Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 36th year in a row

Thu Mar 31, 2016
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For the 36th 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.

Fragment-based discovery: using smaller molecules to solve larger challenges

Thu Mar 24, 2016
KSHV dimer
ChemMedChem, 28 JAN 2016

Protease enzymes of the Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV Pr) require two monomer proteins to combine into a dimer in order to activate. Dotted black box is the protein-protein interface targeted for disruption by Craik Lab researchers. (Colored balls represent amino acids—methionines—labeled to help determine if screened fragments inhibit dimerization.)

To discover new drugs and chemical probes, researchers have traditionally screened small molecules—small enough by weight to pass through cell membranes.

Seminar: 2 inactive 4 destruction or The tails of p63

Mon Mar 21, 2016
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Volker Dötsch, PhD

Professor Volker Dötsch, PhD, Professor at the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Goethe University, is giving a seminar entitled "2 inactive 4 destruction, or The tails of p63." The seminar will be held on April 6, 2016, from 12-1 pm in Mission Hall room 1401.

Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

Mon Mar 21, 2016

Antibody Technology Research Center Symposium

Thu Mar 17, 2016
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The Antibody Technology Research Center Symposium is a one-day conference on cutting-edge technologies for recombinant antibody generation and engineering for difficult and important targets including the secreteome, active protein conformers, and post-translationally modified proteins.

UC San Francisco establishes Quantitative Biosciences Institute

Wed Mar 16, 2016
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Susan Merrell

Nevan Krogan, PhD

UC San Francisco today announced the establishment of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI).

Craik receives Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award

Fri Mar 11, 2016
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Charles S. Craik, PhD

Charles S. Craik, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award.

UCSF Discovery Fellows: The Michael Page Research Symposium

Thu Mar 10, 2016
The UCSF Discovery Fellows Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 13, at 4:00 pm in Genentech Hall at the Mission Bay campus.

Michelle Arkin: All Things are One Thing

Wed Mar 2, 2016

Joe Biden, wife hold cancer roundtable at UCSF

Tue Mar 1, 2016

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