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Fri Jan 31, 2025
A new therapy combines a drug to mark cancer cells for destruction and a radioactive antibody to kill them, while calculating an extremely safe dose of radiation that uses only the amount of radiation needed to beat the cancer.
Sat Dec 31, 2016
Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between October and December 2016:
12/26/2016: Judy Sakanari received a 2-year grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The project is “Novel Therapeutics for Treatment of River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis...
Mon Dec 12, 2016
Research in the lab of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Adam Renslo, PhD, has developed a new way of selectively targeting cancer cells with drugs. In experiments with mice, the new approach allowed for the delivery of fifty times higher doses of chemotherapy to tumors while avoiding toxic effects on healthy cells.
This novel...
Wed Dec 7, 2016
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has established new endowed faculty positions to be held by the chairs of two School departments.
As chair of the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, faculty member Tejal Desai, PhD, will hold the Ernest L. Prien Endowed Professorship in Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences. As chair of...
Fri Dec 2, 2016
In recognition of his innovations in microscopy, Bo Huang, PhD, an associate professor in the UCSF School of Pharmacy’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, is the recipient of the 2016 Early Career Life Scientist Award, awarded by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB).
Huang introduced new algorithms, originally developed for...
Thu Dec 1, 2016
Brian Shoichet, PhD, faculty member in the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been named the 2017 recipient of the DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences.
Given annually by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), the DeLano Award honors a scientist “for the most accessible and...
Fri Sep 30, 2016
Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between July and September 2016:
9/22/2016: Nathan Schmidt, a postdoc in the DeGrado Lab, was awarded the prestigious K award by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences. The project will be funded for two years.
9/1/2016:...
Mon Sep 26, 2016
UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Zev Gartner, PhD, will be co-director of a new multi-institution UCSF-administered Center for Cellular Construction, which has been awarded a five-year $24 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The new center’s research will unite scientists from diverse fields to adapt tools from...
Wed Aug 17, 2016
Research co-led by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Brian Shoichet, PhD, has developed a new opioid drug candidate that blocks pain as effectively as morphine in mice, without triggering dangerous side effects, and also apparently without the addictive properties of current prescription painkillers.
As detailed in a paper...
Mon Jul 25, 2016
Edward (Eddie) Leong Way, BS, MS, PhD, celebrated his 100th birthday on July 1, 2016, with more than 70 colleagues, friends, and family at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center.
Eddie—as he is known—studied at what was then called the College of Pharmacy of the University of California (on Parnassus Heights in San Francisco), earning a...