New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2011 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 …
Celebrating Burlingame’s contributions to mass spectrometry Burlingame From the start of his illustrious half-century career in mass spectrometry, Al Burlingame, PhD , has been part of a scientific sea change. In his first lab at UC Berkeley, complete …
Artificial kidney project led by Roy cited at White House panel The White House. 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 …
Remembering Harry W. Hind - pharmacist, inventor, leader, benefactor 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 …
Koda-Kimble is honored by UCSF Medical Center Koda-Kimble 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, …
Home monitoring of heart failure via web-enabled bathroom scales wins award funding Etemadi. Can a retrofitted bathroom scale costing less than $100 save lives and improve the health of millions of Americans living with heart failure while cutting …
Self care group supports researching non-prescription access by patients to urgent and chronic care drugs medications on grocery shelves On March 22 and 23, 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) held a public hearing to explore the idea of …
Cancer drug dosing in kids, medication-related delirium, and battery swallowing take top honors at seminar Rifkind Award winners, left-to-right: Janel Long-Boyle, PharmD, PhD; Caroline Lindsay, PharmD; Elisabeth Birdsall, PharmD Studies of cancer drug …
The Lancet profiles Lisa Bero’s “path of most resistance” Bero 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. The profile titled “taking the …
Study builds breast tissues to track how abnormal cells affect neighbors Gartner It can take just the flick of a genetic switch for breast cells to kick-start the normally well-regulated process of growth seen in puberty, pregnancy, or the menstrual …