School of Pharmacy

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
, NIH

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

PharmD Class of 2022 celebrates graduation in person

Tue Jun 7, 2022
Kearney places a graduation hood on a student on stage
Cindy Chew

Interim Dean Thomas E. Kearney, PharmD, places a graduation hood on Matthew Spencer Ocampo, PharmD ’22, during the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s 2022 Commencement.

Commencement ushers in a new normal for honoring the School’s graduates

Jennifer La selected as 2022 Bowl of Hygeia winner

Tue Jun 7, 2022
La standing in cap and gown and holding golden bowl
Cindy Chew

Jennifer La, PharmD ’22, received the Bowl of Hygeia Award, the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s highest honor for pharmacy graduates.

Winning PharmD student greeted with a roar of cheers at this year’s commencement

Register now for UCSF Pride contingent

Thu Jun 2, 2022
UCSF Pride Parade Contingent
Michael Short

Join the UCSF community and walk with pride!

Register now to walk with the UCSF community at the SF Pride Parade

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

Tue May 24, 2022
Bridgeland.
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
A researcher injects fluid into containers

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

Award is the largest NIH grant in UCSF history

Dean’s Apple Teaching Awards for winter 2022

Mon May 16, 2022
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Faculty and student instructors who received outstanding scores on student evaluations were recognized

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

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