Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Demanding change: 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Glen L. Stimmel, PharmD

Fri Mar 15, 2019

Glen L. Stimmel has had a distinguished career in pharmacy.

“Challenging the status quo leads to very good things,” said Glen L. Stimmel, PharmD ’72, who has spent a career doing just that. As a motto, it has served him, and his profession, quite well.

2019 Koda-Kimble Seed Award supports School of Pharmacy’s boldest ideas

Tue Mar 12, 2019

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, former dean of the School of Pharmacy

The 2019 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation will fund nine bold research projects, ranging from studies of the molecular underpinnings of cancer to focus groups designed to prepare PharmD students for experiential learning.

Desai named the director of new UCSF bioengineering initiative

Thu Feb 28, 2019

The Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) program will be led by Tejal Desai, PhD.

The Health Innovation Via Engineering (HIVE) program is designed to inspire collaborations in bioengineering research.

School of Pharmacy tops pharmacy schools in NIH funding for 39th straight year

Wed Feb 27, 2019

Kroetz and colleague review the results of an experiment

Elisabeth Fall

Deanna Kroetz, PhD (right) was among dozens of faculty members who contributed to the School of Pharmacy becoming the top recipient of NIH funding among all pharmacy schools in 2018.

Among all U.S. pharmacy schools, the UCSF School of Pharmacy earned the most research funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling nearly $29 million dollars that will support studies spanning the basic to the clinical sciences.

USP/UCSF fellowship to support research in the quality and safety of medical products

Wed Feb 27, 2019

The UCSF Fellowship in Quality of Medical Products will support research into excipients, or inactive ingredients found in pharmaceutical drugs.

A new fellowship, funded jointly by UCSF-Stanford CERSI and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), will support research into the inactive components of medications, which are known as excipients.

CP159: Certificate in Resiliency Medicine Training: Immunizing for Stress

Wed Feb 13, 2019

About the course

We will explore the current research and demonstrate and practice resiliency building tools including a cross-section of mind-body interactions and internal narratives (story telling). Course completion requires teaching and modeling resiliency skills. Those who successfully...

Gift of $500,000 honors Jere E. Goyan, late UCSF School of Pharmacy dean

Tue Feb 12, 2019

UC Regents

Jere E. Goyan, PhD, was the longest-serving dean of the School of Pharmacy and commissioner of the FDA.

The endowment will provide funds for a recipient to focus on delivering breakthroughs in therapeutics-related research, education, and patient care.

CRISPR-based obesity treatment shows promise for other diseases

Thu Jan 17, 2019

Ahituv, right, works in his lab with postdoc Fumitaka Inoue

Susan Merrell

Nadav Ahituv, PhD, right, was able to curb obesity in mice by tweaking two genes involved in controlling appetite.

A recent study by Nadav Ahituv, PhD, showed that obesity caused by a gene mutation could be treated in animal models.

COSA Winter Auction

Fri Jan 11, 2019

Fraser appointed to Bowes Biomedical Investigator Program

Wed Jan 9, 2019

Elisabeth Fall

James Fraser, PhD, developed new ways of doing crystallography over a wide range of temperatures.

Fraser developed several new tools for creating maps of macromolecules, a critical first step for finding new drugs.

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