University of California San Francisco
<p>Researchers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital have received a $1.75 million grant from Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation to support the discovery of innovative treatments for childhood cancer.</p>
<p>The University of California, Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford University are collaborating on an educational program aimed at commercializing university research and fostering innovation locally and nationally, thanks to a three-year, $3.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation.</p>
<p>One current and three former UCSF scientists are among 11 named as recipients of a major new award aiming at spurring life sciences innovation that’s sponsored by a Russian Internet entrepreneur and Silicon Valley business leaders, including founders of Facebook and Google.</p>
<p>UC San Francisco is developing a management plan for the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve to keep it a healthy forest, as well as safe and accessible to the community.</p>
<p><span>In the coming months, residents throughout Northern California will hear why UCSF Medical Center is the place to come for the latest, most effective health care.</span></p>
<p>Members of the UCSF community are saddened by the loss of former UCSF web specialist Anthony Taliaferro, who died on Feb. 14, 2013. He was 50.</p>
<p>A team of researchers at UCSF has uncovered the neurological basis of speech motor control, the complex coordinated activity of tiny brain regions that controls our lips, jaw, tongue and larynx as we speak.</p>
<p>A new website aims to guide parents in managing their young child's pain after surgery and give them the framework for how to be more effective caregivers.</p>