Expert on pain sensation named UCSF physiology chair
David Julius, PhD, a pioneer in research clarifying the molecular basis of the sense of pain and temperature, has been named chair of the Department of Physiology in the UCSF School of Medicine.
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UCSF Mission Bay to Host Cancer Imaging Symposium on October 14
Leading scientists from UCSF, UC Berkeley and Stanford will come together at Mission Bay on October 14 to talk about advances in cancer imaging.
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UCSF's Mini Medical School for the Public Begins in October
The public is invited to join the conversation with the world's leading experts in medicine and the health sciences at UCSF's Mini Medical School for the community, which begins October 24.
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Free Cardiovascular Screenings During Chinatown Night Fair
This past Saturday night, UCSF's Asian Heart and Vascular Center offered free cardiovascular screenings to the public during the Chinatown Night Fair in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco.
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Former Mayor Willie Brown and SF Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White to host UCSF tree lighting event
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UCSF Nikon Imaging Center Opens
UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) have collaborated with Nikon Instruments Inc. to open the UCSF Nikon Imaging Center at the Mission Bay campus.
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Nobel Winner Credits UCSF Scientist with Early Lead to Key Finding
In a press conference at Stanford on Monday, and reported later in the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, one of the scientists who received the Nobel Prize for discovering how RNA can turn genes off credited early experiments by UCSF's Su Guo, PhD, for sparking the research.
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Max Seibold, Scientist and Oklahoman
Max Seibold, a son of the soil, left Oklahoma for a UCSF laboratory three years ago. What has happened since says much about the combustive power of science, stubbornness and stamina.
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Teen Diagnosed with MS Stays Positive About Her Future
After six months of treatment at UCSF Children's Hospital, a teen is feeling better and learning to live with Multiple Sclerosis.
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Studies in Translational Research: Bench to Bedside
The pulse of translational research is quickening throughout UCSF. Among the numerous endeavors under way are several that represent different disease areas and tactics.
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Campus Celebrates National Work and Family Month
UCSF celebrates National Work and Family Month beginning at noon today with a workshop on the benefits of allowing flexible work schedules at Laurel Heights.
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UCSF In the 21st Century: Translating Scientific Discovery to Patient Care
In 1999, UCSF broke ground for a new campus in San Francisco. The intent was to alleviate space restrictions on its primary campus, UCSF Parnassus Heights, and allow UCSF, world-renowned for its basic science research, clinical training and patient care, to stretch in ways that would allow it to enhance its performance.
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UCSF Set to Transform Itself into Engine of Translational Research
Signaling a watershed moment in the evolution of University of California, San Francisco, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that UCSF has received funding for a major new venture designed to accelerate the pace at which scientific discovery is translated into patient care.
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UCSF Leaders Reflect on Significance of Clinical and Translational Science Institute
The goal of a new institute at UCSF is to bring better therapies and preventive medicine to more people more quickly.
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Gladstone Institutes ranks second in The Scientist survey of best places to work in academia
The J. David Gladstone Institutes is ranked North America's second "best place to work in academia," according to The Scientist magazine's annual survey, published in its October issue.
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Sales of Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbon Stickers to Support Friend to Friend Shop
North Bay-based sticker company Mrs. Grossman's has chosen the Friend to Friend Specialty Shop in UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion as their primary beneficiary of sales from a new pink breast cancer awareness ribbon line being introduced in October to recognize National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
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New Nikon Imaging Center opens at UCSF
Nikon Instruments, UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) announced today the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center to promote education and innovation in microscopy imaging.
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Exhibition features art by cancer patients
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"The Wait for Life" Highlights Organ Sharing Debate, with UCSF's Liver Transplant Service at the Cen
A difficult conundrum for the nation's transplant patients was aired September 22 when the news program <i>California Connected </i>featured UCSF's liver transplant program.
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Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Q & A with Naomi Stotland, MD
Putting on a few extra pounds during pregnancy has been thought to be a normal and healthy part of the gestational process. But what happens when a woman gains too much weight, or too little?
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UCSF Stands to Gain from Proposition 1D on Nov. 7 Ballot
UCSF will be one of the beneficiaries if voters approve Proposition 1D, the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, on the November 7 ballot.
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Bloomingdale's Grand Opening Raises $210,000 for UCSF Children's Hospital
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Barbara and Gerson Bakar were among those attending Tuesday's grand opening of Bloomingdale's at the Westfield San Francisco Centre.
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Students Learn About Teamwork During Interprofessional Education Day
For the first time in UCSF history, first-year students from all four schools learned the importance of teamwork in patient safety.
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UC Says Fastow Implicated Banks in Enron Fraud
Sworn testimony by former Enron chief financial officer Andy Fastow, which was made public for the first time today (Sep. 26), coupled with internal documents detailing the scheme, makes it clear that Enron's banks were not innocent bystanders in one of the greatest corporate scandals in our nation's history — but that these financial institutions served as the actual masterminds behind the scheme to defraud investors.
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Fueled by major grant, scientists to identify protein markers for cancer
A team led by Bay Area scientists is one of five nationwide to receive a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to refine and standardize the technologies for identifying biomarkers in the blood -- specific proteins, and the patterns they make -- for the early detection of cancer.
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German Science Stirs (with a UCSF Spin), Part 2 of 2
Volker Doetsch, director of the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Frankfurt's Goethe University, explains how science is flourishing in Germany, thanks to strong government support, particularly for infrastructure and staff. America, take note.
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Organ Transplant System the Focus of "The Wait for Life"
For this <i>California Connected </i>news story about long waiting times for liver transplants, producer Jon Dann filmed interviews with UCSF physicians John Roberts, MD and Nathan Bass, MD, PhD; interviews with UCSF patients Eric De Leon and Anthony Montoya; and coverage of the living-donor liver transplant performed on August 31, where baby Brooke received part of a new liver from her mother, Betty.
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Swim Raises $100,000 for UCSF Children's Hospital Cancer Program
The West Coast's first "Swim Across America" event on Saturday raised $100,000 for the Survivors of Childhood Cancer Program at UCSF Children's Hospital.
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Lasker Foundation: The Winners on Film
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 57, Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been named to receive the 2006 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research.
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Smokers of menthol cigarettes may have harder time quitting
Although menthol and non-menthol cigarettes appear to be equally harmful to the lungs and cardiovascular system, menthol cigarettes may be harder to quit, according to a UCSF-led study that tracked more than 1,200 smokers over 15 years.