Preventing transmission to partners or children is key to this curbing the HIV/AIDS epidemic and researchers report t exciting new tools and tactics employed in the now 30-year war against the disease.

Laurence Huang, MD, a professor of medicine in the HIV/AIDS Division, will give a lecture titled “30 Years of PCP in HIV/AIDS: Past, Present, Future” at San Francisco General Hospital from noon until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7.

In a bold demonstration of support for children fighting cancer, several UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital doctors and staff will have their heads shaved bald at a special event to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer research.

Results of a multicenter Phase 2 clinical trial on a new brain cancer vaccine tailored to a patient’s own tumor show that the vaccine was safe and less toxic than conventional treatments and that it could extend survival for people with recurrent glioblastoma – a deadly type of brain cancer.