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Pharmacy Alumni Weekend report

Wed Apr 27, 2016

Some 250 UCSF School of Pharmacy graduates reconnected with classmates, rekindled friendships, and learned about the latest work across schools and the Graduate Division during Alumni Weekend 2016, held April 8 and 9, and headquartered at the Fairmont San Francisco Hotel.

Gibson receives standing ovation...

National awards recognize pharmacy educators

Mon Apr 18, 2016

Three UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty members have received national honors for health sciences education this spring.

Public Health Excellence Award

Robin Corelli, PharmD, and Karen Hudmon, DrPH, MS, BSPharm, both Department of Clinical Pharmacy, received the Public Health Excellence Award from the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS)...

Guglielmo comments on pharmacy education

Thu Apr 14, 2016

Learning how to solve problems and think critically—using course content as the vehicle to apply these skills—is one evolving goal of the UCSF School of Pharmacy doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum, according to the School’s dean, B. Joseph Guglielmo PharmD, in an interview posted April 12, 2016, in Pharmacy Times.

Guglielmo...

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 36th year in a row

Thu Mar 31, 2016

For the 36th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

School researchers were awarded $27 million during NIH’s 2015 fiscal year, from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015. Rankings of schools are compiled by...

Ahituv Lab research finds how bats grow wings, with implications for human limb development

Mon Mar 28, 2016

Researchers in the laboratory of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Nadav Ahituv, PhD, study the roles of gene regulatory elements—DNA segments that tell genes when, where, and to what extent to turn on and off—including in human conditions ranging from limb malformations to epilepsy and autism.

Now a branch of that research has led...

Fragment-based discovery: using smaller molecules to solve larger challenges

Thu Mar 24, 2016

To discover new drugs and chemical probes, researchers have traditionally screened small molecules—small enough by weight to pass through cell membranes. Their goal is typically to find compounds that selectively bind to a much larger protein molecule (often an enzyme) at a chemically reactive pocket known as the active site, inhibiting its...

UC San Francisco establishes Quantitative Biosciences Institute

Wed Mar 16, 2016

UC San Francisco today announced the establishment of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI). The mission of QBI, located in Byers Hall on the UCSF Mission Bay campus, is to drive forward the application of computation, mathematics, and statistics toward a deeper understanding of complex problems in biology, with the ultimate goal of...

UCSF PharmD program ranked among the nation’s best

Tue Mar 15, 2016

The UCSF School of Pharmacy’s doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program is among the top-ranked programs in the 2017 U.S. News and World Report survey of accredited PharmD programs released on March 15, 2016.

The UCSF program was ranked third. “This means our PharmD program is perceived by academic peers as a national leader among a...

Craik receives Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award

Fri Mar 11, 2016

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.

The Kaiser award is given annually by the international society to recognize “a recent, highly significant contribution to the application of chemistry in the...