Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

School of Pharmacy biotech symposium features case histories of future pharmaceuticals

Tue Aug 9, 2011

, UC Regents

The 2nd Annual Bay Area Biotechnology Symposium, presented by the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Industry Outreach Program in coordination with the UCSF Postdoctoral Scholars Association at Mission Bay in late May 2011, fully lived up to its billing: “Pharmaceuticals of the Futur

Finley provides medication therapy management to patients with depression

Thu May 26, 2011

Patrick Finley, PharmD, BCPP

Psychiatric pharmacist Patrick Finley, PharmD, BCPP, spends his days not behind the pharmacy counter, but in the clinic interviewing patients with depression, determining the provisional diagnosis, selecting and prescribing medications, and working with patients over the long hau

Pharmaceutical chemistry postdoc job fair draws crowd

Thu May 19, 2011

A job fair to help postdoctoral fellows and final-year PhD graduate students in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy connect with private industry amid a brightening job market drew a packed house on UCSF

Searle Scholar awards go to UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty 2 years in a row

Tue May 3, 2011

Danica Fujimori (left) and Bo Huang (right), Searle Scholars

Danica Galonić Fujimori, PhD, a faculty member in the UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine has been named a 2011 Searle Scholar. Her UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty colleague, Bo Huang, PhD, earned the honor in 2010.

A year in the life of PhD student Robin Aglietti

Fri Apr 1, 2011

Robin Aglietti committed to taking one photo each day for calendar year 2010, and she succeeded. The kind of commitment needed to carry out this self-imposed photo assignment is also needed to be a scientist, she explains.

Wells receives the Bristol-Myers Squibb Smissman Award

Wed Mar 30, 2011

James Wells, PhD, chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy, has been honored with the 2011 Bristol-Myers Squibb Smissman Award. The Smissman Award calls attention to a senior scientist whose work has had a substantial impact on the intellectual and theoretical...

Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2011

Tue Mar 1, 2011

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

US$1 billion budget gap, student fee increases likely to continue, Levens Lipton keynote address to CPhA, Nkansah and the Dr. Oz television show, Bero and The Cochrane Collaboration and the World Health Assembly, Roy unveils model of bioartificial kidney; Faculty awards: Huang, Galonić Fujimori,...

Craik recognized as an AAAS fellow

Tue Feb 22, 2011

Charles Craik, PhD

Charles S. Craik, PhD, a UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member, has joined the ranks of elected Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Gartner to lead study on the interactions of cells in breast cancer

Tue Jan 18, 2011

Zev Gartner, PhD

Zev Gartner, PhD, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, will lead a US$3.2 million grant to study the interaction of different types of cells in breast cancer at its earliest stages.

Reflection: 30 years of top NIH funding for UCSF School of Pharmacy

Wed Dec 22, 2010

Kathy Giacomini, PhD (center), co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, discusses research results in the lab with postdocs Sook Wah Yee (left), and Amber Dahlin (right).

Table of contents

Introduction
Budget significance
Reasons for past success
A decade of funding for bioinformatics
New drug discovery directions attract support

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