Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Clustering of functional protein loop conformations: applications to kinases, antibodies, and Ras: a QBI online seminar with Roland Dunbrack

Wed Sep 9, 2020
Dunbrack.
The QBI Online Seminar Series presents Roland Dunbrack, researcher at the Institute for Cancer Research at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. Dr. Dunbrack obtained his PhD from Harvard University under the direction of Martin Karplus and Jack Strominger followed by postdoctoral work with Fred Cohen and...

Update from the Dean: Back to school

Thu Aug 13, 2020
Guglielmo

Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

Dean Guglielmo provides updates on ongoing efforts with science, education, and patient care in the School.

UCSF’s artificial kidney project wins major award, now one step closer to potentially changing lives

Mon Aug 10, 2020

QCRG and Subgroups Town Hall

Tue Aug 4, 2020
event poster
The evolving COVID-19 situation is prompting quick responses from within our local research community and labs. In order to keep UCSF researchers informed of changes to the research activities as well as current research related to COVID-19, the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at UCSF is...

How does Toxoplasma gondii initiate infection in a new host?: a QBI online seminar with Pascale Guiton

Tue Aug 4, 2020
Guiton.
The QBI Online Seminar Series presents Pascale Guiton, assistant professor of biological sciences at the California State University East Bay. Pascale trained as a molecular microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis and at Stanford University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on...

Science in the Time of Corona: Could COVID-19 change the role of conferences in science?

Thu Jul 30, 2020
people in online meeting.
QBI presents Science in the Time of Corona, a live show where scientists discuss how COVID-19 has changed science. Join us for a discussion with two researchers in the QBI Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG) about the transition to online conferences that has been made necessary by COVID-19 and...

Dozens of presumed inactive ingredients may impact human biology

Wed Jul 29, 2020
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Morguefile.com

School scientists have found that various inactive ingredients in drugs, known as excipients, may produce unwanted side effects in the human body.

School scientists identify excipients with potential to cause side effects

Science in the Time of Corona: Has COVID-19 changed how women and mothers do research, and what can we learn from this?

Wed Jul 29, 2020
people in online meeting.
Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) presents Science in the Time of Corona, a live show where scientists discuss how COVID-19 has changed science. Join us for a discussion with two researchers in the QBI Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG) about the unique impacts that COVID-19 has had on women...

The Kidney Project wins KidneyX Award to enable simpler, safer at-home dialysis

Wed Jul 22, 2020
The Kidney Project's iHemo offers patients a safer, in-home alternative to dialysis

The Kidney Project's iHemo implantable dialysis system received a $500,000 award to speed its development into an approved therapy for patients.

School's efforts to develop artificial kidney receive $500,000 boost

Studying the diversification of ion channel regulation with insertional profiling: a QBI online seminar with Willow Coyote-Maestas

Mon Jul 20, 2020
Coyote-Maestas.
The QBI Seminar Series presents a seminar with Willow Coyote-Maestas, an HHMI Gilliam and NSF Graduate Fellow in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Willow received a master of science in bioinformatics and computational biology at the University...

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