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Five School of Pharmacy researchers in first cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators

Tue Feb 14, 2017

Fifteen UC San Francisco faculty members have been named to the first cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators, including five from the School of Pharmacy.

$500M gift to UCSF will support faculty, students, innovation

Fri Jan 13, 2017

students wearing white coats and walking

To honor and build on a lifetime of giving and charitable service by the late Helen Diller, the Helen Diller Foundation has granted $500 million to UC San Francisco, a university to which Helen was both generous and devoted.

Renslo Lab develops new type of targeted chemotherapy that proves effective in mice

Mon Dec 12, 2016

Elisabeth Fall

Adam Renslo, PhD

Research in the lab of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Adam Renslo, PhD, has developed a new way of selectively targeting cancer cells with drugs. In experiments with mice, the new approach allowed for the delivery of fifty times higher doses of chemotherapy to tumors while avoiding toxic...

Prien and MacWilliam bequests establish new endowed professorships

Wed Dec 7, 2016

Foresight, newsletter of UCSF Office of Gift & Endowment Planning

Ernest Prien, BS ’34 and Mary MacWilliam, EdD, UC Berkeley, 1956

The UCSF School of Pharmacy has established new endowed faculty positions to be held by the chairs of two School departments.

Shoichet receives DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences

Thu Dec 1, 2016

Robert Rizzo

Graphic depiction of a typical DOCK setup used toward the discovery of a potential disease inhibitor—in this case, testing compounds for binding to an HIV protein.

Brian Shoichet, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2017 recipient of the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences.

FDA funds UCSF-Stanford CERSI

Tue Nov 15, 2016

agsandrew

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded the UCSF-Stanford Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (UCSF-Stanford CERSI) a five-year grant with up to $25 million in funding.

Immunizing Against Stress

Fri Nov 4, 2016

Giacomini honored with ASCPT Distinguished Service Award

Mon Oct 24, 2016

Kathy Giacomini, PhD

Kathy Giacomini, PhD, has been named the 2017 recipient of the Henry W. Elliott Distinguished Service Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT).

Three generations reflect shifts in nation, pharmacy profession

Wed Oct 19, 2016

Cindy Chew

Sharon (McPartland) Leaf, PharmD ’81, with her daughter, first-year student pharmacist Megan Lau.

When Megan Lau donned her white coat with fellow student pharmacists in the incoming class of 2020 last week, it was more than your standard rite of professional passage.

Class of 2020 student pharmacists don their white coats

Tue Oct 18, 2016

Cindy Chew

Ailin Kim and Alishia King receive their white coats from Andy Davenport, PharmD and Virginia Chu, PharmD ’98.

The 126 students of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s class of 2020 donned their white coats for the first time on October 14, 2016, in an afternoon ceremony that symbolized their entry into the profession.

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