School of Pharmacy

Rachael Gordon, PharmD, MPH, uses her background in statistics and analysis to extend her role beyond the clinical, informing research that she hopes will lead to a broader understanding of transplant medicine.

Through the Pharmacy Committee of Recreational Activities (PCRA), a group of students is supporting wellness and fostering community while introducing elementary and high school students to the diversity of pharmacy roles in the health care system. 

After teaming up previously in a local skills competition, second-year students Rhea Misra and Isela Lopez earned the opportunity to compete nationally in the Student National Pharmaceutical Association (SNPhA) National Clinical Skills Competition.

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty member Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD, was celebrated as a curiosity-driven scientist in the 29th annual Byers Award Lecture, where he shared how he fulfilled a research dream in his journey from Stanford University to UCSF.

The director of the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics (IHG) is being recognized for his lab’s work investigating gene regulatory elements––their relationship to human diversity and disease and their utilization for gene therapy.

David Morris, MD, has worked with many Bay Area startups, including a spin-off from the lab of Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty member Jim Wells, PhD.

Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty members Brian Shoichet, PhD, and Jason Sello, PhD, combine collaboration, curiosity, and innovation to discover molecules that can become anesthetics administered without specialized training.

UCSF School of Pharmacy instructors, praised for their dedication, have received the Dean’s Apple Teaching Awards for excellent student evaluation scores across several terms in 2023 and 2024.