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A UCSF opthamologist and bioengineer are collaborating to develop a tiny, flexible, implantable film that's able to deliver conventional medicines and also complex antibody-based drugs to treat eye diseases.
Ruben Rathnasingham, PhD, associate director of Early Translational Research at UCSF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute, is leading the team responsible for LaunchPad. In this Q&A, he discusses the project and how it can benefit researchers.
Teams of scientists at UCSF are collaborating to build upon existing imaging techniques and find new ways to monitor diseases using creative applications of emerging technologies.
A team from UCSF was one of six winners of the worldwide OpenIDEO/Mayo Clinic Challenge that sought to answer the question, “How might we all maintain well-being and thrive as we age?”
The way cells divide to form new cells – to support growth, to repair damaged tissues, or simply to maintain our healthy adult functioning – is controlled in previously unsuspected ways, UCSF researchers have discovered.
UCSF's 500 first-year students learned about the benefits of teamwork, coordinated efforts and knowledge sharing to improve patient care at Interprofessional Education Day.
In an unprecedented move, the California Academy of Sciences inducted two UC San Francisco scientists from the Gladstone Institutes’, President R. Sanders “Sandy” Williams, MD, and Investigator Katherine Pollard, PhD, as Academy Fellows.