School of Pharmacy

New Alzheimer’s drug is for those with mild cognitive impairment. But who has that disorder?

Fri Oct 8, 2021

Bay Area research team wins prize for working prototype of artificial kidney

Thu Sep 30, 2021

Kroetz named next chair of Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Wed Sep 29, 2021
Scientist in a blue laboratory coat
Elisabeth Fall

Deanna Kroetz, PhD

Kroetz brings expertise in both science and pharmacy education to her new role as department chair.

Future pharmacists learn to deliver patient care during COVID-19

Fri Sep 24, 2021
Masked student prepares a medication for injection in the emergency room
Paul Takamoto

Pharmacy student So Young Kim, Class of 2023, prepares cefepime, an antibiotic, for a patient in septic shock as part of her introductory pharmacy practice experience (IPPE) in the UCSF Emergency Department.

Amid strict precautions to prevent transmission of COVID-19, PharmD students gain necessary experience with in-person pharmacy practice.

Caregiving for older relatives & friends webinar

Tue Sep 21, 2021
Aronson

Louise Aronson, MD, MFA   Geriatrician, Author of Elderhood and other books

September 29, 2021, webinar: Dr. Louise Aronson, UCSF geriatrician and author of the New York Times bestseller Elderhood discusses caring for older family members or friends.

Zhou, Hsia, and Cocohoba honored by UCSF Academy of Medical Educators

Tue Sep 21, 2021
Patient and Cocohoba holding a microphone
Elisabeth Fall

Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD, MAS, right, conducts a patient check-in in front of PharmD students in 2018.

Zhou and Hsia were inducted into the Academy, and Cocohoba received the Excellence in Teaching Award

The Laboratory for Genomics Research offers Innovation Awards

Tue Sep 14, 2021
CRISPR model being held up in a laboratory
The Laboratory for Genomics Research
The $100,000, one-year awards will support the development of groundbreaking technologies in the field of functional genomics.

The Kidney Project successfully tests a prototype bioartificial kidney

Thu Sep 9, 2021
two blue plates with tubes
The Kidney Project

The Kidney Project’s bioartificial kidney, which was successfully implanted in a preclinical model.

The Kidney Project earned a $650,000 award for a successful demonstration of its artificial kidney

Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science: a QBI online seminar with Peter Hotez

Thu Sep 2, 2021
Hotez.
The QBI & Gladstone Institute Infectious Disease and Human Health Seminar Series present Peter Hotez, PhD, Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and Professor of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology & Microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Professor at Baylor University.

Data-driven drug dosing speeds tuberculosis treatment to four months

Mon Aug 30, 2021
bacterial cells
NIAID/NIH

Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis

A large trial of a new drug regimen for tuberculosis, designed in part by School researchers, leads to a new WHO recommendation for treating the disease.

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