Two new programs are being developed to expose opportunities for applicants to pharmacy school among underserved communities in California’s central San Joaquin Valley, thanks to funding from the California Health Care Foundation CHCF. tiny.ucsf.edu/8xuxpz

Congrats to Dean Kathy Giacomini, PhD, BSPharm, co-director of UCSF-Stanford CERSI, on becoming one of the few pharmacist-scientists elected to the historic and distinguished American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is among four scientists and clinicians at UC San Francisco to be honored. tiny.ucsf.edu/AbQqVt

Adjunct faculty member Charles Hart, PhD, is the new director of the Small Molecule Discovery Center (SMDC), bringing his expertise as director of the Catalyst Program, UCSF’s translational accelerator, to further collaboration in developing drug leads. tiny.ucsf.edu/L1tSDv

Find out how UC San Francisco Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology faculty member Rupa Tuan, PhD, who also teaches pharmacology at UC San FranciscoMedicine and UCSF Dentistry, answered the question: If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say? tiny.ucsf.edu/rpxTor

Three students with ties to the School of Pharmacy were finalists in UC San Francisco's Grad Slam 2024, which challenges graduate students to explain their research to an audience of non-experts in just three minutes. Watch their talks! tiny.ucsf.edu/MGMz5x

Advocacy Day 2024, hosted by CPhA and UNAC/UHCP 😷, offered our learners insight into legislation affecting the pharmacy profession, including a bill that would rein in anticompetitive practices by pharmacy benefit managers. tiny.ucsf.edu/pshEFN

🏆 Congrats to the UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy team in the Value of Industry Pharmacists (VIP) Case Competition, presented by Industry Pharmacists and the National Fellows Council (NFC), for taking the top spot––for the 2nd year in a row! tiny.ucsf.edu/NoaWmn

🏆 The UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy has ranked 2nd place nationally and 1st place in CA in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report survey of best accredited pharmacy schools and programs, recognizing our research and innovation leadership. tiny.ucsf.edu/WqNZy2

Congrats to IGHS Affiliate Rada Savic, PhD, of UCSF School of Pharmacy whose team has received a $30.8M grant from the NIH to establish a tuberculosis consortium of experts to research the most effective treatment options for future clinical testing.
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As a former Navy helicopter pilot, Diana Cowell, PharmD ’14, MBA, was accustomed to challenges. Today she integrates her experiences from global hot spots and the USNS Comfort as a clinical pharmacist practitioner in a New York VA Health Care System. tiny.ucsf.edu/PeC3DQ

In 2023, for the 44th year, the UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy received more research funding from the National Institutes of Health (@NIH) than any other pharmacy school in the country, with school researchers netting $36,769,061 million to fuel their efforts. tiny.ucsf.edu/i2CLne

The 5th annual Innovations in Regulatory Science Summit, hosted by the UCSF-Stanford CERSI (UCSF-Stanford CERSI) on Jan 7, 2024, gathered leaders from academia, the U.S. FDA, and industry to debate
the role of regulatory science & medical product development. tiny.ucsf.edu/vzG4ps

Congrats to Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD, a UC San Francisco faculty member in the Dept. of Pharm Chem, who is the newly awarded 2024 Bowes Biomedical Investigator, a program that provides selected scientists with $1.25M over five years to further their research. tiny.ucsf.edu/oxPaHz

Channeling his passion for chemistry and computers into the ever-evolving landscape of pharmacy, @ucsf alum Zachary Hearns, PharmD, BCPS, carved out his own lane—from military service to innovative pharmacy leadership. tiny.ucsf.edu/FoyJE9

📷 Coding the Future of Medicine: We're launching a new MS in AI and Computational Drug Discovery & Development (AICD3)! This program will train the next gen of scientists, revolutionizing drug discovery and development. Starting in Fall '24 at UC San Francisco! 📷 tiny.ucsf.edu/FUYTPs

Congrats to PharmD students Linda Cheng and Siavash Panahi, who earned first-place honors in the 28th annual Clinical Skills Competition of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the 3rd time a team from the School has won. tiny.ucsf.edu/vFohQ8

Robert Langridge, PhD, a professor emeritus in the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Chemistry who was an icon in molecular computer graphics, has passed. Honored in 2018 with the UC San Francisco Medal, he pushed the field into the computational era. tiny.ucsf.edu/GdLAjE

Clinical pharmacy pioneer David Adler, PharmD ’70, passed away on Nov 4. A tribute is planned for Jan 13, 2024, and the Adler family has requested that remembrances be made as contributions to the David and Penny Adler Endowed Scholarship Fund. tiny.ucsf.edu/Yz3Ztl

Executive Vice Dean Sharon L Youmans, PharmD, MPH, a faculty member in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, has been named a recipient of the ASHP-Association of Black Health-System Pharmacists (@MyABHP) Joint Leadership Award for 2023. tiny.ucsf.edu/N17oaA

In his State of the University address, Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, said UC San Francisco is well-positioned to transform into a global leader in AI-enabled academic life sciences. Hear him lay out his vision for responsibly leveraging the power of AI across UCSF. tiny.ucsf.edu/cIeZ3R