Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

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.

Burchard study finds Latino asthma risk varies with genetic ancestry

Tue Oct 7, 2014

Percentage prevalence of asthma in U.S. children

A new analysis of nearly 5,500 Latino children with and without asthma led by School scientists has found that variations in their genetic ancestry can partially explain major differences in their risk of developing the disease.

Burchard commentary calls for more diversity in biomedical research

Thu Sep 18, 2014

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

Authoring the lead commentary in the current special issue of Nature devoted to diversity, School faculty member Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH, asserts that the clinical and biomedical research infrastructure “needs to be retooled” to include more diverse patient populations in studies.

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