University of California San Francisco
<p>Faculty, staff and students will be invited to participate in a bi-annual customer survey starting on September 17 to provide feedback on the services provided by UCSF's Financial and Administrative Services.</p>
<p>Two UCSF trailblazers are featured in a new interview series by <em>The Journal of Clinical Investigation</em> called "Conversations with Giants in Medicine."</p>
<p>A good job in health care was the key to a better life for Shameka Jones, but the path to getting one hasn’t been easy.</p>
A protein called “clathrin,” which is found in every human cell and plays a critical role in transporting materials within them, also plays a key role in cell division, according to new research at the University of California, San Francisco.
<p>September is a busy month at UCSF, as the campus community comes together for the new school year.</p>
<p>Neurosurgeon Mitch Berger will be among UCSF physicians and scientists appearing September 20 at Dreamforce 2012 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, leading separate sessions that address one theme: “Innovating to Improve Health Outcomes.”</p>
<p>UCSF’s Pre-Health Undergraduate Program offers undergraduate college students from the Bay Area and around the country a valuable combination of mentorship, classroom training and networking support with the goal of attracting them to careers in clinical and translational science.</p>
<p>Pharmaceutical companies now have a guide — the UCSF-FDA TransPortal — to pre-clinical studies they should conduct to identify potentially harmful interactions between existing and new drugs that depend on how the drugs move into and out of cells through protein portals known as transporters.</p>