Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Lounge Ligands

Wed Nov 16, 2022
Digitally illustrated ligand lounging on a couch
John Walter
Lounge Ligands is a new art installation by QBI artist-in-residence John Walter, hosted by Professor Brian Shoichet. 

UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute and Institut Pasteur form center to fight infectious disease

Fri Oct 28, 2022
Krogan and Cole
© Institut Pasteur / François Gardy

QBI Director Nevan Krogan, PhD, and Professor Stewart Cole, PhD, president of the Institut Pasteur, sign the memorandum of understanding for the new Institut Pasteur-UCSF QBI Center of Excellence in Emerging Infectious Diseases at a ceremony in the historic Musée Pasteur in Paris, France.

QBI Director Krogan receives the Legion of Honor, France’s highest award

A new era for science and practice at UCSF

Tue Oct 25, 2022
An aerial view of San Francisco
Brian Haux
Giacomini gathers a leadership team in pursuit of a new vision for the School of Pharmacy.

Team science in modern cancer immunology: embracing complexity thru collaboration, a QBI/SBI online seminar with Kimberly Luddy

Mon Oct 24, 2022
Speaker Kimberly Luddy on brown, yellow, and white celtic, geometric background
The QBI/SBI Seminar Series presents Kimberly Luddy, Senior Research Project Specialist in the Cancer Biology and Evolution Program at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. Kimberly Luddy is an experimental and theoretical immunologist working at the interface of evolutionary biology...

Virtual drug screening leads to new compounds to treat pain and depression

Thu Oct 13, 2022
Shoichet
Elisabeth Fall

Brian Shoichet, PhD

Shoichet’s “docking” approach continues to produce better drugs with fewer side effects.

A Virus Walks Into a Bar: a Film by John Walter

Wed Oct 12, 2022
Four people in yellow, orange, and purple hooded sweatsuits acting as proteins. One person wearing sweatsuit inside large yellow bubble acting as a cell nucleus.
Join us for a live screening of the film A Virus Walks Into A Bar by John Walter, QBI’s artist in residence. A Virus Walks Into A Bar is Walter’s most ambitious film to date. It narrates the life cycle of an HIV as if it were set somewhere between Coronation Street and Twin Peaks.

Controlling the message: herpesviral manipulation of mammalian gene expression pathways, a QBI/Gladstone Online Seminar with Britt Glaunsinger

Mon Oct 10, 2022
Speaker Britt Glaunsinger headshot
The QBI & Gladstone Institute Infectious Disease and Human Health Seminar Series presents Britt Glaunsinger, Professor and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, as well as a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology.

Unlocking the secrets of Graves’ disease

Thu Oct 6, 2022
Manglik and Cheng

Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD, left, and Yifan Cheng, PhD.

Manglik, Cheng, and colleagues break decades-long impasse in understanding a common autoimmune disorder.

A stimulus-contingent positive feedback loop enables IFN-β dose-dependent activation of pro-inflammatory genes: a QBI Hybrid Seminar with Catera Wilder

Mon Oct 3, 2022
Speaker Catera Wilder on yellow geometric background
The QBI Seminar Series presents Catera Wilder, assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California San Francisco and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering (2016) under the direction of Manu...

Updating old models by studying the dynamics of RNA Pol II transcription: a QBI Hybrid Seminar with Stephen Buratowski

Mon Oct 3, 2022
Speaker Stephen Buratowski on a blue geometric background
The QBI Seminar Series presents Stephen Buratowski, professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Stephen Buratowski received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1984. He did his PhD thesis work with Dr. Phillip A....

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