Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Burchard named to expert panel for Obama’s precision medicine plan

Wed Apr 1, 2015

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

School faculty member Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH, has been appointed to an expert panel advising the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on how to develop President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative.

Update from the Dean - Spring/Summer 2015

Tue Mar 31, 2015

Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD
School of Pharmacy
University of California, San Francisco

Strategic planning; Top NIH funding; Recently received research funding (Craik, Gartner, Abate, Cole, Aweeka); Recent faculty publications (DeGrado, Ahituv, Cutler, Pon, Branch, Chuang, Huynh); Education (Youmans): UCSF Bridges Pharmacy Curriculum Project, DRIVE Team; new staff (Nguyen, Miller);...

Battling nightmare infections: U.S. CDC’s plan to beat superbugs

Mon Mar 30, 2015

Neely appointed BTS department manager and MSO

Mon Mar 9, 2015

Dear faculty and staff,

It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of William (Bill) Neely as the department manager and MSO for the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (BTS).

Lung research survey highlights lack of minority subjects in many biomedical studies

Tue Mar 3, 2015

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 35th year in a row

Thu Feb 26, 2015

Elisabeth Fall

Jeffrey Mugridge, PhD, postdoctoral scholar in the Gross Lab

For the 35th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

School researchers were awarded $31.8 million during the 2014 fiscal year, from October 1, 2013 to September 30,...

Robert Gibson: alumnus, educator, advocate

Mon Feb 23, 2015

Robert Gibson, PharmD, in 1976

School of Pharmacy alumnus Robert Gibson, PharmD '58, has been a tireless advocate for equality in education and in the profession of pharmacy, and is still active as a board member of the California Pharmacists Association Education Foundation.

It’s About A Billion Lives Symposium

Mon Jan 26, 2015

Keynote speaker: Robin Koval, President and CEO, American Legacy Foundation

Celebrating Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF

Most recent School of Pharmacy primary faculty hires, by department

Tue Dec 9, 2014

Elisabeth Fall

Steven Altschuler, PhD and Lani Wu, PhD are a husband-and-wife research team who recently moved their joint lab to UCSF. They are faculty members in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

The most recently hired faculty members to join the UCSF School of Pharmacy have research interests that range from the treatment of blood clots to mapping biological networks in cancer cells to understanding the molecular workings of ion channels in cell membranes. But they all share the common...

Desai Lab develops nanodevices to aid artery repair

Tue Nov 25, 2014

Kathleen Masterson

Kevin Lance, a graduate student in the Desai lab, holds thin-film blood-vessel wrap being developed to deliver anti-scarring drugs.

Research in the laboratory of Tejal Desai, PhD, is creating new kinds of drug delivery devices to reduce the scarring and inflammation that can undermine stents—metal mesh tubes implanted to prop open blocked arteries, including in the heart.

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