School of Pharmacy

A universal mechanism for activation of MST2 during Hippo signal transduction: a QBI online seminar with Jennifer Kavran

Wed Feb 17, 2021

The QBI Online Seminar Series is presenting Jennifer Kavran, an assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kavran's lab is focused on understanding the regulation of the Hippo core kinase cassette using a...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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