Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Bio-artificial Kidney Project Hoping to Raise Funds Through Social Media Crowdfunding Effort

Thu Sep 3, 2015

Roy receives JDRF funding to develop implants to treat type 1 diabetes

Tue Sep 1, 2015

Silicon nanopore membranes developed in the Roy Lab will provide material to encapsulate pancreatic islets.

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Shuvo Roy, PhD, has received a three-year $1 million grant to create surgically implantable capsules of donor pancreas cells to free type 1 diabetes patients from daily insulin injections and the disease’s potentially life-threatening complications.

Jacobson named chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Wed Aug 12, 2015

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Matt Jacobson, PhD

Renowned researcher and educator Matthew Jacobson, PhD, has been named the new chair of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. His appointment by Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, will be effective January 15, 2016.

Kroetz leads new study of genetics of cancer drugs’ dose-limiting side effects

Mon Jul 27, 2015

Deanna Kroetz, PhD

Taxanes are a class of drugs widely used to treat a variety of cancers, including breast, ovarian, lung, gastric, and head and neck. But dosages are often limited by toxic side effects—most commonly damage to the body’s peripheral nerves, causing numbness, pain, and/or hyper-sensitivity—that can...

Study discovers why leading gout medication is ineffective for many

Tue Jul 14, 2015

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Spiked rods of uric acid crystals from synovial fluid photographed under a microscope with polarized light. In patients with gout, such crystals can accumulate in the joints, causing pain and inflammation.

Allopurinol, the first-choice medication for treating gout—an excruciatingly painful condition that is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis, afflicts more than eight million Americans, and is on the rise worldwide—is not fully effective in more than half of patients.

Sali named associate dean of research

Tue Jun 30, 2015

Andrej Sali, PhD

Andrej Sali, PhD, has been appointed associate dean of research of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, effective July 1, 2015. The appointment is in addition to Sali’s full professorship in the School’s Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences.

Study discovers simple rules underlying complex brain development in fly

Mon Jun 29, 2015

Langen et al. / Cell 2015

A fruit fly’s compound eye contains 800 prism-like facets whose six distinct photoreceptor cells capture light coming in from different angles in space. These signals must all find their way to different spots in the fly brain’s visual map of the world.

How does brain circuitry organize itself during development? In at least one case—the seemingly complex visual system of the fruit fly, which connects its 800-facet compound eyes to its brain—the answer lies in just three simple rules.

Taking a road less traveled: 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Pamela Schweitzer

Mon Jun 29, 2015

RADM Pamela Schweitzer, PharmD ’87

The 2015 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year is Rear Admiral Pamela Schweitzer, PharmD ’87. The recognition by the Pharmacy Alumni Association is given to the School graduate who has made outstanding contributions to the profession of pharmacy, to society, and/or to UCSF.

A new California law widens the power of pharmacists, allowing them to prescribe contraceptives and other drugs directly to patients

Mon Jun 29, 2015

BTS goes to the opera!

Tue Jun 23, 2015

Peterson wearing an ornamental gown costume

Frances at the opera.

We are thrilled that our very own diva Frances Peterson is singing in her first-ever appearance at the San Francisco Opera, in The Trojans by Berlioz.

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