Tagged: HIV

Dong receives Daniel B. Smith Practice Excellence Award for exceptional career

Mon Apr 15, 2019

Betty J. Dong, PharmD ’72, is a world expert on HIV and hepatitis C medication therapy

Dong is a world expert on human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C medication therapy

QBI fellowship fosters curiosity and perseverance for women scientists

Mon Jan 28, 2019

QBI

Jacqueline Kyosiimire-Lugemwa, PhD, was the first recipient of QBI's Scholarship for Women from Developing Nations in Biosciences.

Jacqueline Kyosiimire-Lugemwa, the first recipient of QBI’s Scholarship for Women from Developing Nations in Biosciences, spent a year at UCSF in which her perseverance in the sciences was tested. She recently returned to her home country of Uganda more ready than ever to tackle big questions about...

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 38th year

Mon Mar 12, 2018

Susan Merrell

Lei Wang (left), PhD, works with postdoctoral researcher Nanxi Wang, PhD.

A culture of discovery and collaboration among faculty carries potential to “completely shake up their fields of study.”

Update from the Dean - March 2017

Wed Mar 15, 2017

Nation debates possibility of dramatically new directions for health care coverage, science funding, immigration, education; Revealing malaria/HIV drug interactions in children; Decreasing cancer drug toxicity while increasing dose; Engineering safer opioids; Evidence for comprehensive medication...

Renewed funding for Aweeka study on malaria treatment for children with HIV in Africa

Wed Sep 21, 2016

Elisabeth Fall

Fran Aweeka, PharmD

Fran Aweeka, PharmD, will receive renewed funding for her grant from the National Institutes of Health for evaluating the pharmacology of antimalarial drugs in children in Africa. This is a renewal of her R01 on this important work, and will provide five years of funding for Aweeka and her...

Aweeka study details impact of HIV drugs on malaria treatment in children

Thu Aug 25, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to a billion people and to overlapping health burdens, including the world’s highest rates of both malaria and HIV infection.

Craik receives Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award

Fri Mar 11, 2016

Charles S. Craik, PhD

Charles S. Craik, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award.

Kirsten Balano, PharmD

Wed Mar 6, 2013

Assistant Professor

My clinical work is focused on HIV adherence, ambulatory care services, and health-care delivery systems, particularly within community health centers. As the North Bay Program Director and AIDS Education and Training Center faculty member, I am also interested in developing effective education and...

New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Clinical Pharmacy in 2011

Fri Apr 13, 2012

New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included these on-going projects by faculty in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy:

The HIV pharmacist: helping patients pick and stick with lifesaving drugs

Wed Feb 22, 2012

Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD

How do you convince patients who feel fine to take medicines that can have major side effects?

How can you help them stay on their lifesaving daily medications for years to come despite the obstacle course of everyday life?

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