Patient Care

New Possibilities for Psychedelic Treatment in Neurodegenerative Disease

Fri Jul 11, 2025

Department of Clinical Pharmacy Professor Patrick Finley, PharmD, an expert in psychiatric pharmacy, co-authored a study published in Neuropsychopharmacology that is the first to test the psychedelic compound psilocybin in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

Watanabe Studies Shifting Diabetes Treatment Patterns

Tue Jul 8, 2025

Jonathan Watanabe, PharmD, MS, PhD

Analysis by Department of Clinical Pharmacy Chair Jonathan Watanabe, PharmD, MS, PhD, reveals encouraging trends, but also highlights a persistent treatment gap.

Alum Brings Different Brand of Patient Care to Foster and Critically Ill Children Through Baking

Wed Jul 2, 2025

Reyles-Derry in white coat cutting a cake

Rachelle Reyles-Derry, PharmD ’05

In her family of medical professionals, the expectation was that Rachelle Reyles-Derry, PharmD ’05, would become a nurse. Instead, she was drawn to pharmacy by her curiosity while growing up to understand the medications prescribed for her father’s chronic conditions.

Kortemme: How AI Can Help Us Make New Medicines Faster

Thu Jun 26, 2025

Susan Merrell

Kortemme in her UCSF lab.

Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Professor Tanja Kortemme, PhD, offers insight into how federally-funded research has America on the cusp of a new dawn in pharmaceuticals, offering hope for curing the most heartbreaking diseases.

The Quest to Reinvent Anesthesia

Wed Jun 18, 2025

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professors Jason Sello, PhD, and Brian Shoichet, PhD ’91. (

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professors Brian Shoichet, PhD ’91, and Jason Sello, PhD, are leading a collaborative research project to scour millions of compounds — with help from tiny zebrafish — to create anesthetics safe enough to use without an anesthesiologist.

Addressing Pharmacy Deserts and Expanding the Pharmaceutical Workforce

Fri Jun 13, 2025

Leading the Way in Training Pharmacists to Tackle Tobacco Dependence

Tue Jun 3, 2025

Marco Sanchez

Robin Corelli, PharmD

World No Tobacco Day is an occasion to reflect on UCSF’s national leadership and innovation in tobacco education — with limitless potential to directly reach patients. Department of Clinical Pharmacy Professor Robin Corelli, PharmD, has been taking on nicotine addiction for more than two decades.

Wells Lab Shows How Oxygen Deprivation Rewires Pancreatic Tumors

Wed May 28, 2025

Jim Wells, PhD

Recently published findings reveal how the hypoxic, or low-oxygen, environment characteristic of pancreatic cancer reshapes the proteolytic landscape of the tumor, a discovery that could translate into better diagnostic tools or treatments.

Three Kids, One PharmD: Lubna Khan Balances Family and Pharmacy School

Tue May 20, 2025

Lubna Khan, PharmD student, Class of 2025

Lubna Khan, a first-gen graduate in the Class of 2025, has managed to balance the demands of grad school with the challenges of motherhood (she welcomed her third child during final exams) thanks to her family support system and relentless determination.

Proactive, Personalized, Precise: AI and Collaborative Research is Revolutionizing ALS Care

Thu May 1, 2025

Cindy Chew

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professors Steven Altschuler, PhD, and Lani Wu, PhD

Serendipitous teamwork between Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professors and lab partners Steven Altschuler, PhD, and Lani Wu, PhD, and Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, MD, PhD, director of the ALS Center at UCSF, is developing a new approach to classifying and treating the complex neurodegenerative...

Categories: Patient Care