Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Gary Rudnick, PhD, will present “Conformational change in mechanism and regulation of serotonin transporter” on Monday, September 28, 2015, from noon to 1:00 pm, at the Gladstone Institutes, Robert W. Mahley Auditorium. The seminar is hosted by William DeGrado.

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Leslie Benet, PhD, has been named the 2015 recipient of the North American Scientific Achievement Award, presented by the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX).

Sheng Ding, PhD, is a stem cell scientist who uses novel small molecules to control and reprogram stem cell activities in various tissue types. Applying his groundbreaking techniques, he has previously succeeded in transforming skin cells into functional brain, heart, liver, and insulin-producing...

The UCSF School of Pharmacy Industry Outreach Program presents a UCSF-Amgen Symposium.

This event will comprise two sessions:

A new collaboration between Celgene Corp. and the Recombinant Antibody Network (RAN) will support the development of next-generation, antibody-based cancer therapies.

Jeremy Nicholson of the Imperial College in London is coming to UCSF to give a seminar entitled "Systems Medicine Approaches in Personalised and Public Healthcare." Dr. Nicholson is the head of the Department of Surgery and Cancer and the head of Stratified Medicine.

UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Shuvo Roy, PhD, has received a three-year $1 million grant to create surgically implantable capsules of donor pancreas cells to free type 1 diabetes patients from daily insulin injections and the disease’s potentially life-threatening complications.

Renowned researcher and educator Matthew Jacobson, PhD, has been named the new chair of the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry. His appointment by Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, will be effective January 15, 2016.