U.S. News & World Report 
ranked UC San Diego's
Department of Pharmacology
Third in Best Global Universities for Pharmacology and Toxicology in 2016

Department of Pharmacology 
  Ranked second in Total NIH Funding for 2016
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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, May 22, 2018
Kathleen Caron, Ph.D.
Univ of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"RAMPs and Atypical Chemokine Receptors"
12:00 p.m., Leichtag Building Rm.107

Thursday, May 24, 2018
Carsten Schultz, Ph.D.
Oregon Health & Sciences University
"Imaging disease-relevant events, a starting point for translational research"
12:00 p.m., Leichtag Building Rm.107

Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Anne-Claude Gingras, Ph.D.
Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Canada
"A Proximity Map of a Human Cell"
12:00 p.m., Leichtag Building Rm.107

Please click on the link to access the full seminar schedule and to check out recent event updates.

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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.

December 2017
JoAnn Trejo, PhD was named the 2017 E. E. Just Lecturer by the ASCB. The award recognizes outstanding scientific achievement by an underrepresented minority scientist.

Tannishtha Reya, PhD was awarded a 2017 UC Drug Discovery Consortium seed grant.  This cross-campus initiative, funded by the Office of the President through an MRPI award, aims to advance drug discovery capabilities and success at the University of California.

November 2017
Shabnam Shalapour, PhD and Michael Karin, PhD are featured in "How Chronic Inflammation Tips the Balance of Immune Cells to Promote Liver Cancer."

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