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Top-ranked UCSF School of Pharmacy challenged to retain accreditation under outdated state funding model

Fri Jul 25, 2008

Historical underfunding of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, which has been exacerbated by successive California state budget cuts, threatens the School's ability to retain accreditation status of its doctor of pharmacy program, explains the School's dean, Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD. The School is the nation's top-ranked pharmacy...

Bero comments on corporate funding and academic research

Wed Jul 16, 2008

Lisa Bero, PhD, UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member, looks at the potential benefits, risks, and ethical issues of different corporate/academic funding models. She also calls for a research agenda aimed at clarifying the effects of these relationships on research integrity, faculty attitudes, technology transfer, and...

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Malawi research journal: blog from Sharon L. Youmans PharmD, MPH

Wed Jul 16, 2008

In this series of regular reports, Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, shares her personal story during her 3-week research stay in The Republic of Malawi in southeastern Africa.

The goals of Youmans’ research project are to describe how religious groups and traditional healers...

Shoichet sheds light on enzyme actions

Thu May 15, 2008

Through study results of a particular enzyme of unknown function, called Tm0936, that is found in a bacterium that lives in thermal vents in the Mediterranean Ocean, UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Brian Shoichet, PhD and colleagues are shedding light on how to ultimately better predict the actions of enzymes involved in...

Dill elected to National Academy of Sciences

Thu May 1, 2008

Ken Dill, PhD, professor and associate dean of research in the UCSF School of Pharmacy and international expert on theoretical approaches to determining how protein molecules fold, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). With this announcement, made by the Academy on Tuesday, April 29, 2008...

UCSF School of Pharmacy #1 in research funding, 29th year

Mon Apr 21, 2008

For the 29th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy ranks first among US pharmacy schools in contract and grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), according to figures for fiscal year 2007. "The School's history of research funding success reflects its strength in both the most basic...

UCSF School of Pharmacy ranks #1

Wed Apr 2, 2008

The UCSF School of Pharmacy continues to rank #1 among Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree programs in the United States according to results of a survey conducted in 2007 and published online on March 26, 2008 by U.S. News & World Report.

"Our success in rankings such as these has a lot to do with the fact that we don't...

UCSF School of Pharmacy sets 5-year plan in motion

Tue Apr 1, 2008

Strategic Course 2007-2012

"It is a plan that looks at today's medications and the needs of patients and lays out an agenda to meet those needs," says Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy. She refers to the School's 5-year strategic plan Pressing Ahead in New Directions, which...

Medication therapy management in and out of the doctor’s office

Wed Mar 19, 2008

Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD, faculty member at the UCSF School of Pharmacy, was hired in 1996 by a 120-physician group practice to control the cost of prescribing. That work evolved into a model for cost effective medication therapy management (MTM) by pharmacists who work closely with physicians. Stebbins is now applying her...