Honors and Awards

QBI and Director Krogan’s COVID and infectious disease efforts continue to make waves

Thu Sep 21, 2023

Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley (left) with QBI Director Nevan Krogan, PhD (center), and Pfizer Senior Vice President and Head of Vaccine Research and Development Annaliesa Anderson, PhD (right).

QBI publishes breakthrough on COVID-19 variants; Nevan Krogan recognized as trailblazer.

Innovation gets a boost from 2023 Koda-Kimble Seed Awards

Fri Aug 25, 2023

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, former dean of the School of Pharmacy

This ninth year of awards focuses on research advancing health and furthering understanding related to cancer, diabetes, HIV testing, immune response, and more.

BMI Faculty Neil Risch receives ASHG Lifetime Achievement Award

Sun Aug 13, 2023

The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) has named Neil Risch, PhD, Lamond Family Foundation Distinguished Professor in Human Genetics and Founding Director of the Institute for Human Genetics, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), as the 2023 recipient of the annual ASHG...

Dean Giacomini named prestigious alumni awardee by University at Buffalo

Fri Jul 14, 2023

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Award from her alma mater recognizes Giacomini as a leading scientist and pharmacogenomics expert.

Gruenberg and Hsia win Emerging Teaching Scholars Award from AACP

Tue Jul 11, 2023

Marco Sanchez, Elisabeth Fall

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, MA, and Stephanie Hsia, PharmD, MA

School faculty members honored for outstanding contributions.

Scaling up the bioartificial kidney at UCSF

Mon Jun 12, 2023

Elisabeth Fall

Shuvo Roy, PhD

On June 12, The Kidney Project was awarded a $1 million Artificial Kidney Prize from KidneyX for advancing its prototype bioartificial kidney toward a full-sized, human scale, with manufacturing and ultimately clinical trials on the horizon.

Benet earns Lifetime Achievement Award from Frankfurt Foundation Quality of Medicines

Thu Apr 6, 2023

Leslie Benet, PhD

Leslie Benet, PhD, was recognized for outstanding contributions in the fields of biopharmaceuticals and pharmacokinetics.

Lila Neahring announced as a winner of the Weintraub Award

Wed Mar 1, 2023

Graduate student in the Dumont Lab is honored for research on the mitotic spindle.

Manglik, Arkin, Bastian receive Mark Foundation ASPIRE Award for moonshot cancer research

Thu Feb 23, 2023

Elisabeth Fall

Left to right: Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD; Michelle Arkin, PhD; and Boris Bastian, MD, PhD.

Funding from the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research will fuel high-risk, high-impact research on uveal melanoma.

Giacomini receives 2023 Reynold Spector Award in Clinical Pharmacology and Translational Medicine

Tue Jan 31, 2023

Kathy Giacomini, PhD, BSPharm

The School of Pharmacy’s dean was honored with an award named after one of her scientific heroes.

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