Topics and Expertise: parasites

Aweeka co-leads new study of drugs to prevent malaria in young children, pregnant women

Mon Mar 9, 2015
Malaria parasite
Image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear

The plasmodium parasite that causes malaria

Francesca Aweeka, PharmD, a faculty member in the School’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, will co-lead a new five-year, $3.4 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address one of the world’s most vexing health problems—preventing malaria, especially in the most...

Charles S. Craik, PhD

Thu Mar 7, 2013
Professor

I focus on defining the roles and the mechanisms of enzymes in complex biological processes and on developing technologies to facilitate these studies to aid in the rapid detection, monitoring, and control of infectious disease and cancer.

Teaching old drugs new tricks at the Small Molecule Discovery Center: arthritis drug could treat dysentery

Thu May 24, 2012
Entamoeba histolytica in cyst form
CDC/Dr. George Healy

Entamoeba histolytica in cyst form

The UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) provided a key assist to researchers seeking to repurpose existing drugs to treat the worldwide scourge of amoebic dysentery.

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: