Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Giacomini lays out her vision for the UCSF School of Pharmacy

Tue Jul 5, 2022
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UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Kathy Giacomini, PhD, BSPharm

New dean aims to elevate the pharmacy profession

New clues in the hunt for Alzheimer’s therapies

Tue Jun 21, 2022
The Alzheimer's disease brain, with build ups of tau protein on the inside and beta amyloid protein on the outside
National Institute on Aging
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An illustration of neurons along with two types of damaging protein aggregates found in the Alzheimer’s disease brain: beta-amyloid plaques (brown) and tau protein tangles (blue). UCSF researchers have discovered a third type of aggregate associated with the disease, made of fragments of tau protein (not depicted).

Pharmaceutical chemist Arkin and neurologist Grinberg discover a new protein aggregate in Alzheimer’s disease.

Getting the Message Across: How Cell Signaling Goes Awry in Human Disease

Fri Jun 10, 2022
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The Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) at UCSF is presenting a live Twitter interview hosted by QBI Fellow Kliment Verba to chat with his colleague Natalia Jura, who was the 27th recipient of the annual Byers Award in Basic Bi

More United: Collaboration in the Time of Covid: a QBI/Gladstone Symposium with John Bridgeland

Tue May 24, 2022
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The QBI & Gladstone Institute Infectious Disease and Human Health Seminar Series presents John Bridgeland, Founder & CEO of Civic, a social enterprise firm in Washington, D.C. He is also Executive Chairman of the Office of American Possibilities, a moonshot factory to tap the...

Not everything in life is sh#$%: how enteric viruses transmit

Fri May 20, 2022
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Nihal Altan-Bonnet, PhD

The QBI & Gladstone Institute Infectious Disease and Human Health Seminar Series presents Dr. Nihal Altan-Bonnet, Head of the Laboratory of Host-Pathogen Dynamics at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

UCSF QBI Coronavirus Research Group awarded $67.5 million to develop therapies for future pandemics

Wed May 18, 2022
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Research associate Antoine Forget, PhD, works in the lab of QCRG founder Nevan Krogan, PhD.

Award is the largest NIH grant in UCSF history

UC launches Center for Climate, Health and Equity

Thu May 12, 2022
Climate Health

UCSF students and faculty gather at Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office to discuss climate policy.

Learn how the health sector can advance equitable and just climate actions in a series of upcoming live virtual events

Confronting Racism Denial – Equity and Inclusion Speaker Series

Tue May 10, 2022
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Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD

Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, delivered a lecture on how systems of racism function and persist in our world

Update from the Dean: Passing the torch

Mon May 9, 2022
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Kaz Tsuruta

Interim Dean Thomas E. Kearney, PharmD

Interim Dean Thomas Kearney provides the latest on the School’s activities and announces the selection of the next dean, Kathy Giacomini, PhD

Giacomini named dean of UCSF School of Pharmacy

Wed May 4, 2022
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Noah Berger

Kathy Giacomini, PhD, will take the helm of the School of Pharmacy as dean on July 1, 2022.

Renowned pharmaceutical scientist brings decades of experience at the intersection of research, patient care, and education to lead the School

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