Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

We are rapidly moving forward to develop a doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum that will prepare pharmacists to excel in a changing health care marketplace. A recent interview with Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, our vice dean, lays out our plans. What will be the impact of the new curriculum?

The UCSF School of Pharmacy’s top-ranked doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) curriculum is in the initial stages of its most significant transformation in two decades. Named the UCSF Bridges Pharmacy Curriculum Project, the effort is led by Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and is currently...

Concluding a year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of UC San Francisco, the School of Pharmacy presented its own “Making History” event in Byers Auditorium on the Mission Bay campus on May 30, 2015.

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between April and June 2015:

4/24/2015: John Gross was awarded a new R21 grant from the NIH/NIAID, “Developing Small Molecule Screens for Vif-APRBEC3 antagonists.” The project will run until 2017.

Jim Wells, professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, is having a symposium.

UCSF School of Pharmacy presents "The Timeless Science of Jim Wells," Symposium & Reception.

8:00 am until Last Call
 

Studies of pharmacist interventions during comprehensive medication reviews, the impact of new tools to aid drug selection from a hospital formulary, and a project ensuring that hospital patients receiving anti-clotting drugs are properly educated upon discharge took top honors at the Department of...