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September 21, 2012
Pharmacology Thesis Award Winners Announced:

Mark Eckert (Yang Lab)
Noel Warfel (Newton Lab)

Congratulations to two terrific students and their most capable mentors!

April 23, 2012
Jack Dixon named Royal Society Fellow

December 13, 2011
Alexandra Newton named AAAS Fellow

November 21, 2011
A Call to Congress to Protect Science Funding:
http://standwithscience.org/

October 24, 2011
Michael Karin In Atlantic

October 17, 2011
Michael Karin elected as new member of Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
http://www.iom.edu/2011members

May 26, 2011
Congratulations to the following Poster Winners at the Pharmacology Retreat!
Loren Brown
Graduate Student, Insel Lab
Meghan Miller
Graduate Student, P. Taylor Lab
Sunny Yang Xiang
Postdoc, Heller Brown Lab
David Lu
Graduate Student, Insel Lab
Karen Tumaneng
Graduate Student, Guan Lab

Funding Fest 2011 starts May 5th!

May 4, 2011
J. Andrew McCammon elected into the National Academy of Sciences

April 5, 2011
Roger Tsien Modifies plant protein to provide a way to see the previously unseen in Public Library of Science (PLoS).

March 14, 2011
Research from the group of Jing Yang provides a new twist on tumor metastasis inCancer Cell

February 18, 2011
UC San Diego School of Medicine now ranks ninth in the country for funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Pharmacology ranked #2 in the basic sciences rankings.
(We would be #1 except that the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacology ranking includes a $12M CTSA or Clinical and Translational Research Award.)

February 16, 2011
Michael Karin Identifies Key Culprit in Breast Cancer Metastasis in Nature.

February 15, 2011
UC San Diego School of Medicine now ranks ninth in the country for funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Pharmacology ranked #2 in the basic sciences rankings.
(We would be #1 except that the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacology ranking includes a $12M CTSA or Clinical and Translational Research Award.)

February 11, 2011
Time Magazine, features Roger Tsien, PhD and Quyen Nguyen, MD, PhD
“Light It Up Baby: Glow-in-the-Dark Surgery in the Works”
See also The Daily Mail, The San Diego Union Tribune, Drug Discovery & Development, KPBS, TGDaily, Spoonful of Medicine, and India Report 

February 8, 2011
Research by Melvin Simon, PhD and Sang-Kyou Han may help end itching caused by meds: The Hitch In The Drug? The Itch In The Drug

January 11, 2011
Drs. Philip Bourne and Kun-Liang Guan elected as AAAS Fellows

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