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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.
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.
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...
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. 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...
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 problems in biology, with the ultimate goal of...
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.
The Kaiser award is given annually by the international society to recognize “a recent, highly significant contribution to the application of chemistry in the...
Wed Jan 20, 2016
UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Leslie Benet, PhD, has been named the 2016 recipient of the Remington Honor Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). He will be officially recognized during the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Baltimore, MD, March 4–7, 2016.
The honor was established...
Thu Jan 7, 2016
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, the Diabetes Center at UCSF, and the UCSF School of Pharmacy have converted human skin cells into fully functional pancreatic cells that produce insulin in response to changes in glucose levels. Transplanted into mice, the cells protected the animals from developing a mouse model of diabetes.
The...
Thu Dec 31, 2015
Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty members have published the following manuscripts between October and December 2015.
Thu Dec 31, 2015
Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships between October and December 2015:
10/29/2015: Judy Sakanari was awarded a supplement to her project which allows broad evaluation of available compounds that can be used in mass drug administration programs to kill adult filarial worms (a...
Wed Dec 23, 2015
Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH, and UCSF School of Pharmacy vice dean, is the newly elected Council of Deans Secretary, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP).
The council includes a select number of the nation’s leaders in academic pharmacy. Council activities focus on educational policies, professional program...