Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Resistant bacteria meet their match with custom antibiotics

Mon Oct 26, 2020
Drug resistant bacteria
Paul Gunning (Cell Image Library)

A scanning electron micrograph image of methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.

“Molecular building blocks” give antibiotics an edge over drug-resistant bacteria.

Labs juggle community, distance during COVID-19

Mon Oct 19, 2020
Ahituv juggles outside and Fraser juggles in his kitchen.

Nadav Ahituv, PhD, left, and Jaime Fraser, PhD, trade juggling challenges.

Jaime Fraser and Nadav Ahituv find a fun way to connect without Zoom.

Dean Guglielmo receives flu shot as UCSF asks for broad vaccination

Thu Oct 15, 2020
Guglielmo holds the official proclamation of Pharmacist Day in San Francisco while surrounded by PharmD students.
Levi Gadye

From left, Joe Li, Class of 2021, Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, Kimberly Rosario, Class of 2021, Luciano Sanchez, also Class of 2022 and president of Flu Crew, and Sheila Mohebbi, Class of 2022.

It’s flu shot season and UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) students once again made sure that School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, received his.

HIV 2020: Where are we now?: Beliefs and barriers to PrEP among trans men

Thu Oct 8, 2020
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QBI TV presents “HIV 2020: Where Are We Now?; Beliefs and Barriers to PrEP Among Trans Men,” a live discussion on the underrepresented experiences and obstacles trans men face when dealing with HIV/AIDS.

Regenerative engineering, racial profiling, and healthcare disparities: a titan of life sciences speaks

Thu Oct 8, 2020
Laurencin.
Cato T. Laurencin, MD, PhD, is well known for his extraordinary contributions to science, engineering and medicine, his academic leadership and extensive service to the United States. He is a world leader in materials science, an internationally renowned engineer, and a world-renowned practicing...

Shipman receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Tue Oct 6, 2020
Shipman
Gladstone Institutes

Seth Shipman, PhD

Award funds research into tools for repairing mutations in mitochondrial DNA

Bioartificial kidney aims to mimic natural kidney function with $1 million grant from the John and Marcia Goldman Foundation

Mon Oct 5, 2020
Roy
Susan Merrell

The Kidney Project leader Shuvo Roy, PhD

“People struggling with dialysis need and deserve better choices,” said the founders of the foundation.

The Dance of Death: How the kinase RIPK3 triggers cell killing by the pseudokinase MLKL: a QBI seminar with James Murphy

Tue Sep 29, 2020
Murphy.
The QBI Online Seminar Series presents James Murphy, the head of the Inflammation Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia.

Development Under Stress - Finding New Ubiquitylation Enzymes for Therapeutic Benefit: a QBI/Gladstone seminar with Michael Rape

Tue Sep 29, 2020
Rape.
The QBI/Gladstone Institutes Infectious Disease and Human Health Seminar Series presents a seminar with Michael Rape of the University of California Berkeley.

Second Annual QBI/Institut Pasteur Symposium on Infectious Disease

Tue Sep 29, 2020
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Organized by Drs. Nevan Krogan, Shaeri Mukherjee, Gerald Spaeth, Carmen Buchreiser, and Julia Chamot-Rooke, the Second Annual QBI/Institut Pasteur Symposium on Infectious Disease will be held online in a two-part series on October 13 and 14 from 8:00 am - 10:30 am PDT.

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