Research

Scaling up the bioartificial kidney at UCSF

Mon Jun 12, 2023

Shuvo Roy, PhD

On June 12, The Kidney Project was awarded a $1 million Artificial Kidney Prize from KidneyX for advancing its prototype bioartificial kidney toward a full-sized, human scale, with manufacturing and ultimately clinical trials on the horizon.

Brenda Melano and Sebastián Cruz-González receive 2023 Genentech-UCSF School of Pharmacy Diversity Fellowships

Thu Apr 27, 2023

Brenda Melano, left, and Sebastián Cruz-González.

PSPG and BMI graduate students will bring their scientific talents and passion for equity to Genentech during their summer internships.

Making sense of scents

Mon Mar 20, 2023

A man smelling a bundle of flowers in his hands

Unsplash/Creative Commons

UCSF researchers capture the first images of an odorant binding to an olfactory receptor.

Using the bioartificial kidney to free patients from dialysis

Tue Mar 14, 2023

Roy holds a tan device with tubes coming out of it

Shuvo Roy, PhD, holding a prototype of the bioartificial kidney.

The Kidney Project is featured in an outlook in Nature.

How proteins orchestrate the biology of the cell

Mon Feb 27, 2023

A ball and stick model of a protein with allosteric sites shown as red spheres

Kortemme Lab

Research from QBI revealed a variety of allosteric sites (red spheres) on the protein Gsp1 that influence its behavior at its active site (white spheres) from afar. Allosteric maps like this highlight potential druggable sites and inform understanding of mutations found in diseases like cancer.

Research from QBI illuminates the interconnected nature of molecular networks.

Manglik, Arkin, Bastian receive Mark Foundation ASPIRE Award for moonshot cancer research

Thu Feb 23, 2023

Elisabeth Fall

Left to right: Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD; Michelle Arkin, PhD; and Boris Bastian, MD, PhD.

Funding from the Mark Foundation for Cancer Research will fuel high-risk, high-impact research on uveal melanoma.

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for the 43rd straight year

Mon Feb 20, 2023

Elena Graham

Michelle Arkin, PhD, uses a handheld model of a small molecule bound to a protein to illustrate how her research group thinks about drug discovery. Arkin was one of the School of Pharmacy’s top NIH grant earners in 2022.

School research into health, disease, and medicine earned the most NIH research dollars of any U.S. pharmacy school for the 43rd consecutive year.

Closing the equity gap in science

Tue Feb 14, 2023

Ce’Aysia, a high school senior, conducted research at UCSF as an intern in the Bay Area Youth Science (BAYS) program.

The UCSF Bay Area Youth Science (BAYS) program prepares high school students from historically excluded backgrounds for STEM careers.

Celebrating women in discovery science

Tue Feb 14, 2023

Noah Berger

Catera Wilder, PhD, left, and Balyn Zaro, PhD

Zaro and Wilder share their passion for science as part of International Women and Girls in Science Day.

TRANSPERS and UCSF Precision Medicine join forces with Access and Value Program

Wed Feb 8, 2023

Karen Shuster

Kathryn Phillips, PhD

Initiative seeks to translate advances in precision medicine into changes in health care policy and practice

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