The Chancellor’s Council on Faculty Life is again sponsoring the UCSF Faculty Leadership Collaborative, a leadership development program that offers faculty members an opportunity to network with colleagues across the University.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on September 30 announced 52 highly competitive awards for high-risk, high-payoff research for young biomedical scientists, and UCSF tops California institutions with four recipients.

UCSF will provide free flu shots to all employees, students and volunteers with UCSF identification at drop-in clinics from Monday, Oct. 4 to Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.

Award-winning scientist David Julius picked up the prestigious Shaw Prize in Hong Kong, where he presented a lecture titled “From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway.”

Sally Rankin, who completed her PhD in nursing in 1988 and joined the faculty, has been named interim dean of the UCSF School of Nursing.

UCSF employees who missed the live webcast of the town hall meeting to discuss the future of UC benefits, can now view the video online.

A particularly aggressive childhood cancer can be fought successfully with far less chemotherapy than previously believed, avoiding harmful side effects caused by cancer drugs.

The UCSF Diabetes Center symposium marks its 10th anniversary.

The UCSF School of Medicine is ranked No. 1 for the percentage of Hispanic graduate students attending the top-ranked medical school, according to Hispanic Business magazine.

Surgical patients with known heart disease risks who are given beta blockers around the time of surgery have a significantly reduced risk of post-operative death compared with patients not given beta blockers, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.