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New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences 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 a half-dozen on-going projects by BTS faculty:

Genetic mutations and liver cancer Xin Chen, PhD Associate adjunct professor Awarded two new grants totaling $351,488 from the National Institute of...

UCSF School of Pharmacy’s 32nd year of top NIH funding includes many new projects

Fri Apr 13, 2012

For the 32nd consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy received more research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

Total grants and contracts awarded to School of Pharmacy researchers during the NIH fiscal year 2011 (running from October 1, 2010 to...

New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry 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 Pharmaceutical Chemistry:

Precisely targeting malaria parasites with drugs Adam Renslo, PhD Associate director of chemistry for the department-...

Desai receives Dawson Biotechnology Award

Thu Apr 12, 2012

UCSF bioengineer Tejal Desai, PhD, will receive the 2012 Paul R. Dawson Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) at the group’s annual meeting in July.

The award honors Desai for her contributions to contemporary teaching and scholarship in biotechnology. She is a faculty member...

Artificial kidney project led by Roy chosen for accelerated FDA program

Mon Apr 9, 2012

The effort led by UCSF bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD, to create an implantable artificial kidney for dialysis patients has been selected as one of the first projects to undergo more timely and collaborative review at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FDA announced on April 9, 2012 that it had chosen three...

Brock becomes president of pharmacy leadership society

Fri Apr 6, 2012

UCSF School of Pharmacy Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning Tina Brock, BSPharm, MSPH, EdD, became president of the national pharmacy leadership society, Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS), at the March 2012 meeting of the American Pharmacists Association in New Orleans.

Brock was voted president-elect by the society’s...

New NIH funding awarded to UCSF School of Pharmacy postdoctoral fellows in 2011

Wed Apr 4, 2012

New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included two on-going projects by postdoctoral fellows:

Improving computer programs to yield better drug candidates Ryan Coleman, PhD Post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Brian Shoichet, PhD...

PLS chapter wins national leadership challenge grant

Wed Apr 4, 2012

Phi Lambda Sigma—Beta Beta chapter cabinet

The UCSF School of Pharmacy student chapter of the national pharmacy leadership society, Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS), has won the organization’s 2012 Charles Thomas Leadership Challenge Grant to support a campus project.

Student pharmacist Caroline Lindsay,...

Shoichet is the new director of the QB3 at UCSF

Tue Apr 3, 2012

Computational chemist Brian Shoichet, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy, is the new director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at UCSF.

QB3, with research facilities at UC campuses in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Santa Cruz, has an...