Nation Launches Innovative Breast Cancer Trial
Taking an innovative path toward personalized medicine, scientists for the first time will be able to eliminate – at an early point in a clinical trial — experimental drugs that show poor efficacy, dramatically shortening the time it takes to get the right medication to the right patient with breast cancer. This unique national clinical trial for breast cancer — novel in its design, collaborative scope, and ability to serve as a prototype for many other diseases — gets underway this week at UCSF. Read more...

 

Dean Koda-Kimble to Receive Pharmacy Profession's Highest Honor
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD, will receive the 2010 Remington Honor Medal, the profession’s highest honor administered by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA); the award recognizes distinguished service and/or outstanding achievement on behalf of American pharmacy. Read more...

 

Neurosciences Building to Take Scientific Research to the Next Level
UCSF is moving forward with plans to construct a neurosciences building at Mission Bay where the world’s top clinical and basic-science researchers will collaborate to prevent, treat and cure pervasive neurologic diseases and disorders such as Alzheimer’s, stroke and epilepsy. Read more...

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