Aplidin is extracted from Aplidium albicans, a sea squirt found off the coast of Spain.
“If you get a drug that targets a human protein, it would be incredibly hard for the virus to mutate away from being reliant on it,” said Nevan Krogan, the director of QBI.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) viral particles under an electron microscopic.
“This is looking across coronaviruses and finding the commonalities so we’re in a better position to attack SARS3 when it comes,” said Nevan Krogan, the director of QBI.
Jacqueline Fabius (left) and Kwadwo (Kojo) Opoku-Nsiah
Jacqueline Fabius was given the Chancellor’s Award for Advancement of Women, and Kwadwo (Kojo) Opoku-Nsiah was given the Chancellor’s Award for Martin Luther King, Jr., Leadership.
USAID’s “Stronger There, Safer Here” exhibit is on display June 12 to July 31, 2019, on the first floor of Mission Hall at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.
A photo exhibition on the response by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to Zika virus outbreaks in Latin America and the Caribbean was kicked off with a reception this June at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus.
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...
