University of California San Francisco
<p>In the first 24 hours after announcing UCSF’s first online classes through the website Coursera, more than 2,500 students signed up for those first three, free classes, signaling what could be a significant expansion in UCSF’s ability to reach a wide audience with its health science courses.</p>
<p>UCSF is investigating an incident involving a noose found hanging from a box in a storeroom on the Parnassus campus.</p>
On the eve of AIDS 2012, the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, UCSF has launched the blog UCSF AIDS 2012, to cover the news as it unfolds in the days leading up to and during the meeting and to offer daily expert analysis and insight along the way.
<p>The year 1982 was pivotal for Paul Volberding, MD. In the early days of the AIDS crisis, he was a talented research fellow who was getting ready to help launch San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center’s Ward 86, which would become the world’s first HIV/AIDS outpatient clinic. It opened its doors the following year.</p>
<p>UCSF will form a dedicated advisory board to help ensure that the University continues to excel as a health sciences innovator and deliver on its critically important public mission, Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, told the UC Regents on July 18.</p>
<p>UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will feature expansive gardens and green space, providing patients and their families with a powerful respite that promotes healing in conjunction with UCSF’s world-class medical care.</p>
UCSF researchers triggered cellular transformation — and caused tumors to form in mice — by activating just two genes, a discovery that suggests drugs that are able to target those genes may provide a way to treat the deadly cancer, known as cholangiocarcinoma.
Lennart Mucke, MD, a professor of neurology and the Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience at UCSF who directs neurological research at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes, has received the Khalid Iqbal Lifetime Achievement Award for his exceptional contributions to Alzheimer’s disease research.