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Symposium on the future of therapeutics inaugurates new UCSF department

Wed Feb 3, 2010

In the first symposium held by the newly minted UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, researchers described progress in the fields of systems biology, pharmacogenomics, and bioengineering, and how scientists in these fields are working in concert to develop novel diagnostics and therapeutics to effectively and safely...

Pharmacists needed in Haiti according to UCSF students

Tue Jan 19, 2010

The call for medical teams to help the victims of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti should include pharmacists, according to UCSF student pharmacists Michelle Tadano and Ben Greener. "As medication specialists, pharmacists are needed to identify the numerous problems that arise when patients...

Burchard joins discussion on race and ethnicity

Tue Jan 19, 2010

Burchard participates in a panel and explains the differences between race and ethnicity and more with NPR’s Science Friday aired January 15, 2010.

a patient in a wheelchair is pushed by another person while a health care provider holds a door open

Clinical pharmacists offer medication service to Fresno community

Wed Jan 13, 2010

Medication management advice was offered free to the Fresno, California, community on January 12, 2010 by clinical pharmacists from the UCSF School of Pharmacy. The event introduced the Medication Management Service, Fresno and the expertise if its patient-centered pharmacists to the California Central Valley area.

Service director...

Shoichet research one of top breakthroughs for 2009

Thu Jan 7, 2010

Wired Science has cited a computational model developed in the UCSF School of Pharmacy under the direction of faculty member Brian Shoichet, PhD, and applied and tested by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, as one of the Top Scientific Breakthroughs for 2009. The...

Structural model of the active site of procaspase-3

Wells uses small molecules to trigger cell death

Wed Dec 16, 2009

Research directed by senior author James Wells, PhD, chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy, has opened the door to a new way of studying and better understanding the processes of cell death (apoptosis), blood clotting, and other biochemical pathways. Insights could lead to the development...

Method to predict polypharmacology developed in Shoichet Lab

Tue Dec 15, 2009

A computational method developed in the UCSF School of Pharmacy under the direction of faculty member Brian Shoichet, PhD, has the potential to predict new target diseases for existing drugs as well as unexpected side effects of approved drugs.

While the development of a specific drug to affect a specific disease...

California Poison Control System receives funding through June 2010

Fri Dec 11, 2009

The University of California, San Francisco-operated California Poison Control System (CPCS), which had already sent layoff notices to its employees January 15, 2010, has secured funding to rescind the notices and continue to care for Californians, through June 2010, via its free and immediate 24 hour per day, 7 days per week advice and...

TIRF imaging shows highly localized YFP recruitment.

UCSF innovation among top 10 for 2009

Mon Dec 7, 2009

The Scientist has cited a UCSF innovation among its top 10 list of tools to hit the life sciences in 2009. In the spotlight is a paper that reveals how to import plant "light switches" into mammalian cells to control complex regulatory processes. The paper appeared in the October 15, 2009 issue of Nature. Authors are the UCSF...