For the 36th consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy has received more funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.
School researchers were awarded $27 million during NIH’s 2015 fiscal year, from October 1, 2014 to September 30, 2015. Rankings of schools are compiled by the independent Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research based on the most current NIH data.
To discover new drugs and chemical probes, researchers have traditionally screened small molecules—small enough by weight to pass through cell membranes. Their goal is typically to find compounds that selectively bind to a much larger protein molecule (often an enzyme) at a chemically reactive pocket known as the active site, inhibiting its activity to treat a disease or to better understand a biological process.
Professor Volker Dötsch, PhD, Professor at the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Goethe University, is giving a seminar entitled "2 inactive 4 destruction, or The tails of p63." The seminar will be held on April 6, 2016, from 12-1 pm in Mission Hall room 1401.
The Antibody Technology Research Center Symposium is a one-day conference on cutting-edge technologies for recombinant antibody generation and engineering for difficult and important targets including the secreteome, active protein conformers, and post-translationally modified proteins.
UC San Francisco today announced the establishment of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI). The mission of QBI, located in Byers Hall on the UCSF Mission Bay campus, is to drive forward the application of computation, mathematics, and statistics toward a deeper understanding of complex problems in biology, with the ultimate goal of developing new treatments for disease.
Charles S. Craik, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award.
The UCSF Discovery Fellows Symposium will be held on Wednesday, April 13, at 4:00 pm in Genentech Hall at the Mission Bay campus.
This event will showcase the exciting basic science research of the UCSF Discovery Fellows, including a short lineup of fun, TED-style talks covering topics including Why Looks Matter (At Least if You’re a Cell) and Bearing the Bacterial Load: The Gut Microbiota and the Immune System, from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm.
