Categories: Research

School establishes education and research program with leading Chinese university

Thu Dec 19, 2013
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has entered into a five-year collaborative education and research agreement with Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing, China.

Study builds breast tissues to track how abnormal cells affect neighbors

Tue Oct 23, 2012
It can take just the flick of a genetic switch for breast cells to kick-start the normally well-regulated process of growth seen in puberty, pregnancy, or the menstrual cycle—or the mutation of that switch to initiate the unchecked proliferation of cancer.

Shu receives NIH New Innovator Award to study protein interactions

Fri Sep 14, 2012
Xiaokun Shu, PhD, has been named a recipient of the 2012 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator award, which will provide up to $1.5 million in research funding over the next five years.

Computer models successfully predict drug side effects

Mon Jun 11, 2012
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New computer models were able to successfully predict negative side effects for hundreds of currently marketed drugs, report researchers from the UCSF School of Pharmacy, SeaChange Pharmaceuticals, and Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in a paper published online this week in the journal...

Teaching old drugs new tricks at the Small Molecule Discovery Center: arthritis drug could treat dysentery

Thu May 24, 2012
The UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC) provided a key assist to researchers seeking to repurpose existing drugs to treat the worldwide scourge of amoebic dysentery.

Remembering Harry W. Hind - pharmacist, inventor, leader, benefactor

Wed May 9, 2012
Harry W. Hind, a 1939 graduate of the UCSF School of Pharmacy who invented solutions that revolutionized contact lens use, as well as a topical patch to treat pain from shingles, died on April 12 at age 96.

Celebrating Burlingame’s contributions to mass spectrometry

Thu Apr 26, 2012
From the start of his illustrious half-century career in mass spectrometry, Al Burlingame, PhD, has been part of a scientific sea change.

UCSF School of Pharmacy’s 32nd year of top NIH funding includes many new projects

Fri Apr 13, 2012
For the 32nd consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy received more research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

New NIH funding awarded to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2011

Fri Apr 13, 2012
New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included these on-going projects by faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry:

New NIH funding awarded to UCSF School of Pharmacy postdoctoral fellows in 2011

Wed Apr 4, 2012
New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included two on-going projects by postdoctoral fellows:

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