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Radio show leads to campus invite for aspiring chef-pharmacist, age 10

Mon Sep 24, 2012

Audrey Dilling, KALW Local Public Radio 91.7FM

Future Chef and Pharmacist, Lita Hernandez

A community storytelling initiative by a public radio station has yielded a surprising connection between an East Oakland fifth grader and Sharon L.

Shu receives NIH New Innovator Award to study protein interactions

Fri Sep 14, 2012

Xiaokun Shu, PhD

Xiaokun Shu, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator award, which will provide up to $1.5 million in research funding over the next five

Study finds new role in cell division for well-known transport protein

Fri Sep 7, 2012

New research has found that the protein clathrin, well known as a building block of containers used to transport biological cargo inside cells, also plays a key role in helping cells divide properly.

New ways to tackle cancer-causing virus, eye disease win CTSI funding awards

Fri Aug 31, 2012

Charles S. Craik, PhD and Tejal Desai, PhD

A promising new way to fight human herpes viruses and a drug delivery device to better treat a major cause of blindness have won development funding from UCSF’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI).

Conflicts of interest significantly underreported in systematic reviews of drug efficacy, safety

Wed Aug 29, 2012

Cindy Chew

Lisa Bero, PhD

Systematic reviews seek to answer key questions about the relative effectiveness and safety of medical interventions by selecting, combining, and critically evaluating the research in published medical literature.

Q&A with UCSF student pharmacist winners of national Clinical Skills Competition

Wed Aug 29, 2012

Student pharmacists Katie Alvarez and Matthew Chang

Matthew Chang and Katie Alvarez, UCSF School of Pharmacy student pharmacists, are the winners of the 2012 Clinical Skills Competition held during the national meeting of the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (

Master of Translational Medicine program gets final UC approval

Thu Aug 9, 2012

Tejal Desai, PhD, program co-director

Two years after launching as a pilot effort, an innovative graduate curriculum in translational medicine jointly offered by UCSF and UC Berkeley has received final approval from University of California President Mark Yudof as a master’s degree program.

Home monitoring of heart failure via web-enabled bathroom scales wins award funding

Tue Aug 7, 2012

Elisabeth Fall

Mozziyar Etemadi, MS

Can a retrofitted bathroom scale costing less than $100 save lives and improve the health of millions of Americans living with heart failure while cutting billions of dollars in annual health care spending?

Child’s illness fuels lab team’s search for early-life epilepsy diagnostics

Mon Jul 23, 2012

Postdoctoral fellow Ramon Birnbaum, PhD, and daughter Ruth.

The lab of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Nadav Ahituv, PhD, studies how abnormalities in DNA segments that control the activity of genes could lead to diseases.

Guglielmo named interim dean of UCSF School of Pharmacy

Tue Jun 12, 2012

Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD

Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, has been named interim dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, and will take the reins of the school from outgoing Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

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