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J&J Funds Promising QB3 Research
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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Receives California Distinguished Citizen Award
<p>In an event that celebrated the energy, creativity and innovation of the Bay Area, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann and three other Bay Area leaders were honored on April 18, each receiving the Commonwealth Club of California’s 2012 Distinguished Citizen Award.</p>
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An Artificial Kidney To Take Patients Off The Transplant Waiting List
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Environmental Health Expert Named Deputy Secretary at State Environmental Protection Agency
<p>Keeping her eyes on the strawberry fields of central California, the bustling diesel truck routes in Oakland, and the stubborn toxic soils of the former Naval ship yards at San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunter’s Point, UCSF Associate Professor Gina Solomon, MD, MPH will soon have a new vantage point — the state capitol.</p>
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Depression Linked to Higher Odds for Poor Leg Circulation
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How Can We Listen to Just One Voice at a Crowded Party?
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Vaccine for Brain Cancer Being Developed
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Two Unrelated Wednesday Afternoon Events
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Media Advisory: Free Skin Cancer Screening at UCSF
In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the UCSF Department of Dermatology is offering free skin cancer screenings. The event is co-sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, and San Francisco Supervisor Christina Olague.
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Flossing Is Good For The Gums, But Doesn't Help The Heart
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UCSF Police Inform Campus About World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week: April 21-29
<p>The UCSF Police Department would like to inform members of the UCSF community that April 21 through April 29, 2012, has been designated as World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week. </p>
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Stunning UCSF Neuroscience Building Coming Online
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Study Shows How Brain Tunes Out Background Noise, Hears One Voice
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Reinventing the Third-Year Medical Student
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101-Year-Old S.F. Doctor Gets a House Call From Itzhak Perlman
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UCSF Researchers Decipher 'Selective Hearing'
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UCSF Hosts First-Ever All-Alumni Weekend
<p>For the first time, UCSF is hosting a campuswide alumni reunion this weekend that will unite all four professional schools (dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy) and the Graduate Division.</p>
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Scientist Robert Grant Named One of Time Magazine's TIME 100
<p><em>Time </em>magazine has named Gladstone and UCSF scientist Robert Grant, MD, MPH, to the <a href="https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2111975_2111976_2112159,00.html" target="_blank">2012 TIME 100</a>, the magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people.</p>
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Marijuana Use Higher in Young Adult Smokers than Previously Reported
Half of young adult tobacco smokers also have smoked marijuana in the last 30 days, according to a recent Facebook-based survey conducted by UCSF researchers, indicating a greater prevalence of marijuana and tobacco co-use among smokers age 18-25 than previously reported.
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UC Global Health Attracts NIH Funds to Train Next Generation of Global Health Researchers
<p>The UC Global Health Institute has received one of five, $4 million grants from the Fogarty International Center to support 50 to 60 new fellows in global health research over the next five years, starting September 2012.</p>
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Gladstone Scientists Regenerate Damaged Hearts By Transforming Scar Tissue into Beating Heart Muscle
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes announced a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting scar-forming cardiac cells into beating heart muscle.
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Brain Cancer Vaccine Extends Life Expectency: Other Cancer Vaccines In The Works
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Breakthrough Offers New Hope for Heart Repair
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'Cocktail Party Effect' Identified in the Brain
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Robert Grant: AIDS Researcher
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How Selective Hearing Works In the Brain
<p>The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works — how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs — is solved this week in the journal <em>Nature</em> by two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).</p>
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How We Identify Single Voices in a Crowd
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Killing in War Linked with Suicidal Thoughts Among Vietnam Veterans, Study Finds
The experience of killing in war was strongly associated with thoughts of suicide, in a study of Vietnam-era veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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The Genome Is a Structure, Not Just an Abstraction