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Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, explores how AI can enhance pharmacy education for students in a rapidly changing landscape.   

Six years apart on their parallel paths, the Bulla sisters share a first-generation experience from becoming pharmacy technicians to patient care in clinical pharmacy.

The UCSF School of Pharmacy legend, who helped shape the field of pharmacokinetics, introduces a simplified, physics-inspired approach to help future pharmacists make better-informed dosing decisions. 

From her early specialization in oncology to her transition into industry, Melissa Montez, PharmD ’00, built a career rooted in patient impact and now mentors UCSF pharmacy students to imagine broader futures.

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Professor Adam Renslo, PhD, is part of a team of UCSF chemists that has remodeled the structures of new malaria drugs to make them more soluble — while maintaining their effectiveness against drug-resistant parasites.

A new initiative led by the school's Quantitative Biosciences Institute will support mentorship and research capacity, platforms for knowledge exchange, and an international exchange program for promising early-career African scientists.

The founder and director of the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS), who is receiving the UCSF Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecture, discusses her cross-disciplinary journey, the evolution of precision medicine, and what’s next for health policy and equity.

First-year pharmacy students officially entered the profession with white coats, words of inspiration, and a warm welcome from the UCSF School of Pharmacy community.

As a neurodivergent, genderqueer, and transmasculine faculty member in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (BTS), Tristan Storm, PharmD ’21, is bridging research and practice while reminding us all: patients are people first.

Analysis by Department of Clinical Pharmacy Chair Jonathan Watanabe, PharmD, MS, PhD, reveals encouraging trends, but also highlights a persistent treatment gap.

The staff awardees include individuals in many different roles and functions across the school.

Danea Horn, PhD, an associate professional researcher in the clinical pharmacy department at UCSF’s Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS), has investigated how prescription medications and drug pricing programs influence patient and provider behaviors and treatment decisions, with implications for pharmacy practice, health policy, and whole-person care.

Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Professor Tanja Kortemme, PhD, offers insight into how federally-funded research has America on the cusp of a new dawn in pharmaceuticals, offering hope for curing the most heartbreaking diseases.

The School of Pharmacy held a Town Hall in June 2025 that drew more than 100 faculty, staff and students in-person and online.

Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Professor Joanne Chun, PharmD ’93, PhD ’96 leads the MS in AICD3 program — the first of its kind in the nation focused on AI’s transformation of drug discovery and development. Learn more about how AI-based research benefit patients and how the program is developing leaders who can think across disciplines.