Categories: Research

Drug information resources may miss parts of boxed warnings7

Wed Sep 28, 2011
warning sign
An analysis by UCSF faculty members from the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine has found that the half-dozen most reputable electronic drug information resources—tools commonly used by clinicians to make prescription and patient monitoring decisions—may not provide key elements of some medications’...

UCSF Center for Quantitative Pharmacology kicks off with 2-day Mission Bay symposium8

Fri Sep 16, 2011
William J. Rutter Center at UCSF Mission Bay
The new UCSF Center for Quantitative Pharmacology housed within the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (BTS), a joint department of the Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, will be inaugurated next week with a wide-ranging, 2-day conference, September 22 and 23, 2011 at William J. ...

Asthma genetics study finds new gene9

Mon Aug 29, 2011
A novel gene associated with the asthma susceptibility in African Americans was revealed by a U.S. consortium of asthma genetics researchers, including Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences,

School of Pharmacy biotech symposium features case histories of future pharmaceuticals12

Tue Aug 9, 2011
Mission Bay
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The 2nd Annual Bay Area Biotechnology Symposium, presented by the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Industry Outreach Program in coordination with the UCSF Postdoctoral Scholars Association at Mission Bay in late May 2011, fully lived up to its billing: “Pharmaceuticals of the Futur

Gray receives Krevans Award for outstanding dissertation14

Wed Jul 27, 2011
Gray

Daniel Gray, PhD

Daniel Gray, PhD, is the recipient of the 2011 Julius R. and Patricia A. Krevans Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Nelson and Ferrone explain how they are joining forces against prostate cancer15

Fri Jul 8, 2011
A patient lies on a bed next to an MRI machine.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), used with a novel pyruvate chemical compound that is specially labeled to be read by the MRI machine, is being applied for the first time in humans to study the aggressiveness of prostate cancer in patients and the success of prostate cancer therapies.

Fischbach and Desai focus on “micro” solutions to improve health with drugs16

Thu Jun 30, 2011
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Faculty members in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, share their research on the human microbiome and microfabricated drug delivery systems and their hopes for how their science will improve the health of patients.

Roy presents new research on artificial kidney membranes17

Thu Jun 23, 2011
Silicon-based filtration membranes

Silicon-based filtration membranes are integral to developing an artificial kidney

Shuvo Roy, PhD, a faculty member in the UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, presented initial results of research into a new type of silicon-based kidney filtration membrane at the annual conference of the American Society for Artificial...

Medicaid could cut costs, provide better meds, UCSF School of Pharmacy researchers find18

Wed Jun 22, 2011
A study by researchers with the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy finds that the Medicaid program is likely paying far more than necessary for medications and not offering patients the most effective ones available.

Prioritizing drug label warnings called for by UCSF School of Pharmacy authors19

Wed Jun 8, 2011
In the current issue of The Archives of Internal Medicine, two faculty members of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy issue a call for prioritization in prescription labels’ increasingly long lists of adverse drug events (ADEs).

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