School of Pharmacy

Teaching old drugs new tricks at the Small Molecule Discovery Center: arthritis drug could treat dysentery

Thu May 24, 2012
Entamoeba histolytica in cyst form
CDC/Dr. George Healy

Entamoeba histolytica in cyst form

The UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) provided a key assist to researchers seeking to repurpose existing drugs to treat the worldwide scourge of amoebic dysentery.

The Lancet profiles Lisa Bero’s “path of most resistance”

Fri May 18, 2012
Bero
Cindy Chew

Lisa Bero, PhD

Health policy expert Lisa Bero, PhD, is hailed in the latest issue of The Lancet for tackling hot-button subjects such as financial biases in drug research.

Cancer drug dosing in kids, medication-related delirium, and battery swallowing take top honors at seminar

Fri May 18, 2012
Long-Boyle, Lindsay, and Birdsall

Rifkind Award winners, left-to-right: Janel Long-Boyle, PharmD, PhD; Caroline Lindsay, PharmD; Elisabeth Birdsall, PharmD

Studies of cancer drug dosing in children, possible medication links to delirium in hospital patients, and how to decide when swallowed batteries may call for invasive removal took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy’s 14th annual Spring Research Seminar.

Self care group supports researching non-prescription access by patients to urgent and chronic care drugs

Thu May 17, 2012
On March 22 and 23, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public hearing to explore the idea of switching some medications to treat chronic conditions and health emergencies from prescription to over- and behind-the-counter status.

Koda-Kimble is honored by UCSF Medical Center

Mon May 14, 2012
Koda-Kimble

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, was honored by the UCSF Medical Center on May 4, 2012 for her “exceptional vision as a leader, commitment to patients, compassion as a human being, an

Remembering Harry W. Hind - pharmacist, inventor, leader, benefactor

Wed May 9, 2012
Hind

Harry W. Hind, 1915–2012

Harry W. Hind, a 1939 graduate of the UCSF School of Pharmacy who invented solutions that revolutionized contact lens use, as well as a topical patch to treat pain from shingles, died on April 12 at age 96.

Artificial kidney project led by Roy cited at White House panel

Tue May 1, 2012
The White House.
Ben | Smith on Flickr
Speaking on a White House panel discussing President Obama's just-released Bioeconomy Blueprint, UCSF Vice Chancellor for Research Keith Yamamoto, PhD, cited the implantable bioartificial kidney project led by UCSF b

Celebrating Burlingame’s contributions to mass spectrometry

Thu Apr 26, 2012
Burlingame
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Al Burlingame, PhD

From the start of his illustrious half-century career in mass spectrometry, Al Burlingame, PhD, has been part of a scientific sea change.

New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Clinical Pharmacy in 2011

Fri Apr 13, 2012
New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included these on-going projects by faculty in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy:

New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences in 2011

Fri Apr 13, 2012
New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included a half-dozen on-going projects by BTS faculty:

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