Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

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,...

New associate deans focus on global affairs and industry partnerships

Mon Feb 23, 2009

Two new associate dean positions have been created in the UCSF School of Pharmacy to expand the School’s partnerships with industry and extend its work globally. This work now will be coordinated by Daniel Santi, MD, PhD, associate dean of external scientific affairs and Steven Kayser, PharmD,...

Wells notes need for academia in drug discovery research and advocacy

Mon Dec 8, 2008

James Wells, PhD, chair, department of pharmaceutical chemistry in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, shares his thoughts on the need for increased public awareness about the ultimate value of science to health and the opportunities now presenting themselves to university scientists

Advocates needed for basic science research

Wed Oct 15, 2008

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Scientists need to speak out now—as individuals and through advocacy groups—to educate the public about the importance of basic science research and to rally support for more funding, according to an October 3, 2008 editorial in Science.

Predicting protein shape: the next research challenge

Fri Aug 15, 2008

Ken A. Dill and Hue Sun Chan, Nature Structural Biology, January 1997, Volume 4, No. 1.

Energy landscape image that represents the reduction of conformational entropy as protein chains fold to their native states

Understanding protein folding is key to understanding what goes wrong in diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, that result when proteins misfold. UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty members Ken Dill, PhD, and Andrej Sali, PhD, comment on the history of and next steps in protein folding research.

Update from the Dean - Spring/Summer 2008

Fri Aug 1, 2008

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

PharmD Program reaccredited through 2014 and funding problems; Science Squad; Program for Investigation and Training for Careers in Health; Summer Science Camp; Huntington and Schweitzer Fellowship; #1 in NIH funding again; California Poison Control System at risk; tobacco ban legislation; Ambrose...

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