Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Update from the Dean - Spring/Summer 2009

Mon Aug 3, 2009

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

New chancellor: Desmond-Hellman; budget update: 4% to 10% salary cuts via furloughs, possibly to be renewed; risk of poison control system closure; new Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences; faculty honors and awards: Burchard, Peck, Desai, Roy, Bero, MacDougall, Hessol, Phillips,...

Voigt and Tabor talk synthetic biology on TV

Wed Jul 29, 2009

Synthetic biologist and UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Christopher Voigt, PhD, and Jeffrey Tabor, a postdoctoral scholar in Voigt's laboratory, discuss the field and promise of synthetic biology in this July 21, 2009 KQED television segment.

Deans call for changes in PharmD accreditation

Thu Jun 25, 2009

UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD (image left), and Marilyn Speedie, PhD (image right), dean of the College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, are advocating for immediate changes in how

Protein found that regulates glucose in humans, not in mice

Tue Jun 2, 2009

A team of scientists, who were led by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Frances Brodsky, DPhil, have found in humans a protein responsible for glucose metabolism that is not present in mice.

UCSF welcomes Chancellor Desmond-Hellmann

Fri May 8, 2009

Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, pioneering cancer researcher and biotechnology industry executive who most recently served as president of product development for the biotechnology company, Genentech, Inc., was named chancellor of UCSF

New Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Mon Apr 27, 2009

The UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, which is UCSF's first department administered jointly by two schools, was announced today to the campus community by UCSF Chancellor J.

Study reveals how to make gasoline from yeast and bacterium

Wed Apr 22, 2009

(left to right) Research team members Daniel Widmaier, Travis Bayer, principal investigator Christopher Voigt, Ethan Mirsky, and Karsten Temme in the Voigt Lab at the University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay Campus. Missing from the photo is Daniel Santi.

A chemical precursor molecule of gasoline can be produced from biomass and salt, according to research by UCSF School of Pharmacy's Christopher Voigt, PhD, and UCSF colleagues.

Sali to lead California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)

Thu Apr 9, 2009

Andrej Sali, PhD, faculty member and vice chair, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (BTS), UCSF Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy has been appointed director of the

UCSF helps faculty seek federal stimulus funds

Thu Mar 5, 2009

The UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty and its UCSF faculty colleagues are being aided by the campus in their requests for funds provided to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by the American Recovery and Reinvestm

Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2009

Mon Mar 2, 2009

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

Dire financial times, budget tightens. San Diego satellite program to end. Honors and Awards: Benet, Giacomini, Kroetz, Winter, Day, Yokoyama, Soller, Vogt, Wang, Saraiya, Elmore, Clemens, Rocklin, Heller. New associate deans Santi and Kayser. New faculty: Gartner, Roy. Pharmacogenomics: Phillips,...

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