School of Pharmacy

Giacomini co-led study finds gene variant affecting response to leading diabetes drug

Tue Aug 9, 2016

Study co-lead author Sook Wah Yee, PhD, of Giacomini Lab

Metformin is the most widely used initial medication for controlling blood sugar (glucose) in type 2 diabetes, a disease affecting 350 million people worldwide. The drug helps reduce their risk of complications leading to heart, eye, and kidney disease.

Celebrating the 100th birthday of Edward Leong Way

Mon Jul 25, 2016

Elisabeth Fall

Edward (Eddie) Leong Way, BS ’38, MS ’40, PhD ’42, at his 100th birthday celebration

Edward (Eddie) Leong Way, BS, MS, PhD, celebrated his 100th birthday on July 1, 2016, with more than 70 colleagues, friends, and family at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center.

Vogt teaches stress relief and resiliency medicine to San Francisco employees

Thu Jul 14, 2016

Eleanor Vogt, PhD, RPh

Over the past five years, School of Pharmacy faculty member Eleanor Vogt, PhD, RPh, has co-developed and implemented a program for hundreds of employees of the city and county of San Francisco that imparts tools to reduce stress and increase resiliency.

White paper demonstrates the value of Comprehensive Medication Management

Mon Jul 11, 2016

Elisabeth Fall

Marilyn Stebbins, PharmD

A growing body of evidence is showing that comprehensive medication management (CMM) can be an important component in reaching the so-called triple aim of health care reform:

Helen Macfie, PharmD, Named Among Nation’s 50 Top Patient Safety Experts

Fri Jul 8, 2016

The scope of I.V. room errors

Wed Jun 29, 2016

Three Ways to Build an Artificial Kidney

Wed Jun 29, 2016

Fulton receives Innovation in Education Award

Fri Jun 17, 2016

Eric Davila

Tracy Fulton, PhD

The 2016 Dean’s Innovation in Education Award was presented to Tracy Fulton, PhD, on Thursday during the School of Pharmacy faculty meeting on the Parnassus campus.

Burchard leads call for diversity in research workforce

Thu Jun 16, 2016

Noah Berger

Marquitta White (right), MS, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Burchard Lab, took on five young summer research students of diverse backgrounds, including Maria Contreras (left) and Oona Risse-Adams (center), a 16-year-old sophomore at Lowell High School in San Francisco.

The photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. hanging on the wall of the Asthma Collaboratory lab in UC San Francisco’s Rock Hall serves a reminder to all who toil there, purifying DNA samples or analyzing genetic, social or environmental data that their research is also part of a dream of equality and...

Revolution Medicines Names Michael Fischbach as Academic Co-Founder

Thu Jun 16, 2016

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