Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Chemicals used to turn skin cells into heart and brain cells

In a major breakthrough, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, led by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Sheng Ding, PhD, have transformed skin cells into heart and brain cells using combinations of chemicals.

Publications: Winter 2016

Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty members have published the following manuscripts between January and March 2016:



saRNA-guided Ago2 targets the RITA complex to promoters to stimulate transcription.
Portnoy V, Lin SH, Li KH, Burlingame A, Hu ZH, Li H, Li LC. Cell Res. 2016 Mar;26(3):...

Grants & Fellowships: Winter 2016

Members of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry have received the following grants and fellowships between January and March 2016:





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3/3/2016

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 36th year in a row

For the 36th 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.

Fragment-based discovery: using smaller molecules to solve larger challenges

To discover new drugs and chemical probes, researchers have traditionally screened small molecules—small enough by weight to pass through cell membranes.

Seminar: 2 inactive 4 destruction or The tails of p63

Professor Volker Dötsch, PhD, Professor at the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Goethe University, is giving a seminar entitled "2 inactive 4 destruction, or The tails of p63." The seminar will be held on April 6, 2016, from 12-1 pm in Mission Hall room 1401.

Antibody Technology Research Center Symposium

The Antibody Technology Research Center Symposium is a one-day conference on cutting-edge technologies for recombinant antibody generation and engineering for difficult and important targets including the secreteome, active protein conformers, and post-translationally modified proteins.

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