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Warif Kastoun, PharmD
Mon Jun 10, 2024
Nearly a third of the University of California’s Class of 2024 started their higher education journey at California community colleges, including Warif Kastoun, PharmD, whose plans to run her own local pharmacy in Damascus, Syria, were interrupted by civil war.
Fri Dec 1, 2017
“UCSF has put its stake in the ground on exposing industry manipulation of science.”
Mon Nov 27, 2017
Burchard Lab colleagues step up to help residents of the island get fresh water.
Tue Nov 21, 2017
A tiny implant promises to simplify how glaucoma drugs are administered, making life easier for aging patients.
Thu Nov 9, 2017
Pharmacists are going to be more integral to health care teams in the future.
Thu Nov 2, 2017
A pioneering public/private consortium is poised to turn the marathon of drug discovery into a team relay, maybe even a short one.
Mon Oct 23, 2017
For decades, scientists have wanted to be able to study dopamine receptors one by one. The brain’s dopamine receptors are responsible for a variety of behaviors, such as reward seeking, and are also involved in psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia. There are five types of dopamine receptors, and psychiatric drugs usually affect multiple...
Thu Oct 19, 2017
A UC San Francisco-created, insulin-generating implant that utilizes nanotechnology is closer to becoming a real treatment for diabetes, after being acquired by a San Francisco-based startup.
The biotechnology company Encellin acquired exclusive worldwide rights to the technology, originally developed in the laboratory of Tejal Desai,...
Thu Oct 19, 2017
Ana Cruz knew, when she was very young, exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up, she told the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021 at their White Coat ceremony.
She wanted the same job as the woman in white.
Now, Cruz is a PharmD student in the Class of 2018, and was the student speaker at the event, held Friday...
Wed Oct 18, 2017
For the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021, October 13 was the day they officially entered the profession. In a ceremony on the Parnassus campus, each student donned a white coat, a symbol of health care professionals for more than 100 years.
“Today marks your transition from lay person to full-fledged professional,” Dean B...