Topics and Expertise: drug delivery

Prien and MacWilliam bequests establish new endowed professorships

Wed Dec 7, 2016
Prien, MacWilliam
Foresight, newsletter of UCSF Office of Gift & Endowment Planning

Ernest Prien, BS ’34 and Mary MacWilliam, EdD, UC Berkeley, 1956

The UCSF School of Pharmacy has established new endowed faculty positions to be held by the chairs of two School departments.

MacDougall study finds severe sepsis alert speeds drug delivery

Tue Dec 22, 2015
MacDougall
Elisabeth Fall

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS

Sepsis occurs when the body responds to an infection with a mix of tissue-damaging inflammation and anti-inflammatory responses. This biological storm can lead to acute organ dysfunction (severe sepsis) and dropping blood pressure that does not respond to intravenous fluids (septic shock).

Desai Lab develops nanodevices to aid artery repair

Tue Nov 25, 2014
Lance
Kathleen Masterson

Kevin Lance, a graduate student in the Desai lab, holds thin-film blood-vessel wrap being developed to deliver anti-scarring drugs.

Research in the laboratory of Tejal Desai, PhD, is creating new kinds of drug delivery devices to reduce the scarring and inflammation that can undermine stents—metal mesh tubes implanted to prop open blocked arteries, including in the heart.

Tejal Desai, PhD

Wed Mar 13, 2013
Desai
Professor

I am a bioengineer focusing on micro and nanofabrication techniques to create new devices for drug and cell delivery as well as biomaterials for cell and tissue regeneration. I am the immediate past chair (7 years) of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, a joint department in...

Leslie Benet, PhD

Fri Dec 14, 2012
Professor

New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2011

Fri Apr 13, 2012
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 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry:

Fischbach and Desai focus on “micro” solutions to improve health with drugs

Thu Jun 30, 2011
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Faculty members in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine, share their research on the human microbiome and microfabricated drug delivery systems and their hopes for how their science will improve the health of patients.

Desai’s drug delivery research focus of agreement between UCSF and Zcube

Wed Mar 16, 2011
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Tejal Desai, PhD

Drug delivery research led by UCSF’s Tejal Desai, PhD, will now be supported by an exclusive worldwide license agreement between UCSF and Zcube

Reflection: 30 years of top NIH funding for UCSF School of Pharmacy

Wed Dec 22, 2010
people discuss research results

Kathy Giacomini, PhD (center), co-chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, discusses research results in the lab with postdocs Sook Wah Yee (left), and Amber Dahlin (right).

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Introduction
Budget significance
Reasons for past success
A decade of funding for bioinformatics
New drug discovery directions attract support

Scientists explain how they are making therapeutics “intelligent”

Mon Jul 13, 2009
UCSF scientists describe how their research is aiming to make therapeutics sophisticated, highly effective, and tailored to the different needs of individuals.

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