School of Pharmacy

Science in the Time of Corona: Has COVID-19 changed how women and mothers do research, and what can we learn from this?

Wed Jul 29, 2020
people in online meeting.
Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) presents Science in the Time of Corona, a live show where scientists discuss how COVID-19 has changed science. Join us for a discussion with two researchers in the QBI Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG) about the unique impacts that COVID-19 has had on women...

The Kidney Project wins KidneyX Award to enable simpler, safer at-home dialysis

Wed Jul 22, 2020
The Kidney Project's iHemo offers patients a safer, in-home alternative to dialysis

The Kidney Project's iHemo implantable dialysis system received a $500,000 award to speed its development into an approved therapy for patients.

School's efforts to develop artificial kidney receive $500,000 boost

Student-taught education finds its footing in PharmD curriculum

Tue Jul 21, 2020
Ha with microphone and students
Levi Gadye

PharmD student Huy Ha, Class of 2021, second from left, helps introduce the student-taught education in pharmacy (STEP) program, along with fellow STEP instructors, to first-year students during orientation, August 2019.

Student teachers create new pillar of support for first-year pharmacy students

Studying the diversification of ion channel regulation with insertional profiling: a QBI online seminar with Willow Coyote-Maestas

Mon Jul 20, 2020
Coyote-Maestas.
The QBI Seminar Series presents a seminar with Willow Coyote-Maestas, an HHMI Gilliam and NSF Graduate Fellow in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Willow received a master of science in bioinformatics and computational biology at the University...

Science in the Time of Corona: A unique Franco-American collaboration

Mon Jul 20, 2020
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Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) presents Science in the Time of Corona, a live show in which scientists discuss the ways that COVID-19 has changed science.

How targeting a key SARS-CoV-2 enzyme could lead to an antiviral drug

Fri Jul 10, 2020
Fraser
Elisabeth Fall

James Fraser, PhD

The chemical fragments could bind to and disable an enzyme that helps the virus replicate.

SARS-CoV-2 may spur growth of molecular “railways” out of infected cells, School scientists show

Thu Jul 2, 2020
Coronavirus and human cells
NIAID/NIH

SARS-CoV-2 viral particles and human cells

UCSF-led collaboration uncovers new avenues for COVID-19 drug discovery

Tunnels, bridges, and ferries: How bacteria move lipids between membranes: a QBI online seminar with Damian Ekiert

Thu Jul 2, 2020
Ekiert.
The QBI Online Seminar Series presents a seminar with Damian Ekiert, assistant professor for cell biology and microbiology at the NYU School of Medicine. Gram-negative bacteria are surrounded by two lipid membranes, creating a formidable barrier against the outside world.

COVID-19 relies on cell’s ‘master regulators’ for survival

Tue Jun 30, 2020

School of Pharmacy serves as PPE distribution hub for community pharmacies

Fri Jun 26, 2020
Erich, Quirante, Vo, and Lum

School faculty, staff, and PharmD students repackaged and distributed personal protective equipment to local pharmacies. From left to right: Julie Erich, Marley Quirante, Christine Vo, and Ernie Lum.

The School collaborates with the State of California and the California Pharmacists Association to provide vital PPE supplies to local pharmacies.

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