Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

DeGrado receives Protein Society’s Stein and Moore Award

Wed Feb 11, 2015

William DeGrado, PhD

William DeGrado, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2015 recipient of The Protein Society’s Stein and Moore Award.

It’s About A Billion Lives Symposium

Mon Jan 26, 2015

Keynote speaker: Robin Koval, President and CEO, American Legacy Foundation

Celebrating Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF

Innovation in Education Awards go to Shin, Jacobson, Ferrone

Thu Jan 8, 2015

The glass apple is awarded as a symbol of the Dean's Innovation in Education Award. Honorees also received $1,000.

The inaugural presentation of the Dean’s Innovation in Education Awards took place during the School of Pharmacy faculty meeting at Mission Hall on the Mission Bay campus on January 6, 2015.

Huang advances to tenured position as associate professor

Fri Dec 19, 2014

Bo Huang, PhD

Bo Huang, PhD, has received tenure and advanced to the position of associate professor. He is a faculty member in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Craik named a fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Thu Dec 18, 2014

Charles S. Craik, PhD

Charles S. Craik, PhD, whose innovative research has generated ten patents and helped launch two companies, has been named a fellow by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Most recent School of Pharmacy primary faculty hires, by department

Tue Dec 9, 2014

Elisabeth Fall

Steven Altschuler, PhD and Lani Wu, PhD are a husband-and-wife research team who recently moved their joint lab to UCSF. They are faculty members in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

The most recently hired faculty members to join the UCSF School of Pharmacy have research interests that range from the treatment of blood clots to mapping biological networks in cancer cells to understanding the molecular workings of ion channels in cell membranes. But they all share the common...

Lei Wang, PhD

Wed Dec 3, 2014

Professor

I am interested in building proteins in living cells using new amino acids. By designing novel properties into the new amino acids, my lab probes biological processes in their native settings and engineer unique biomolecules to understand disease mechanisms and to develop new protein drugs.

Andrew Braisted Lecture

Fri Sep 26, 2014

This endowed lecture was established by UCSF and UC Berkeley to bring together San Francisco Bay Area scientists who work at the interface of chemistry and biology. The lecture was established in memory of Andrew Braisted, a young scientist in chemical biology who had strong ties to UCSF, UCB, and...

Full circle: Startup scores big deal with Pfizer—and QB3 is happy

Mon Sep 22, 2014

Frontiers in Biophysics and Chemical Biology: a symposium in honor of Bill DeGrado

Sun Sep 21, 2014

Chemical biology is a rapidly growing and changing field. This symposium highlights recent developments in chemical biology, outlines grand challenges in medicinal chemistry, and provides a platform for discussion on how these challenges can be met.

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