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2021 News
Wed Jan 20, 2021
Tejal Desai, PhD, and colleagues took inspiration from the structure of DNA to engineer a biomaterial that promises to improve CAR-T cell therapy for various cancers.
It may sound like science fiction, but since 2017, scientists and oncologists have genetically engineered patients’ own immune cells to successfully track down and destroy tumor cells. The approach, called CAR T-cell therapy, is currently used to treat just a small number of cancers of the blood...
Tue Jan 12, 2021
Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD opened the ceremony by highlighting frontline health care workers, physicians, nurses, pharmacists and scientists working to combat COVID-19.
When the UC San Francisco doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) class of 2020 delayed their commencement back in April, it was hoped that the COVID-19 pandemic would be contained in time for the class to celebrate their new degrees in person, surrounded by friends and family. But it wasn’t meant to be.
Even...