School of Pharmacy

Innovation in Education Awards go to Shin, Jacobson, Ferrone

Thu Jan 8, 2015

The glass apple is awarded as a symbol of the Dean's Innovation in Education Award. Honorees also received $1,000.

The inaugural presentation of the Dean’s Innovation in Education Awards took place during the School of Pharmacy faculty meeting at Mission Hall on the Mission Bay campus on January 6, 2015.

Craik named a fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Thu Dec 18, 2014

Charles S. Craik, PhD

Charles S. Craik, PhD, whose innovative research has generated ten patents and helped launch two companies, has been named a fellow by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Most recent School of Pharmacy primary faculty hires, by department

Tue Dec 9, 2014

Elisabeth Fall

Steven Altschuler, PhD and Lani Wu, PhD are a husband-and-wife research team who recently moved their joint lab to UCSF. They are faculty members in the School's Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

The most recently hired faculty members to join the UCSF School of Pharmacy have research interests that range from the treatment of blood clots to mapping biological networks in cancer cells to understanding the molecular workings of ion channels in cell membranes. But they all share the common...

Study finds depression in pregnancy, postpartum is overlooked and undertreated

Mon Dec 1, 2014

Kaeru Sand

, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

About 10 to 20 percent of women suffer from new-onset depression during pregnancy or after giving birth. Untreated, the impact of such illness can be profound, ranging from substance abuse, poor prenatal care, and miscarriages to impaired infant bonding and developmental delays.

Desai Lab develops nanodevices to aid artery repair

Tue Nov 25, 2014

Kathleen Masterson

Kevin Lance, a graduate student in the Desai lab, holds thin-film blood-vessel wrap being developed to deliver anti-scarring drugs.

Research in the laboratory of Tejal Desai, PhD, is creating new kinds of drug delivery devices to reduce the scarring and inflammation that can undermine stents—metal mesh tubes implanted to prop open blocked arteries, including in the heart.

Class of 2018 student pharmacists put on their white coats

Thu Nov 13, 2014

Susan Merrell

Student pharmacist Emmeline Academia receives her white coat from alumni Robert Duey, PharmD '64, at the White Coat Ceremony.

The students of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s incoming class—whose countries of origin range from Rwanda to Iran and who hold degrees in subjects from biology to biochemistry and from psychology to accounting—put on their white coats for the first time on October 10, 2014, in an afternoon ceremony...

Burchard study finds Latino asthma risk varies with genetic ancestry

Tue Oct 7, 2014

Percentage prevalence of asthma in U.S. children

A new analysis of nearly 5,500 Latino children with and without asthma led by School scientists has found that variations in their genetic ancestry can partially explain major differences in their risk of developing the disease.

Andrew Braisted Lecture

Fri Sep 26, 2014

This endowed lecture was established by UCSF and UC Berkeley to bring together San Francisco Bay Area scientists who work at the interface of chemistry and biology. The lecture was established in memory of Andrew Braisted, a young scientist in chemical biology who had strong ties to UCSF, UCB, and...

Full circle: Startup scores big deal with Pfizer—and QB3 is happy

Mon Sep 22, 2014

Frontiers in Biophysics and Chemical Biology: a symposium in honor of Bill DeGrado

Sun Sep 21, 2014

Chemical biology is a rapidly growing and changing field. This symposium highlights recent developments in chemical biology, outlines grand challenges in medicinal chemistry, and provides a platform for discussion on how these challenges can be met.

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