Department of Clinical Pharmacy

The right dose: how pharmacy researchers are making medicine more precise

Tue Dec 8, 2015

Healing Hands: Pharmacist Janel Boyle, PharmD, PhD (far left), who is developing dosing models tailored for children, comforts a young patient with her mother in the infusion clinic at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.

Reprinted courtesy of UCSF Magazine.

In the pediatric bone marrow transplant clinic, pharmacist Janel Boyle’s past and present collide.

She drifts past young patients—many of them infants and toddlers—and notes their beaming smiles and balding heads. Her gaze shifts to the parents, their...

8 Questions To Ask Your Pharmacist

Mon Nov 30, 2015

Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2015

Tue Nov 3, 2015

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

Strategic planning; Recently received research funding: cancer, Alzheimer's, HIV, type 2 diabetes (Kroetz, Keiser, Gross, Roy); Recent faculty publications: fibrosis, biofilms, gout (DeGrado, Yang, Giacomini); Collaborations and partnerships; Patient care: SB 493, scope of practice for California...

Yang study demonstrates simulator to study antibiotic dosing against biofilms

Thu Oct 29, 2015

Katherine Yang

In these multiple images of P. aeruginosa biofilm a bacterial community that takes the form of mushroom-like structures. The main, upper left image looks down at the biofilm, the lower, right-hand images show cross-sections. This biofilm was cultured from the airways of a patient with cystic fibrosis.

Nearly every human bacterial infection—including some of the most serious, life threatening, and costly to treat—can take the form of a biofilm, in which bacteria aggregate into structured communities that enclose themselves within a secreted slime.

Desai elected to the National Academy of Medicine

Tue Oct 20, 2015

Cindy Chew

Tejal Desai, PhD

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Tejal Desai, PhD, has been newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), formerly known as the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

Brilliant 10: Zev Gartner Builds Tissues That Snap Together Like Legos

Wed Sep 30, 2015

UCSF-Amgen Symposium

Tue Sep 15, 2015

The UCSF School of Pharmacy Industry Outreach Program presents a UCSF-Amgen Symposium.

This event will comprise two sessions:

Antibody Network partners with Celgene to develop cancer therapies

Tue Sep 15, 2015

Elisabeth Fall

James Wells, PhD

A new collaboration between Celgene Corp. and the Recombinant Antibody Network (RAN) will support the development of next-generation, antibody-based cancer therapies.

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.

MacDougall named to Academy of Medical Educators

Wed Aug 19, 2015

Elisabeth Fall

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, BCPS

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, BCPS, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, and an award-winning teacher in the School’s doctor of pharmacy degree program, has been named a new member of the Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators.

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