Topics and Expertise: structure-based drug design

Shoichet receives DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences

Brian Shoichet, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2017 recipient of the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences.

Shoichet co-led research develops safer, potentially less addictive painkiller

Research co-led by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Brian Shoichet, PhD, has developed a new opioid drug candidate that blocks pain as effectively as morphine in mice, without triggering dangerous side effects, and also apparently without the addictive properties of current prescription...

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

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