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UCSF Pharmacy Student Promotes Diversity, Community Outreach on National Scale
Fourth-year student Ashish Patel has worked tirelessly at both the local and national level to inspire youth from all backgrounds to consider careers in medicine or science.
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Study of Powerful Genes and Cancer Points to Vitamin D, Inflammation
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UCSF researchers use new tools to move in on cancer susceptibility genes
UCSF researchers have used a new strategy to study inherited susceptibility for skin cancer in mice. In the process, they have identified a network of genes that may play a key role in controlling this susceptibility. The technique, the scientists say, could be used to identify such genes in human cancers.
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Looking Far Afield for Pancreas Cancer Clues
Consider the lab mouse. The rodent is used to model tumor growth in countless studies of genes and cancer. About 99 percent of mouse genes also appear in humans. Mouse and human also are similar when one compares the DNA code within these genes. Mice get cancer, and they get more cancer when genetically engineered with human cancer-causing genes.
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The Immune System and Natural Killer Cells: A Conversation with Lewis Lanier
New research published in the scientific journal Nature this week strongly suggests that underappreciated cells of the immune system, called natural killers, play a more important role than previously thought when it comes to fighting viruses that cause chronic disease – including a common herpesvirus called CMV, and perhaps HIV, hepatitis C and many others.
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UC Regents to Consider Plans to Trim Enrollment, Freeze Senior Management Pay
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Maria W. Yiu joins Department of Laboratory Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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Shedding More Light on Surgery as a Global Health Concern
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Sophia Saeed join Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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New State Medical Privacy Laws Incurring Personal Liability Now Effective
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Medical Center Revamps Practices to Keep Heart Patients Out of Hospital
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Nominations Sought for Awards for Exceptional Management, Service
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Nominations Due Jan. 16 for Chancellor's Public Service Award
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UCSF Faculty Get Insiders' Look at Cuban Health Care System
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Colon Cancer and Heredity: A Conversation with Amie Blanco
Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the nation’s fourth most common cancer in both men and women. Like other forms of cancer, colon cancer has a hereditary component, and individuals who are genetically predisposed to colon cancer have a lifetime risk of at least 80 percent.
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UCSF and Muhimbili University launch initiative to strengthen Tanzanian health workforce
The University of California, San Francisco has received a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address the shortage of healthcare workers in Tanzania. The two-year grant will support a strategic collaboration between UCSF Global Health Sciences and the Muhimbili University of Health Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania to develop, implement and document strategies to enable MUHAS and other African institutions to meet their countries’ health workforce needs.
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Drug Design Caution for Biotech and Pharma Firms That Target Kinases
Drug design is never easy, and few drug candidates make it through the development pipeline and into the medicine cabinet. Side effects loom large among potential bugaboos. In the Dec. 14 online edition of the leading scientific journal Nature, a UCSF laboratory research team now reports another unintended consequence of drugs targeted against enzymes, known as kinases, within the body.
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UCSF's Blackburn featured in SF Chronicle, discussing impact of lifestyle on cell aging
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Lauren Weiss joins Institute for Human Genetics
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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Renee Y. Hsia joins Emergency Medicine Department
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
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2008 Year in Review
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UCSF Study Aims to Protect Joints, on Earth and Off
Starting in January, a UCSF postdoctoral researcher will launch the first-ever study of the effects of prolonged nonuse on human cartilage.
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Silicon Valley Blogger and UCSF Heart Patient Shares Lessons Learned
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Flores Wins Maybelline New York Beauty of Education Award
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UCSF Named Among 15 Top Places to Work in Academia
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UCSF Women's Health Radio Discusses Obama's Plans for Healthcare Reform
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School of Dentistry Tackles Oral Health Disparities with Largest-Ever Grant
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Nominations Due by January 6 for the Chancellor's Award for the Advancement of Women
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Parkinson's Researcher Wins Prestigious Award to Study Disease's Origins