Research

UCSF School of Pharmacy leads in NIH funding for 36th year in a row

Thu Mar 31, 2016

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.

Fragment-based discovery: using smaller molecules to solve larger challenges

Thu Mar 24, 2016

To discover new drugs and chemical probes, researchers have traditionally screened small molecules—small enough by weight to pass through cell membranes.

Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

Mon Mar 21, 2016

UC San Francisco establishes Quantitative Biosciences Institute

Wed Mar 16, 2016

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...

Craik receives Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award

Fri Mar 11, 2016

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.