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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.
Wed May 6, 2015
The annual UCSF School of Pharmacy Student Awards and Recognition Dinner, hosted by Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, and sponsored by Ralph’s Inc., was held on Friday, May 1, 2015, at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus.
The event honored dozens of students whose excellence and leadership were recognized at the campus, state, and national levels...
Wed Apr 22, 2015
James Wells, PhD, chair of the School’s Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, has been elected as a member of the 2015 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Founded in 1780, the Academy is one of the nation’s oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers. It convenes leaders from the academic, arts,...
Mon Apr 13, 2015
Pharmaceutical Chemistry department members have received the following grants and fellowships since October 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 macrofilaricide)...
Wed Apr 1, 2015
Pharmaceutical Chemistry faculty members have published the following manuscripts since January 2015
An improved single-chain Fab platform for efficient display and recombinant expression.
Koerber JT, Hornsby MJ, Wells JA.
J Mol Biol. 2015 Jan 30;427(2):576-86.
Small molecules enhance CRISPR genome editing in pluripotent stem cells....
Tue Mar 31, 2015
Strategic planning; Top NIH funding; Recently received research funding (Craik, Gartner, Abate, Cole, Aweeka); Recent faculty publications (DeGrado, Ahituv, Cutler, Pon, Branch, Chuang, Huynh); Education (Youmans): UCSF Bridges Pharmacy Curriculum Project, DRIVE Team; new staff (Nguyen, Miller); Honors (Corelli, Dong, Craik, DeGrado, Ferrone, Shin...
Mon Mar 2, 2015
Four faculty members have recently joined the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and were welcomed at a reception at Mission Bay on February 25. The guests of honor were Steven Altschuler, PhD; Lani Wu, PhD; Lei Wang, PhD; and Brian Shoichet, PhD. Shoichet has returned to UCSF after a year at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research,...
Thu Feb 26, 2015
Wendell Lim, PhD, is the new chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology (CMP). His appointment as chair was effective January 1, 2015. Lim holds a joint faculty position in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.
Congratulations to Wendell, and sincere thanks to Kevan Shokat, PhD, who chaired the CMP department...
Thu Feb 26, 2015
For the 35th 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 $31.8 million during the 2014 fiscal year, from October 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014.
“The decades-long success of...