Categories: Research

Weaver’s research featured in Cell Stem Cell

Mon Jul 25, 2016
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graphical abstract: Weaver

Research results from the lab of Valerie Weaver, PhD, were reported online July 21, 2016 in Cell Stem Cell.

White paper demonstrates the value of Comprehensive Medication Management

Mon Jul 11, 2016
Stebbins
Elisabeth Fall

Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD

A growing body of evidence is showing that comprehensive medication management (CMM) can be an important component in reaching the so-called triple aim of health care reform:

Three Ways to Build an Artificial Kidney

Wed Jun 29, 2016

Burchard leads call for diversity in research workforce

Thu Jun 16, 2016
White, Contreras, Risse-Adams
Noah Berger

Marquitta White (right), MS, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Burchard Lab, took on five young summer research students of diverse backgrounds, including Maria Contreras (left) and Oona Risse-Adams (center), a 16-year-old sophomore at Lowell High School in San Francisco.

The photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. hanging on the wall of the Asthma Collaboratory lab in UC San Francisco’s Rock Hall serves a reminder to all who toil there, purifying DNA samples or analyzing genetic, social or environmental data that their research is also part of a dream of equality and...

Revolution Medicines Names Michael Fischbach as Academic Co-Founder

Thu Jun 16, 2016

Why Are Health Studies So White?

Thu Jun 16, 2016

Blacks Die From Asthma at Steep Rates, But Are Absent From Many Studies

Tue Jun 7, 2016

Tales of African-American History Found in DNA

Tue May 31, 2016

Classroom pharmacogenetics, post-hospital medications, and post-brain-surgery drugs take top honors

Thu May 26, 2016
Rifkind
Elisabeth Fall

Gary Rifkind, PharmD, Class of 1960.

Studies of pharmacogenetics testing of pharmacy students as a teaching tool, an improved system to resolve medication issues after patients go home from the hospital, and the prophylactic use of an antiseizure drug for brain surgery patients took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy...

Stebbins, Cocohoba leading specialty drug study with Walgreens

Tue May 24, 2016
Stebbins and Cocohoba
UCSF
, Elisabeth Fall

Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD (left), and Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD

So-called specialty drugs can represent lifesaving advances in the treatment of serious complex conditions, such as cancers, hepatitis C, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, and inflammatory bowel disease. They can turn once routinely lethal diseases such as HIV and cystic fibrosis into...

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