The effort to create the first implantable bioartificial kidney has received a $750,000 gift from the John and Marcia Goldman Foundation.
Led by UCSF bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD, The Kidney Project brings together researchers at nine institutions nationwide. Roy is a faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering and...
As the 122 members of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s class of 2016 began their first classes this week, they rushed by a wall of pictures of the School’s former deans—all staunch supporters of pharmacy education and pharmaceutical science—stretching back to the School’s beginnings in 1872.
This summer, two beloved former deans—...
A community storytelling initiative by a public radio station has yielded a surprising connection between an East Oakland fifth grader and Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s associate dean of diversity.
Youmans first heard 10-year-old Lita Hernandez on an August broadcast of Hear Here...
Xiaokun Shu, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator award, which will provide up to $1.5 million in research funding over the next five years.
Shu, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, will use the...
New research has found that the protein clathrin, well known as a building block of containers used to transport biological cargo inside cells, also plays a key role in helping cells divide properly.
The study, featured on the cover of the August 20th edition of The Journal of Cell Biology, specifically found that clathrin...
A promising new way to fight human herpes viruses and a drug delivery device to better treat a major cause of blindness have won development funding from UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).
The herpes virus treatment project, awarded $100,000 under CTSI’s T1 Translational Catalyst Awards, is led by ...
Systematic reviews seek to answer key questions about the relative effectiveness and safety of medical interventions by selecting, combining, and critically evaluating the research in published medical literature.
But more than two-thirds of the systematic reviews of drug therapies written to the leading international standard fail to...
Matthew Chang and Katie Alvarez, UCSF School of Pharmacy student pharmacists, are the winners of the 2012 Clinical Skills Competition held during the national meeting of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) on July 21, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The clinical competition is performed...
Two years after launching as a pilot effort, an innovative graduate curriculum in translational medicine jointly offered by UCSF and UC Berkeley has received final approval from University of California President Mark Yudof as a master’s degree program.
Until now, the joint effort had been granting Master of Science...