School of Pharmacy

Transcription factor binding to DNA mismatches – a potential driver of increased mutagenesis at regulatory sites: a QBI online seminar with Raluca Gordan

Wed Feb 17, 2021
Gordan.
The QBI Online Seminar Series is presenting Raluca Gordan, an associate professor in the Center for Genomic and Computational Biology at Duke University. She received her PhD degree from Duke University in 2009, followed by postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School.

Cancer drug stops SARS-CoV-2 in the lab

Thu Feb 11, 2021
sea squirt.
PharmaMar

Aplidin is extracted from Aplidium albicans, a sea squirt found off the coast of Spain.

“If you get a drug that targets a human protein, it would be incredibly hard for the virus to mutate away from being reliant on it,” said Nevan Krogan, the director of QBI.

Pharmacy community lends hand to UCSF COVID-19 vaccine effort

Wed Feb 10, 2021
Aludino and employee record dose of vaccine
Susan Merrell

UCSF pharmacy student Matthew Aludino, right, scans a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine prior to administering it on the first day of vaccinations at UCSF, December 16, 2020.

Pharmacy students, technicians, faculty members, and providers all pitched in to the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Revealing enzyme functional architecture via high-throughput microfluidic enzyme kinetics: a QBI online seminar with Craig Markin

Wed Feb 3, 2021
Markin.
Craig Markin is a postdoctoral fellow working jointly with Professors Dan Herschlag and Polly Fordyce at Stanford University, where he has developed HT-MEK (High-Throughput Microfluidic Enzyme Kinetics), a novel microfluidics-based assay to express, purify, and quantitatively measure libraries of...

Town Hall: A look at School efforts to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine

Thu Jan 28, 2021
School of Pharmacy - Town Hall (January 28, 2021)
Join School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, for the latest on the COVID-19 vaccines and news from the School.

Synthetic biomaterial guides cancer therapy to hidden tumors

Wed Jan 20, 2021
DNA double helix

Tejal Desai, PhD, and colleagues took inspiration from the structure of DNA to engineer a biomaterial that promises to improve CAR-T cell therapy for various cancers.

Advance opens up new possibilities for CAR T-cell therapy to treat a variety of cancers

PharmD Class of 2020 formally celebrates graduation

Tue Jan 12, 2021
Guglielmo

Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD opened the ceremony by highlighting frontline health care workers, physicians, nurses, pharmacists and scientists working to combat COVID-19.

The School’s recent PharmD graduates were honored with a virtual commencement ceremony.

Autobahn collaboration to accelerate UCSF innovation from bench to bedside

Fri Jan 8, 2021

Tejal Desai on refusing to take “no” for an answer

Mon Dec 28, 2020

2020 end-of-year office availability

Tue Dec 22, 2020
calendar of December 2020
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry administrative offices and most Dean's Office units will be closed or have limited availability during the week between the winter holidays.

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