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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.
Tue Jan 10, 2012
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, announced today that she is stepping down as dean and retiring from UCSF on June 30, 2012, after 14 years as dean and 41 years as a member of the faculty. “I am prouder than ever with the accomplishments of our staff, faculty, and students and more energized than ever...
Mon Jan 9, 2012
Partners in D, the innovative program in which UCSF student pharmacists help both underserved seniors and fellow health professionals maximize the complex Medicare Part D drug benefit, has won a national award for community service.
Student teams from UCSF and three other schools of pharmacy will receive the 2011-12 Student Community...
Wed Jan 4, 2012
Appearing on a segment of The Dr. Oz Show, Nancy Nkansah, PharmD, gave millions of TV viewers key tips on avoiding drug interactions as well as errors in the filling of their medications.
Nkansah, a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, UCSF School of Pharmacy, noted that:
Tue Nov 29, 2011
If you are a pharmaceutical company seeking to switch your prescription medication to one sold directly to consumers—as an over-the-counter or OTC drug—William Soller, PhD, has your road map.
In a recently published study, Soller and co-authors analyzed the questions framing U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Tue Nov 22, 2011
A holy grail of drug discovery is to answer key questions about potential new drugs less by experiments in petri dishes and lab animals and more by faster, cheaper engineering efforts using predictive computer models.
UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member and bioengineer Anthony Hunt, PhD, and...
Thu Nov 17, 2011
The robotic pharmacy at the UCSF Medical Center is the recipient of a 2011 Best of What’s New (Archived) designation by Popular Science. Each year since 1987, the publication reviews thousands of innovations and chooses the top 100 winners that represent significant steps forward. The robotic pharmacy uses robotic technology and...
Thu Nov 10, 2011
A two-year-old, cross-disciplinary effort to invent new medical devices for children, co-founded by bioengineer Shuvo Roy, PhD, has received a two-year $1 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expand its work.
The Pediatric Device Consortium, first funded in 2009, has already developed a...
Wed Nov 9, 2011
The office of Lisa Bero, PhD, on UCSF’s Laurel Heights campus has long been a key portal between the School of Pharmacy and the world at large, including countries where billions of people cannot get even the most vital life-saving drugs.
Now that portal has grown in significance with the September 2011 designation of...
Tue Nov 8, 2011
To reduce the risk of toxic drug interactions, UCSF's Kathy Giacomini, PhD, and colleagues are screening thousands of prescription drugs, testing how much they inhibit key proteins in kidney and liver cells that help clear medications from the body.
This is the first large-scale screening of drugs for...