School of Pharmacy

USP/UCSF fellowship to support research in the quality and safety of medical products

Wed Feb 27, 2019
Pharmaceutical drugs
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The UCSF Fellowship in Quality of Medical Products will support research into excipients, or inactive ingredients found in pharmaceutical drugs.

A new fellowship, funded jointly by UCSF-Stanford CERSI and the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), will support research into the inactive components of medications, which are known as excipients.

Medical and pharmacy students jointly tackle health care’s most pressing dilemmas

Fri Feb 22, 2019
Student in discussion with Rodriguez-Monguio
Levi Gadye

Pharmacy student Shafat Selim (right) discusses the complexities of the orphan drug market with School of Pharmacy faculty member Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, PhD, (left) during a mini-course session.

A two-week course brought first-year UCSF medical and pharmacy students together, for the first time, to grapple with controversies and challenges in health care using scientific evidence and faculty-led discussion.

CP159: Certificate in Resiliency Medicine Training: Immunizing for Stress

Wed Feb 13, 2019
About the course

We will explore the current research and demonstrate and practice resiliency building tools including a cross-section of mind-body interactions and internal narratives (story telling). Course completion requires teaching and modeling resiliency skills. Those who successfully...

Gift of $500,000 honors Jere E. Goyan, late UCSF School of Pharmacy dean

Tue Feb 12, 2019
Goyan
UC Regents

Jere E. Goyan, PhD, was the longest-serving dean of the School of Pharmacy and commissioner of the FDA.

The endowment will provide funds for a recipient to focus on delivering breakthroughs in therapeutics-related research, education, and patient care.

Creating an inexhaustible database for drug molecules

Mon Feb 11, 2019
Shoichet in his office
Elisabeth Fall

Brian Shoichet, PhD, brought his drug discovery software to an enormous database of small molecules.

School of Pharmacy researchers helped a free public database of potential drug molecules grow 100-fold.

QBI fellowship fosters curiosity and perseverance for women scientists

Mon Jan 28, 2019
Kyosiimire-Lugemwa
QBI

Jacqueline Kyosiimire-Lugemwa, PhD, was the first recipient of QBI’s Scholarship for Women from Developing Nations in Biosciences.

Jacqueline Kyosiimire-Lugemwa, the first recipient of QBI’s Scholarship for Women from Developing Nations in Biosciences, spent a year at UCSF in which her perseverance in the sciences was tested. She recently returned to her home country of Uganda more ready than ever to tackle big questions about...

Federal shutdown cancels CERSI conference aimed at health care cooperation

Tue Jan 22, 2019

CRISPR-based obesity treatment shows promise for other diseases

Thu Jan 17, 2019
Ahituv, right, works in his lab with postdoc Fumitaka Inoue
Susan Merrell

Nadav Ahituv, PhD, right, was able to curb obesity in mice by tweaking two genes involved in controlling appetite.

A recent study by Nadav Ahituv, PhD, showed that obesity caused by a gene mutation could be treated in animal models.

COSA Winter Auction

Fri Jan 11, 2019

Fraser appointed to Bowes Biomedical Investigator Program

Wed Jan 9, 2019
Fraser stands in front of a whiteboard
Elisabeth Fall

James Fraser, PhD, developed new ways of doing crystallography over a wide range of temperatures.

Fraser developed several new tools for creating maps of macromolecules, a critical first step for finding new drugs.

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