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  • Use of amyloid inhibitors cautioned

    Use of amyloid inhibitors cautioned Shoichet Brian Shoichet, PhD , School of Pharmacy faculty member and Brian Feng, PhD , former staff research associate with the School, and colleagues have discovered that many amyloid inhibitors, which scientists had …

  • Threat of drug-resistant MRSA increasing

    Threat of drug-resistant MRSA increasing methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus B. Joseph Guglielmo, Jr., PharmD , School of Pharmacy chair of the department of clinical pharmacy, comments on the last line of defense to the methicillin-resistant …

  • Sali and colleagues advance understanding of proteins

    Sali and colleagues advance understanding of proteins Sali School of Pharmacy faculty member and computational biologist Andrej Sali, PhD , and international colleagues have developed new techniques to reveal the architecture of large protein complexes …

  • Kroetz uses pharmacogenetics to determine the best treatment options for leukemia patients

    Kroetz uses pharmacogenetics to determine the best treatment options for leukemia patients Kroetz Some leukemia cells supercharge cell pumps to get rid of chemotherapy. UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member and pharmacogenetics researcher Deanna Kroetz, …

  • Wilson looks at the economics of health

    Wilson looks at the economics of health Leslie Wilson, PhD Health economist Leslie Wilson, PhD , faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, studies the ratio of cost to benefit, the benefit alone, or the cost alone of health treatments, educational …

  • Burchard explores asthma risk in Latinos

    Burchard explores asthma risk in Latinos Esteban Burchard, MD What began as a fascination with fish when he was a child eventually led Esteban Burchard, MD to study genetic differences behind asthma risk. Burchard, who is a physician scientist and faculty …

  • UCSF student pharmacists teach science to 5th-graders

    UCSF student pharmacists teach science to 5th-graders UCSF student pharmacists relate science to the everyday lives of 5th-graders at San Francisco’s Rosa Parks Elementary School through a special program now in its second year. The Rosa Parks Science …

  • Benet delivers distinguished lecture

    Benet delivers distinguished lecture Leslie Z. Benet, PhD Leslie Z. Benet , PhD , faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy delivered the Seventh Distinguished Clinical Research Lecture to the UCSF faculty on October 17, 2007 on UCSF 's Parnassus …

  • Ferrin uses computation and computers to understand molecules

    Ferrin uses computation and computers to understand molecules Semliki forest virus Tom Ferrin, PhD , faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, is an expert in the use of computation and computer-generated images and simulations of biological …

  • Ahituv asks why some DNA is ultraconserved

    Ahituv asks why some DNA is ultraconserved Ahituv Research by Nadav Ahituv, PhD , faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy, shows that laboratory mice that had specific sequences of their DNA removed eat, grow, and reproduce normally. The stretches …