Categories: Honors and Awards

Giacomini earned the Brodie Award in Drug Metabolism and Disposition

Youmans led the development and implementation of the new PharmD curriculum.

The two faculty members have spent their careers working to improve therapies to treat disease.

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.

Kroon, who leads the School’s Department of Clinical Pharmacy, researches diabetes and tobacco cessation.

Desai was recognized for being a “pioneer in the use of micro and nanoscale materials to deliver protein and cell-based therapeutics.”

The School’s Dean’s Office received Platinum LivingGreen certification for reducing waste, energy, and water usage.

Impact Awards support new ways of determining how the new PharmD curriculum is working, according to Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans.

Cynthia Watchmaker, the School of Pharmacy’s associate dean of student affairs, was awarded the UCSF Chancellor’s Award for Exceptional University Management.

Research on topics ranging from drug abuse to heart pump complications took top honors at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy’s 21st annual Spring Research Seminar.