Research

QBI pioneers a collaborative and inclusive approach to scientific discovery

Tue Oct 16, 2018

Nevan Krogan, PhD, founded QBI two years ago aiming to build a thriving scientific community at UCSF.

UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI), founded two years ago, is making waves with its unique approach to scientific collaboration, catalyzing discoveries from cancer to psychiatry while supporting female scientists and engaging with the public.

Adam Rao: Shark Tank champ

Wed Oct 10, 2018

Stacy Kim

Adam Rao (second from right) with MTM Team. They are working on Tabla as their capstone project. Other team members are (left to right) Audrey Denman, Liya Abraha, Grant Pemberton, Justin Olshavsky.

Adam Rao, MD/PhD student in Bioengineering, won the $50,000 Grand Prize at the 4th Surgical Innovations Shark Tank competition.

Grants & Fellowships: Summer 2018

Sun Sep 30, 2018

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between July and September 2018:

09/30/2018: Adam Renslo received the US Army Medical Research Activity Award, Department of Defense, for work on prostate cancer. This project will be funded for three...

The Kidney Project and the bioartificial pancreas: When inspiration strikes twice

Wed Sep 26, 2018

Roy holds a silicon filter used in his artificial kidney prototype.

Shuvo Roy, PhD, is trying to make the same type of silicon filter that powers his artificial kidney work in an artificial pancreas.

Inspiration can be a hard thing to find. The history of science is filled with elusive “eureka moments” taking place under unlikely circumstances—Archimedes’ jump in a bath to intuit displacement, Issac Newton’s observation of a falling apple to grasp gravity, and Nikola Tesla’s inspiration for the...

Explore molecular targets in daring new ways

Wed Sep 5, 2018

Arkin receives Ono Pharma Foundation Breakthrough Science Initiative Award

Fri Aug 31, 2018

Elisabeth Fall

Michelle Arkin, PhD

Michelle Arkin, PhD, has received the 2018 Breakthrough Science Initiative Award from the Ono Pharma Foundation to study a class of proteins, called 14-3-3 proteins, known to be involved in various cancers, with the ultimate goal of enabling discoveries that lead to new ways to treat cancer.

The dean advocates for medication lists and pharmacist engagement in patient care

Tue Aug 21, 2018

Elisabeth Fall

School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S., trailing cancer and heart disease. Many of those errors can be traced to issues with medications.

Clothes from a petri dish

Thu Aug 16, 2018

Ethan Mirsky, a Biophysics graduate, and Dan Widmaier, a CCB graduate, are mentioned in a Forbes article about growing artificial spider silk.

Stopping cancer in its tracks

Thu Jul 19, 2018

Cecil Fox, National Cancer Institute

Cancerous breast tissue, with normal connective tissue (pink) and cancer cells (blue).

Cancer, fundamentally, is a problem of too much growth. For decades, health care providers have tried and failed to slow tumor growth using drugs that interfere with a particular signaling pathway, called PI3K, which is known to operate in proliferating cancer cells.

Creating the tools to build a Human Cell Atlas

Wed Jul 18, 2018

Natalie Prigozhina

Human hair follicle cells, cytoskeletons in green and nuclei in blue.

If it’s hard to take an accurate census of the 325 million people living in the US, it’s even more daunting to survey the 37.2 trillion or so cells that make up the human body. The brain alone, for instance, contains nearly 90 billion neurons, which can be classified into over a thousand distinct...

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