Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

A festive reception and dinner saluting all reunion classes and honoring the School of Pharmacy’s 2018 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.

Alumni and guests are invited to join Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, Resident Alum, for a lively discussion and exploration of science as the strong connecting thread uniting the School of Pharmacy’s pioneering research, education, and patient care. 

Topics 

Low-cost drug treatments can cure TB and malaria. Why, then, do these diseases claim so many lives?

The 122 members of the graduating class of 2018 received their PharmD degrees at commencement.

Yiqi Cao, a bioengineering PhD candidate, detailed a promising solution she developed for a heart stent that doesn’t trigger scar tissue buildup.

Andrej Sali, PhD, has been elected as a member of the 2018 class of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

The UCSF Asthma Collaboratory celebrates 20 years of research on genetic factors in asthma.

New research promises to take the guesswork out of matching individual cancer cases to the most effective choices of chemotherapy.

Kathy Giacomini, PhD, has been named the 2018 Volwiler Research Achievement Award recipient by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

Kathleen B. Kennedy, PharmD ’78, has been named our Distinguished Alumnus of the Year.