Topics and Expertise: antibiotic resistance

Behind enemy lines

Tue Aug 9, 2022
Tsai wearing a laboratory coat and standing next to laboratory equipment

Kaitlyn Tsai, PhD, pictured, broke new ground in the fight against antibiotic resistance as a graduate student in the lab of Danica Fujimori, PhD.

School scientists make headway against antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Overcoming disease with moving pictures and molecular building blocks

Mon Apr 13, 2020
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Elisabeth Fall

Jaime Fraser, PhD

Jaime Fraser delivered the 2020 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science

Gruenberg receives sustainability award for second straight year

Fri Jun 29, 2018
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Susan Merrell

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, BCPS

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD ’15, BCPS, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, was awarded the 2018 Sustainability Award in the faculty category by the UCSF Academic Senate Sustainability Committee on June 27, 2018.

A Cautionary Tale About Antibiotics

Mon Apr 17, 2017

Koda-Kimble Seed Award recipients explore ‘blue-sky’ projects

Mon Feb 27, 2017
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Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD

Recipients of the UCSF School of Pharmacy 2017 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation will explore ideas ranging from possible new ways to treat obesity to new ways of accessing antibiotic-producing microbes found in soil.

Fujimori delivers 2017 Byers Award Lecture on tackling antibiotic resistance

Wed Feb 15, 2017
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Susan Merrell

Danica Galonić Fujimori, PhD, delivers the 2017 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science. Her topic was the problem of antibiotic resistance and how research may help keep drugs effective.

Since Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1940, countless lives have been saved by antibiotics. But their effectiveness is severely compromised by the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria, accelerated by the over-prescription of antibiotics and their widespread use as growth...

Obama Budget 2016 Funds Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Fri Jun 19, 2015

Posters tracking beta blocker side effects, antibiotic use, blood thinner adherence take top seminar honors

Wed May 22, 2013
Huynh, Chuang, Shin, Shen

Rifkind award winners (clockwise from upper left) Tony Huynh, PharmD; Alan Chuang, PharmD; Jaekyu Shin, PharmD; Michelle Shen, PharmD.

Studies of whether patients are taking a blood thinner as prescribed, whether antibiotic treatment of cancer patients’ fevers matches guidelines, and whether one form of a leading cardiovascular drug increases the risk for a serious side effect took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy...

Threat of drug-resistant MRSA increasing

Wed Jan 23, 2008
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Overused antibiotics fueling microbe resistance

Wed Oct 2, 2002
Cipro and related broad spectrum antibiotics are being over-prescribed, accelerating bacterial resistance to the drugs and reducing their ability to treat infections, according to recently presented research findings by UCSF School of Pharmacy clinical scientist Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD.