Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Remembering Edward Leong Way

Thu Jul 6, 2017

Edward Leong Way at birthday celebration

Edward Leong Way celebrated his 100th birthday in July 2016, surrounded by friends, family, and UCSF colleagues.

Edward (Eddie) Leong Way, PhD, UCSF School of Pharmacy alumnus, UCSF faculty member, and dear friend, died peacefully at home in San Francisco on June 12, 2017, four weeks before his 101st birthday.

Two scientific teams independently make key biological advance

Tue Jun 13, 2017

Grants and Fellowships: Spring 2017

Fri Jun 9, 2017

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between April and June 2017:

UCSF School of Pharmacy celebrates Commencement 2017

Thu May 25, 2017

Elisabeth Fall

Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, places the hood on Phong Ho at 2017 commencement.

The UCSF School of Pharmacy conferred the doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree on 120 graduates at its 2017 commencement on May 19 at Louise Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.

Grad Slam 2017 winners

Mon May 22, 2017

Noah Berger

Grad Slam runner-up Ashley Smart said the competition is a reminder that the scientific research done in labs is achieving a broader goal.

The third annual Grad Slam, held March 16, featured 10 UCSF graduate students competing to inform and entertain with three-minute science talks based on their own research. Their subjects ranged from the genetics of aging to the rewiring of injured neural circuits to spinal changes in astronauts.

Craik elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Fri May 5, 2017

Charles S. Craik, PhD

Charles S. Craik, PhD, joins the 237th class of newly elected members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences who will be inducted on October 7, 2017 at a ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Grants and Fellowships: Winter 2017

Tue Mar 28, 2017

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between January and March 2017:

2/28/2017: Steven Altschuler was awarded a grant by Project ALS for his project entitled, "Deep phenotypic profiling of healthy and ALS diseased fibroblasts." The project...

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 37th year in a row

Mon Mar 27, 2017

UCSF Schools are #1 in National Institutes of Health research funding, School of Pharmacy, School of Nursing, School of Dentistry, School of Medicine, with School of Pharmacy emphasized

For the 37th 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 $28.2 million in grants during NIH’s 2016 fiscal year, from October 1, 2015 to...

Update from the Dean - March 2017

Wed Mar 15, 2017

Nation debates possibility of dramatically new directions for health care coverage, science funding, immigration, education; Revealing malaria/HIV drug interactions in children; Decreasing cancer drug toxicity while increasing dose; Engineering safer opioids; Evidence for comprehensive medication...

Fujimori delivers 2017 Byers Award Lecture on tackling antibiotic resistance

Wed Feb 15, 2017

Susan Merrell

Danica Galonić Fujimori, PhD, delivers the 2017 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science. Her topic was the problem of antibiotic resistance and how research may help keep drugs effective.

Since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1940, countless lives have been saved by antibiotics. But their effectiveness is severely compromised by the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, accelerated by the over-prescription of antibiotics and their widespread use as growth...

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