Research

Scientists investigate the weird genetics of bat wings

Mon Mar 28, 2016

Ahituv Lab research finds how bats grow wings, with implications for human limb development

Mon Mar 28, 2016

Researchers in the laboratory of UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Nadav Ahituv, PhD, study the roles of gene regulatory elements—DNA segments that tell genes when, where, and to what extent to turn on and off—including in human conditions ranging from limb malformations to epilepsy and autism.

Fragment-based discovery: using smaller molecules to solve larger challenges

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.

Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

Mon Mar 21, 2016

UC San Francisco establishes Quantitative Biosciences Institute

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...

Craik receives Protein Society’s Emil Thomas Kaiser Award

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.