University of California San Francisco
Examining venom from a variety of poisonous snakes, a group of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has discovered why the bite of one small black, yellow and red serpent called the Texas coral snake can be so painful.
<p>The campus community is invited to a fashion show on November 16 featuring redesigned patient gowns as envisioned by young patients at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.</p>
President Obama has named the Science and Health Education Partnership High School Internship Program at UCSF as one of the 2011 recipients of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, the White House announced today.
The American Heart Association will today present Gladstone Institutes Senior Investigator and President Emeritus Robert Mahley, MD, PhD, with the 2011 AHA Distinguished Scientist Award, bestowing yet another honor on one of Gladstone’s founding cardiovascular scientists.
<p>UCSF, the Oakland Unified School District and an array of community-based partners are embarking on a quest to improve the lives of disadvantaged middle-school students, thanks to a $1.75 million grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies.</p>
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is holding its 2nd annual Art Day featuring a red carpet fashion show featuring hospital gowns completely redesigned by young hospital patients, some of whom will be on hand to talk with news media about their work.
UCSF’s Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center is holding “Taste for the Cure: A Taste of Science,’’ a day for exploring the impact that food and science have on breast health.
<p>The UC Regents meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday this week has been cancelled due to safety concerns, according to UC officials.</p>
UCSF oncologist Pamela Munster, MD, and her colleagues have discovered the molecular basis for tamoxifen resistance in women with breast cancer and found a potential way to defeat it by administering a second class of drugs.
<p>UCSF scientists <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=4829993" target="_blank">Anatol Kreitzer</a>, PhD, and <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=5506943" target="_blank">Loren Frank</a>, PhD, have won and will share the prestigious 2011 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience. </p>