchard commentary calls for more diversity in biomedical research

Thu Sep 18, 2014
Burchard
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Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

Authoring the lead commentary in the current special issue of Nature devoted to diversity, School faculty member Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH, asserts that the clinical and biomedical research infrastructure “needs to be retooled” to include more diverse patient populations in studies.

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