computational biology

Kortemme named new vice dean of research

Wed Nov 1, 2023

Elisabeth Fall

Tanja Kortemme, PhD

Computational biology and protein engineering expert will focus on cultivating collaboration.

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.

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.

Fischbach joins project to generate drugs from bacterial genomes

Thu Oct 15, 2015

Cindy Chew

Michael Fischbach, PhD

Bacteria generate small molecules to fend off their fellow microbes. They also produce molecules that affect the response of host organisms—including humans—to their presence. Such molecules have been a major source of antibiotics, immunosuppressants, anti-cancer agents, and other drugs.

Study discovers simple rules underlying complex brain development in fly

Mon Jun 29, 2015

Langen et al. / Cell 2015

A fruit fly’s compound eye contains 800 prism-like facets whose six distinct photoreceptor cells capture light coming in from different angles in space. These signals must all find their way to different spots in the fly brain’s visual map of the world.

How does brain circuitry organize itself during development? In at least one case—the seemingly complex visual system of the fruit fly, which connects its 800-facet compound eyes to its brain—the answer lies in just three simple rules.

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

Mon Sep 22, 2014

Ryan Hernandez, PhD

Wed Mar 6, 2013

Vice Dean & Professor

Along with Stephanie Hsia, PharmD, MEd, and Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, I lead the School’s various initiatives for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), with an emphasis on unifying the DEI efforts of community members and smaller units within the School.

I am a professor studying patterns...

Reflection: 30 years of top NIH funding for UCSF School of Pharmacy

Wed Dec 22, 2010

Kathy Giacomini, PhD (center), co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, discusses research results in the lab with postdocs Sook Wah Yee (left), and Amber Dahlin (right).

Table of contents

Introduction
Budget significance
Reasons for past success
A decade of funding for bioinformatics
New drug discovery directions attract support

Kortemme named Sloan Fellow

Wed Apr 6, 2005

UCSF School of Pharmacy scientist Tanja Kortemme, PhD, is a 2005 recipient of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Topics and Expertise: computational biology