2020 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation fuels vital research across the School
The award funds the boldest, riskiest, and most blue-sky ideas.
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School’s PharmD program rises to second place in national rankings
The new ranking comes on the heels of the School's recent update to its PharmD curriculum.
Sample medications and detailing visits add to costs, Guglielmo argues
Free samples of medications and “detailing visits” are costly, B. Joseph Guglielmo argues in JAMA.
FDA, academia, and industry join forces to shepherd new therapies to patients
UCSF-Stanford CERSI brings together scientists, industry, and government regulators to get new therapies to patients sooner.
Elizabeth Daniels Fund underscores the importance of community
A gift to the UCSF Foundation by Troy Daniels, DDS, and Leslie Daniels, established the endowed Elizabeth Daniels Fund.
Pharmacists uniquely poised to reduce unnecessary prescriptions
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, argues that pharmacists can help reduce the use of unnecessary medications.
Two School members earn UCSF Chancellor’s Awards for Diversity
Jacqueline Fabius was given the Chancellor’s Award for Advancement of Women, and Kwadwo (Kojo) Opoku-Nsiah was given the Chancellor’s Award for Martin Luther King, Jr., Leadership.
Donors unite to honor Toby Herfindal and his commitment to innovation in pharmacy
The Toby Herfindal Presidential Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will be used to support faculty members and/or graduate students in the UCSF School of Pharmacy
Assemi and Clinard assume new associate dean roles
Mitra Assemi and Valerie Clinard were appointed to new associate dean roles in the UCSF School of Pharmacy. Both roles support the School’s evolving doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree program.
PharmD students see to Dean Guglielmo’s flu shot
Getting vaccinated for the flu not only lowers a person’s chance of getting sick, it also helps protect their whole community.
VR drug discovery makes precision therapy a reality
ChimeraX, virtual reality software developed at the UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization and Informatics, is now the tool of choice for computational structural biologists in the School of Pharmacy. The Jacobson Lab recently used ChimeraX to find a promising new cure for a drug-resistant case of pediatric leukemia.
School scientists identify faulty molecular recycling as potential driver of Alzheimer’s disease
School scientists recently uncovered how neurons normally recycle old proteins, and how this process goes awry in Alzheimer's disease, leading to the toxic building of protein fragments in the brain.
School of Pharmacy leads in LivingGreen certifications
The School’s Dean’s Office received Platinum LivingGreen certification for reducing waste, energy, and water usage.
School reflects on legacy of achievement at Alumni Weekend 2019
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni celebrated the School of Pharmacy's long history of achievement in the discovery and clinical sciences, and clinical practice, at Alumni Weekend 2019.
Training computers to think more like scientists
Michael Keiser, PhD, and Kangway Chuang, PhD, want to use machine learning to speed the pace of drug discovery. By digging into the work of another lab, the pair realized how machine learning could lead scientists astray—and came up with methods to avoid its worst pitfalls.