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Thu Apr 26, 2012

From the start of his illustrious half-century career in mass spectrometry, Al Burlingame, PhD, has been part of a scientific sea change.

In his first lab at UC Berkeley, complete with a dirt floor and leaky roof, he looked for signs of extraterrestrial life in meteorites. He compares an earlier mass spectrometry...

Fri Apr 13, 2012

New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included these on-going projects by faculty in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy:

Malaria treatment for HIV-positive children and pregnant women Francesca Aweeka, PharmD Professor in residence Awarded $579,350...
Fri Apr 13, 2012

New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included a half-dozen on-going projects by BTS faculty:

Genetic mutations and liver cancer Xin Chen, PhD Associate adjunct professor Awarded two new grants totaling $351,488 from the National Institute of Alcohol...
Fri Apr 13, 2012

For the 32nd consecutive year, the UCSF School of Pharmacy received more research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the United States.

Total grants and contracts awarded to School of Pharmacy researchers during the NIH fiscal year 2011 (running from October 1, 2010 to...

Fri Apr 13, 2012

New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included these on-going projects by faculty in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry:

Precisely targeting malaria parasites with drugs Adam Renslo, PhD Associate director of chemistry for the department-housed...
Thu Apr 12, 2012

UCSF bioengineer Tejal Desai, PhD, will receive the 2012 Paul R. Dawson Biotechnology Award from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) at the group’s annual meeting in July.

The award honors Desai for her contributions to contemporary teaching and scholarship in biotechnology. She is a faculty member...

Mon Apr 9, 2012

The effort led by UCSF bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD, to create an implantable artificial kidney for dialysis patients has been selected as one of the first projects to undergo more timely and collaborative review at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FDA announced on April 9, 2012 that it had chosen three...

Fri Apr 6, 2012

UCSF School of Pharmacy Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning Tina Brock, BSPharm, MSPH, EdD, became president of the national pharmacy leadership society, Phi Lambda Sigma (PLS), at the March 2012 meeting of the American Pharmacists Association in New Orleans.

Brock was voted president-elect by the society’s...

Wed Apr 4, 2012

New research support awarded to the UCSF School of Pharmacy by the National Institutes of Health during the 2011 fiscal year included two on-going projects by postdoctoral fellows:

Improving computer programs to yield better drug candidates Ryan Coleman, PhD Post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Brian Shoichet, PhD...