University of California San Francisco
<p>UCSF's Resource Allocation Program (RAP), which incorporates a single online application for 30 different research grants, is now requesting applications for the Fall 2012 Cycle.</p>
Kaspar Mossman works as communications director at QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences headquarters at UCSF Mission Bay.
<p><span>The UCSF Office of Research is launching a $2 million equipment award program for technology proposals that expand and improve access to core research facilities.</span></p>
<p>It’s become common practice for the roughly 6 million Americans per year who go to emergency rooms with chest pain: Get a stress test or cardiac CT (computed tomography) scan before discharge.</p>
<p><span>Continuing a partnership that began in 2009, King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre in London and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) are working together on joint opportunities for collaboration in areas such as student and faculty exchange, online education and training, curriculum development, cooperative research and open data exchange.</span></p>
John B. Ford, a longtime leader in fundraising for top universities, has been named Vice Chancellor, University Development and Alumni Relations at UCSF.
<p><span>Research has shown that women are at greater risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than men. Now, scientists based at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) have found that women with the condition might be more likely to experience faster aging at the cellular level and increased risk for diseases of aging than men with PTSD.</span></p>
<p>Two years after launching as a pilot effort, an innovative graduate curriculum in translational medicine jointly offered by <abbr title="University of California, San Francisco">UCSF</abbr> and <abbr title="University of California">UC</abbr> Berkeley has received final approval from University of California President Mark Yudof as a master’s degree program.</p>
<p>Colin Boyle, MBA, has been appointed the first Deputy Director of UCSF Global Health Sciences.</p>
A novel virus has been identified as the possible cause of a common but mysterious disease that kills a significant number of pet snakes all over the world, thanks to research led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)—and three snakes named Juliet, Balthazar and Larry.
