University of California San Francisco
Enforcing copyright law could potentially interfere with patient care, stifle innovation and discourage research, but using open source licensing instead can prevent the problem, according to a physician – who practices both at UCSF and the San Francisco VA Medical Center – and a legal scholar at the UC Hastings College of Law.
<p>A cancer drug company founded by UCSF Professor <a href="http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/shokat_kevan.php">Kevan Shokat</a>, PhD, has been acquired by Japan-based Takeda Pharmaceuticals in an effort to add two novel drug projects to Takeda’s pipeline of potential oncology therapies.</p>
Peter Walter, PhD, a professor in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department within the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco has been awarded the 2012 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for his “outstanding research achievements in the field of cell biology.”