U.S. News & World Report 
ranked UC San Diego's
Department of Pharmacology
Second in Best Global Universities for Pharmacology and Toxicology in 2018

Department of Pharmacology 
  Ranked second in Total NIH Funding for 2017
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Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is proud to announce the launch of their new M.S. in Drug Development & Product Management degree program.  The first class of students will commence September 2018. 

Cutting-edge seminars are hosted almost every Tuesday in the UC San Diego Department of Pharmacology.  

Upcoming Seminars:
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Vincent Tagliabracci, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 
"Expanding the Kinome"
12:00 p.m., Leichtag Building, Room 107

October 2018
J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD and Anjana Rao, PhD are featured in "La Jolla Institute Receives $4.5 Mill Cancer Moonshot Award."

Jin Zhang, PhD and Sohum Mehta, PhD are featured in "10 Years Later: How Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien’s Legacy Lives On."   

September 2018
JoAnn Trejo, PhD is featured in "How Cells Repurpose their Garbage Disposal Systems to Promote Inflammation."

Michael Karin, PhD is featured in "Caspase-2 Enzyme Inhibition Shows Promise for Ameliorating Fatty Liver Disease."

J. Silvio Gutkind, PhD's recent work was highlighted by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.   

January 2018
Richard Daneman, PhD was awarded the 2018 Division for Neuropharmacology -- Early Career Independent Investigator Award from ASPET.  This award recognizes Dr. Daneman's important discoveries that have changed the understanding of the blood-brain barrier.

April 2018

Congratulations to all our poster and presentation award winners at the 2018 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Diego!  Pictured below are Pharmacological Sciences Training Grant award winners Amy Chin, Aleena Arakaki, Tim Baffi and An-Angela Van.  Not pictured are Pharmacology postdoctoral winners Cameron Brand, Eric Greenwald and Takeshi Suetomi.We also had an excellent turnout at the Pharmacology Alumni Mixer.  A great time was had by All!  

​October 2017
Dr. Silvio Gutkind, PhD hosted the Moore's Cancer Center Retreat on October 31, 2017.

In attendance were from L to R: Dr. Silvio Gutkind, Dr. Alexandra Newton, Dr. Joan Heller Brown, and Dr. Tracy Handel.

​November 2016
Department of Pharmacology Faculty Participate in the "Padres Pedal the Cause: A World Without Cancer" Fundraiser

This event is an annual cycling fundraiser that donates 100% of the net proceeds to benefit cancer research.  The three San Diego based National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, Sanford Burnham Presbys Medical Research Institute and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, as well as Rady Children's hospital are beneficiaries.  The goal is to fund research that may lead to a cure for cancer. 
Team Members - From Left to Right: Jin Zhang, Silvio Gutkind, and Maya Kunkel