Research

Cao takes second prize in the UC Grad Slam final

Mon May 7, 2018

Large group helps Cao hold an oversized check for $3,000.

Yiqi Cao, third from left, earns second place in the UC Grad Slam Finals.

Yiqi Cao, a bioengineering PhD candidate, detailed a promising solution she developed for a heart stent that doesn’t trigger scar tissue buildup.

Grants & fellowships: spring 2018

Mon May 7, 2018

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between April and June 2018:

5/4/2018: Bo Huang received funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for his project entitled, “Structure mapping of molecular complexes by super-...

20 years chasing the genetic roots of asthma

Tue May 1, 2018

Noah Berger

Marquitta White, PhD (left), and Esteban G. Burchard, MD, PhD

The UCSF Asthma Collaboratory celebrates 20 years of research on genetic factors in asthma.

Behind enemy lines

Wed Apr 18, 2018

UCSF

Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD, is senior author of the paper.

New research promises to take the guesswork out of matching individual cancer cases to the most effective choices of chemotherapy.

Grants and Fellowships: Winter 2018

Tue Apr 17, 2018

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between January and March 2018:

02/20/2018: Adam Renslo was awarded a three-year grant for his project entitled, “Expanding the Chemical Biology of K2P Channels with Selective Cellular and In vivo Probes...

Protein Engineering May Be the Future of Science

Thu Apr 5, 2018

A pop-up repair shop for damaged neurons

Wed Apr 4, 2018

Alma Burlingame, PhD, is a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy and director of the UCSF Mass Spectrometry Facility.

Collaborative research holds promise for harnessing the nervous system’s own repair programs.

Presenting 2018 Grad Slam Winner Yiqi Cao

Tue Mar 27, 2018

Yiqi Cao, Bioengineering, Don't Go Breaking My Heart…Again. Grad Slam, UC San Francisco, 2018 Winner.

Yiqi Cao, 1st Place Winner

Ten finalists battled for the Grad Slam Championship on 3/22/18. The competition was stiff, the crowd was raucous; but in the end, two BioEs swept the awards.