Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, the Diabetes Center at UCSF, and the UCSF School of Pharmacy have converted human skin cells into fully functional pancreatic cells that produce insulin in response to changes in glucose levels.

Dr. Andrew Brooks from the University of Queensland Diamantina Institute is giving a talk on Friday entitled, "Two tales about the Growth Hormone Receptor: The mechanism of JAK2 activation and an important role of Src Family kinase signaling in regulating inflammation."

Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty members have published the following manuscripts between October and December 2015.

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between October and December 2015:

Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and UCSF School of Pharmacy vice dean, is the newly elected Council of Deans Secretary, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).

James Wells, PhD, whose pioneering innovations in protein engineering and technologies to identify small molecules to aid in drug discovery have yielded more than 60 patents, launched three companies, and created two UCSF technology centers, has been elected as a fellow to the National Academy of...

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QBI Director and Professor

As director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI), I aim to create a framework that fosters open collaboration between scientists locally, domestically, and internationally, where each group brings something unique but highly complementary to the problem. At the onset of the current...