School of Pharmacy tops pharmacy schools in NIH funding for 39th straight year
Among all U.S. pharmacy schools, the UCSF School of Pharmacy earned the most research funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling nearly $29 million dollars that will support...
View ArticleSchool of Pharmacy scientists unearth a new target for treating Parkinson’s...
Scientists in the UCSF School of Pharmacy recently identified the first drug-binding target site on a molecule known to play a role in Parkinson's disease, opening the door to a new generation of...
View Article2019 Koda-Kimble Seed Award supports School of Pharmacy’s boldest ideas
The 2019 Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation will fund nine bold research projects, ranging from studies of the molecular underpinnings of cancer to focus groups designed to prepare PharmD...
View ArticleDemanding change: 2019 Distinguished Alumnus Glen L. Stimmel, PharmD
“Challenging the status quo leads to very good things,” said Glen L. Stimmel, PharmD ’72, who has spent a career doing just that. As a motto, it has served him, and his profession, quite well. Stimmel,...
View ArticleTraining computers to think more like scientists
Michael Keiser, PhD, and Kangway Chuang, PhD, want to use machine learning to speed the pace of drug discovery. By digging into the work of another lab, the pair realized how machine learning could...
View ArticleSchool reflects on legacy of achievement at Alumni Weekend 2019
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni celebrated the School of Pharmacy's long history of achievement in the discovery and clinical sciences, and clinical practice, at Alumni Weekend 2019.
View ArticleUCSF School of Pharmacy celebrates Commencement 2019
On May 3, in front of a crowd of more than one thousand gathered at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the 122 members of the UCSF School of Pharmacy graduating class of 2019 received...
View ArticleUpdate from the Dean – May 2019
Dear UCSF School of Pharmacy Family and Friends: At the UCSF School of Pharmacy we don’t just embrace change, we create it. We have a rich history as drivers of change in our profession, in science,...
View ArticleSchool of Pharmacy leads in LivingGreen certifications
The School’s Dean’s Office received Platinum LivingGreen certification for reducing waste, energy, and water usage.
View ArticleSchool scientists identify faulty molecular recycling as potential driver of...
School scientists recently uncovered how neurons normally recycle old proteins, and how this process goes awry in Alzheimer's disease, leading to the toxic building of protein fragments in the brain.
View ArticleVR drug discovery makes precision therapy a reality
ChimeraX, virtual reality software developed at the UCSF Resource for Biocomputing, Visualization and Informatics, is now the tool of choice for computational structural biologists in the School of...
View ArticlePharmD students see to Dean Guglielmo's flu shot
Getting vaccinated for the flu not only lowers a person’s chance of getting sick, it also helps protect their whole community.
View ArticleAssemi and Clinard assume new associate dean roles
Mitra Assemi and Valerie Clinard were appointed to new associate dean roles in the UCSF School of Pharmacy. Both roles support the School’s evolving doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) degree program.
View ArticleDonors unite to honor Toby Herfindal and his commitment to innovation in...
The Toby Herfindal Presidential Chair for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will be used to support faculty members and/or graduate students in the UCSF School of Pharmacy
View ArticleTwo School members earn UCSF Chancellor’s Awards for Diversity
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.
View ArticlePharmacists uniquely poised to reduce unnecessary prescriptions
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, argues that pharmacists can help reduce the use of unnecessary medications.
View ArticleElizabeth Daniels Fund underscores the importance of community
In permanent recognition of Elizabeth Daniels’ decades-long commitment to nurturing an inclusive UCSF School of Pharmacy community, a gift of $1 million to the UCSF Foundation by Troy Daniels, DDS, and...
View ArticleFDA, academia, and industry join forces to shepherd new therapies to patients
UCSF-Stanford CERSI brings together scientists, industry, and government regulators to get new therapies to patients sooner.
View ArticleSample medications and detailing visits add to costs, Guglielmo argues
Free samples of medications and “detailing visits” are costly, B. Joseph Guglielmo argues in JAMA.
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