Can Kenyon's Roundworms Lead Us to the Fountain of Youth?
UCSF Biochemistry and Biophysics Professor Cynthia Kenyon, PhD, presented her research on roundworms last week, revealing insights into the cellular mechanisms of aging.
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State Budget Means Raises for Faculty, Staff
UC will be able to give salary increases to eligible faculty and staff as part of a plan to make salaries more competitive over the next 10 years.
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Three School of Pharmacy Research Scientists Receive Top Honors
Three UCSF pharmaceutical chemistry professors have recently been selected to receive high national recognition for their pioneering research.
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Quiz Highlights UCSF's Role in National Service
John Maa, MD, has been named the winner of a special quiz that shows how UCSF faculty members have served in the nation's top health posts.
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UCSF School of Nursing celebrating 100 years of excellence
The UCSF School of Nursing is celebrating 100 years of nursing excellence with a year-long series of special events that honor the accomplishments of alumni and faculty and the leadership of nurses throughout the university.
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Young Woman Breathes Freely After Heart Transplant
Aspiring artist Ila May Fisher has recovered after a successful heart transplant at UCSF Medical Center.
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Final Push for AIDS Walk Support
Time is running out for those who may be procrastinating about joining or supporting the AIDS Walk.
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From Toronto, UCSF's Kriegstein Comments on the State of Stem Cell Science
Several UCSF scientists attended the fourth annual International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Toronto, June 28-July 1.
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Robert Mansfield Makes UCSF the Latest Stop on His Comeback Trail
UCSF prides itself on employing staff with diverse and unique personal stories.
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"Synthetic Biology" Yields Bacteria That Take Pictures and Target Tumors
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UCSF Mission Bay Opens Child Care Center
A child care center serving more than 80 infants and toddlers opened recently at UCSF Mission Bay.
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University Partnerships Council Names Community Co-Chair
San Francisco native and family advocate Gwen Henry has been named co-chair of the UCSF University-Community Partnerships Council.
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Brittle Prions Found to Be More Infectious
UCSF scientists have discovered why some misfolded shapes of a prion protein are more infectious than others - differences that affect how readily prions can trigger abnormal folding in other proteins.
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Study shows prostate cancer vaccine
A University of California, San Francisco study has found that men with advanced, often untreatable prostate cancer who received a therapeutic cancer vaccine went on to survive longer than those receiving a placebo.
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Parkinson's Disease Genetics Expert Joins Faculty, Receives New Grant
Robert L. Nussbaum, MD, professor of medicine and chief of medical genetics at UCSF, has been awarded one of seven research grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to develop mammalian models of Parkinson's disease, the foundation announced this week.
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Meetings to Address Denton Tragedy
Meetings are planned for tomorrow and July 5 to discuss the recent death of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton, PhD.
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UCSF Duo Receives Howard Hughes Early Career Research Awards
UCSF's Jayanta Debnath, MD, and Scott A. Oakes, MD, have been named recipients of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Physician-Scientist Early Career Award program.
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Progress being made in exploring potential use of stem cells to treat heart disease
Scientists are making headway in exploring the potential future use of stem cells to treat heart disease, according to a review article in the current issue of Nature (June 29, 2006).
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Campus Announces AIDS Walk T-Shirt Design Winner
Judy Liao, an analyst in the Pediatric Palliative Care Program, has been named the winner of the UCSF AIDS Walk T-shirt design contest.
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UCSF establishes Pediatric Brain
Building on its foundation as a leading site for pediatric brain tumor research and care, UCSF has established a Pediatric Brain Tumor Institute devoted to understanding and developing new treatments for childhood brain tumors.
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UCSF Resident Receives Fulbright Award
A UCSF resident in internal medicine has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Scholarship.
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UCSF School of Nursing to Celebrate 100 Years of Nursing Excellence
The roots of the UCSF School of Nursing are 100 years deep, growing out of the spirit of renewal that rebuilt San Francisco after the great earthquake of 1906.
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TB drug could make PTSD treatment quicker, longer lasting, more effective
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center are beginning a study to evaluate effectiveness of a medication that could make treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) quicker and longer-lasting and leave patients less suject to relapse.
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Praise for UCSC's Denton Mixed with Sadness
The apparent suicide of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton, PhD, last Saturday has stunned top University of California leaders, who have termed her passing a personal and professional loss.
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Medical Student Named AMA Foundation Scholar
The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation recently named second-year UCSF medical student Sergio Hernandez a minority scholar.
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UCSF Ophthalmologists Help Characterize Fungal Eye Infections
In a recent report published online in <i>Archives of Ophthalmology</i>, Maria Bernal, MD, a clinical fellow at UCSF's Proctor Foundation, and David Hwang, MD, FACS, professor of clinical ophthalmology and director of the Cornea Service at UCSF, along with colleagues in UCSF's Department of Ophthalmology, provide one of the first reports of an outbreak of soft contact lens-associated corneal infections due to <i>Fusarium</i>, an uncommon type of fungus.
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Pediatric Reunion Draws Bone Marrow Transplant Survivors
More than 100 people, including bone marrow transplant recipients and their families, gathered recently to celebrate life at the first major reunion in more than 20 years.
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After Katrina: UCSF Genetic Counselor Puts Families Back Together
Nicola Stewart got to ring the bell seven times.
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UCSF Exhibit Features Legacy of Robert Arneson
UCSF is exhibiting works by American artist Robert Arneson and nine of his former students at the Kalmanovitz Library through December 16.
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Mr. Clean and the Brawny Man May Not Be Your Best Friends, After All
A recent study gives credence to the idea that the sanitized Western world may be suffering from high rates of asthma, eczema and allergy because human immune systems need to be challenged by disease and dirt.