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UCSF is launching a Facebook fan page and a page focusing on the upcoming “Stand Up to Cancer” national telecast on September 10 to raise the visibility of the health sciences university.
UCSF scientists will receive two grants totaling $15.1 million over the next five years to expand their research into how genes affect an individual’s response to medication and to strengthen a global network of researchers involved in these efforts.
The UCSF contingent finished in fifth place for its fundraising efforts out of all the teams that participated in AIDS Walk San Francisco 2010, according to the final official fundraising tally.
UCSF researchers today unveiled a prototype model of the first implantable artificial kidney, in a development that one day could eliminate the need for dialysis.
A UCSF employee was struck in the face by an African-American woman while walking to the BART Station at night, according to the UCSF Police Department.
Longtime disability rights advocate Alice Wong was recognized recently by the Mayor’s Disability Council for her leadership on behalf of people with disabilities.
New UCSF Faculty, September 2010
New UCSF Faculty, September 2010
If Regents approve one of the recommendations from a UC task force on post-employment benefits, faculty and staff will contribute 5 percent of their pay to the UC Retirement Plan by July 2012.
Ezlopitant, a compound known to suppress craving for alcohol in humans, was shown to decrease consumption of sweetened water by rodents in a study by researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, which is affiliated with UCSF.
A new video describes proposals for the ongoing management of the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve, a 61-acre forest within UCSF’s Parnassus campus.
UCSF researchers at the San VA Medical Center have been working with US Air Force officers to develop and field test Deployment Anxiety Reduction Training with the goal of stopping post-traumatic stress disorder before it starts.
UCSF is co-sponsoring a symposium on September 27 and 28 to provide scientists and physicians with the “nuts and bolts” of translating stem cell science into cell-based products for clinical trials.
A celebration of the Zen Hospice Project’s Guest House re-opening and new partnership with UCSF Medical Center.
The University of California will consider recommendations on changes to post-employment benefits that are outlined in a task force’s report now posted on the <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/ucrpfuture/">Future of the UC Retirement Benefits website</a>.
The UCSF Academic Senate is now collaborating with other groups in the Resource Allocation Program (RAP) to make obtaining intramural research funding easier for faculty.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann delivers a video message to the UCSF community to mark her first anniversary at the helm of the University.
UCSF physician Shira Shavit was honored recently for creating a medical home for former prison inmates and their families.
In a study of elderly Americans who moved to a nursing home for their final months or years of life, 80 percent died there within one year, according to an investigation by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
UCSF environmental health specialist Gina Solomon is calling for improved scientific study of and publicly available and robust data about the health hazards posed by the BP oil disaster.
UCSF is looking for an internal candidate – either a member of the faculty or staff – to become the University’s first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach.
In his first email address to the UCSF community since assuming the role as executive vice chancellor and provost, Jeffrey Bluestone says he is “proud and humbled by the exceptional work done by our faculty and staff in living up to UCSF’s vision.”
A joint project of UCSF and the Kenya Medical Research Institute has received $7 million—the first award of a five year grant that will total about $35 million—to expand its care and support of people affected by HIV/AIDS in Kenya.