Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

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...

Science in the Time of Corona: A unique Franco-American collaboration

Mon Jul 20, 2020
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Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) presents Science in the Time of Corona, a live show in which scientists discuss the ways that COVID-19 has changed science.

How targeting a key SARS-CoV-2 enzyme could lead to an antiviral drug

Fri Jul 10, 2020
Fraser
Elisabeth Fall

James Fraser, PhD

The chemical fragments could bind to and disable an enzyme that helps the virus replicate.

Tunnels, bridges, and ferries: How bacteria move lipids between membranes: a QBI online seminar with Damian Ekiert

Thu Jul 2, 2020
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The QBI Online Seminar Series presents a seminar with Damian Ekiert, assistant professor for cell biology and microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine. Gram-negative bacteria are surrounded by two lipid membranes, creating a formidable barrier against the outside world.

COVID-19 relies on cell’s ‘master regulators’ for survival

Tue Jun 30, 2020

Building a machine for secretion of bulky collagens and its application to tissue fibrosis: a QBI online seminar with Vivek Malhotra

Tue Jun 23, 2020
Vivek.
The QBI Online Seminar Series presents a seminar with Vivek Malhotra, chair of Cell and Developmental Biology at the Centre for Genomic Regulation.

Update from the Dean: Confronting racism and health inequities

Fri Jun 19, 2020
Guglielmo
Elisabeth Fall

Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

Our COVID-19 response: A commitment to anti-racist action

Bay Area must enable economic, equitable recovery

Mon Jun 15, 2020

QCRG + Subgroups Town Hall

Thu Jun 4, 2020
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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 at UCSF is hosting...

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