February 2021

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for the 41st straight year

Over $40 million in 2020 NIH funding to the School supported research ranging from the genomics of asthma to new malaria treatments

A universal mechanism for activation of MST2 during Hippo signal transduction: a QBI online seminar with Jennifer Kavran

Friday, April 23, 2021 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

The QBI Online Seminar Series is presenting Jennifer Kavran, an assistant professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kavran's lab is focused on understanding the regulation of the Hippo core kinase cassette using a multiprong approach including cell biology, enzymology, biophysics, and structural biology. Her long-term goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms that regulate signal transduction pathways.

Jacobson’s story of battling illness while teaching featured in UCSF Magazine

A UCSF Magazine feature traces a School faculty member’s journey as both a patient and teacher.

Transcription factor binding to DNA mismatches – a potential driver of increased mutagenesis at regulatory sites: a QBI online seminar with Raluca Gordan

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

The QBI Online Seminar Series is presenting Raluca Gordan, an associate professor in the Center for Genomic and Computational Biology at Duke University. She received her PhD degree from Duke University in 2009, followed by postdoctoral training at the Harvard Medical School.

Pharmacy community lends hand to UCSF COVID-19 vaccine effort

Pharmacy students, technicians, faculty members, and providers all pitched in to the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Revealing enzyme functional architecture via high-throughput microfluidic enzyme kinetics: a QBI online seminar with Craig Markin

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

Craig Markin is a postdoctoral fellow working jointly with Professors Dan Herschlag and Polly Fordyce at Stanford University, where he has developed HT-MEK (High-Throughput Microfluidic Enzyme Kinetics), a novel microfluidics-based assay to express, purify, and quantitatively measure libraries of >1000 enzyme variants across a battery of functional parameters. Craig performed his graduate work with Prof.