University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSF<p>The campus community is invited to a fashion show on November 16 featuring redesigned patient gowns as envisioned by young patients at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.</p>
UCSF oncologist Pamela Munster, MD, and her colleagues have discovered the molecular basis for tamoxifen resistance in women with breast cancer and found a potential way to defeat it by administering a second class of drugs.
<p>The UC Regents meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday this week has been cancelled due to safety concerns, according to UC officials.</p>
UCSF’s Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center is holding “Taste for the Cure: A Taste of Science,’’ a day for exploring the impact that food and science have on breast health.
<p>UCSF scientists <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=4829993" target="_blank">Anatol Kreitzer</a>, PhD, and <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=5506943" target="_blank">Loren Frank</a>, PhD, have won and will share the prestigious 2011 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience. </p>
<p>Microbes that dwell within us can help or harm us, according to UCSF experts at "Gut Check," a lunchtime panel discussion hosted by UCSF as part of the Bay Area Science Festival last week.</p>
Mark R. Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, has been elected by his peers as chair of the board of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). His term will run until November 2012.