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  • Soller defines the roadmap for Rx-to-OTC switches

    Soller defines the roadmap for Rx-to-OTC switches Soller If you are a pharmaceutical company seeking to switch your prescription medication to one sold directly to consumers—as an over-the-counter or OTC drug— William Soller, PhD , has your road map. In a …

  • Computer models to predict drug clearance by liver cells show promise

    Computer models to predict drug clearance by liver cells show promise schematic diagram A holy grail of drug discovery is to answer key questions about potential new drugs less by experiments in petri dishes and lab animals and more by faster, cheaper …

  • UCSF Robotic Pharmacy ranked “Best of What’s New” 2011 by Popular Science

    UCSF Robotic Pharmacy ranked “Best of What’s New” 2011 by Popular Science Pharmacy robot selects medications from drawers The robotic pharmacy at the UCSF Medical Center is the recipient of a 2011 Best of What’s New (Archived) designation by Popular …

  • Consortium inventing medical devices for children gets new funding

    Consortium inventing medical devices for children gets new funding Roy A two-year-old, cross-disciplinary effort to invent new medical devices for children, co-founded by bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD , has received a two-year $1 million grant from the U.S. …

  • Bero heads new WHO center studying, promoting global access to vital drugs

    Bero heads new WHO center studying, promoting global access to vital drugs Bero The office of Lisa Bero, PhD , on UCSF ’s Laurel Heights campus has long been a key portal between the School of Pharmacy and the world at large, including countries where …

  • Drugs screened for effects on key transporters, risk of dangerous interactions

    Drugs screened for effects on key transporters, risk of dangerous interactions diagram To reduce the risk of toxic drug interactions, UCSF 's Kathy Giacomini, PhD , and colleagues are screening thousands of prescription drugs, testing how much they …

  • Child’s illness fuels lab team’s search for early-life epilepsy diagnostics

    Child’s illness fuels lab team’s search for early-life epilepsy diagnostics The lab of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Nadav Ahituv, PhD , studies how abnormalities in DNA segments that control the activity of genes could lead to diseases. …

  • Nordberg becomes associate dean, finance and administration

    Nordberg becomes associate dean, finance and administration Nordberg becomes associate dean, finance and administration Susan Levings October 28, 2011 Michael Nordberg, MPA/HSA , is the newly appointed associate dean of administration and finance for the …

  • Fischbach receives Packard Fellowship

    Fischbach receives Packard Fellowship Fischbach Michael Fischbach, PhD , who studies drug-like molecules produced by human gut bacteria, has been awarded one the 16 prestigious 2011 Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering. The fellowship, which …

  • Huang receives NIH New Innovator Award

    Huang receives NIH New Innovator Award Huang Bo Huang, PhD , a faculty member of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named a recipient of a 2011 National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) Director’s New Innovator …