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News Headlines on January 17, 2009

UCSF Student Pharmacist Becomes Agent of Change

In his academic journey at UCSF and nationally as a student pharmacist leader, Ashish Patel, creates lasting connections between his peers and the underserved, while paving the way for greater diversity within the profession. In his wake:

• a group of 30 UCSF student pharmacists gives back to fifth-graders at the Rosa Parks Elementary School in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood some of the science education lacking in their curriculum
• underrepresented San Francisco Bay Area minority high school students learn about health care careers through exposure to science, and skill development in writing, interviewing, and presentation techniques.

 More: UCSF Pharmacy Student Promotes Diversity, Community Outreach on National Scale

Kroetz Elected Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

Deanna Kroetz, PhD, UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member, has been elected as a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS). Her election was announced during the November 2008 annual AAPS meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. AAPS Fellows are recognized for their professional excellence and outstanding contributions that elevate the stature of the pharmaceutical sciences. Kroetz, whose research encompasses drug metabolism, drug transport, and pharmacogenetics, is currently studying the functional effects of genetic variations, called polymorphisms, in specific membrane transporters that affect the movement of drugs and natural molecules into and out of cells.  Read More: Kroetz Elected Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists

Benet Receives Magic Bullet Lifetime Achievement Award

Leslie Z. Benet, PhD, UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member, received the 2008 Paul Ehrlich Magic Bullet Lifetime Achievement Award at the Second World Conference on Magic Bullets, which convened in Nuremberg, Germany, in early October. The award recognized Benet's scientific accomplishments in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. Pharmacokinetics is the quantitative study of how drugs are taken up, biologically transformed, distributed, metabolized, and eliminated from the body, while pharmacodynamics is the quantitative study of drug action.  Read More: Benet Receives Magic Bullet Lifetime Achievement Award

Bero and Team Reveal Incomplete Reporting of Clinical Drug Trial Data

Research by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Lisa Bero, PhD, and UCSF colleagues Kristen Rising, MD, and Peter Bacchetti, PhD, have found that the information that is readily available to health professionals in the scientific literature on clinical drug trials is incomplete and potentially biased. The results of their observational study appeared in the open access journal PLoS Medicine, November 24, 2008 online and have subsequently attracted international media attention.

More

• Psych Problem #2: Cooking the Books, Wired Science blog, November 25, 2008
• Drug Companies Cook Books, Misleading Doctors, David Dob's Smooth Pebbles blog, November 26, 2008
• Absence of Evidence, The Economist, November 27, 2008
• What You Don't Know About a Drug Can Hurt You, Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2008
• UCSF says reports on drug trials skew positive, San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2008
• Publication Bias Found Among Trials Submitted To FDA: New Study, Science Daily, November 26, 2008
• A New Year's Resolution for the FDA: Kick the Drug (Company) Habit, The Huffington Post, January 12, 2009

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