December 2015

Grants and Fellowships: Fall 2015

Thu Dec 31, 2015

Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between October and December 2015:

Publications: fall 2015

Thu Dec 31, 2015

Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty members have published the following manuscripts between October and December 2015.

Youmans elected AACP Council of Deans Secretary

Wed Dec 23, 2015

Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and UCSF School of Pharmacy vice dean, is the newly elected Council of Deans Secretary, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).

The council includes a select number of the nation’s leaders in academic pharmacy. Council activities focus on educational policies, professional program administration within academic institutions, and the ties between academic pharmacy and the community.

Wells named a fellow of National Academy of Inventors

Fri Dec 18, 2015

James Wells, PhD, whose pioneering innovations in protein engineering and technologies to identify small molecules to aid in drug discovery have yielded more than 60 patents, launched three companies, and created two UCSF technology centers, has been elected as a fellow to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Altschuler and Wu develop new cell-screening approach to speed drug discovery

Wed Dec 16, 2015

How do you discover new drugs against diseases such as cancer?

Michael Hornsby, PhD

Researcher

My research focuses on the development of technology and processes used to generate high quality recombinant antibody reagents to disease-relevant protein targets.