• UCSF News
• October 7, 2011

Experts Discuss Personalized Medicine and Gene Discoveries in Disease at Genetics Symposium

<p>Personalized medicine and new gene discoveries in human disease were a focus of a daylong symposium hosted by the UCSF Institute for Human Genetics on the Mission Bay campus on Oct. 3.</p>

• UCSF News
• October 7, 2011

Chancellor Shares Vision for UCSF to Become World's Preeminent Health Sciences Innovator

<p>In her third year as Chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, unveiled an action plan for UCSF that builds on its meritorious mission of <em>advancing health worldwide</em>.</p>

• October 7, 2011

UCSF MRI Technology Center Gets $5 Million NIH Grant to Develop Powerful New Imaging System

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has been awarded $5.5 million by the National Institutes of Health to advance new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology that may offer doctors the chance to rapidly create scans of tumors and other diseased tissue that are far more detailed than any method now being used.

• October 7, 2011

Dr. Q, Former UCSF Medical Resident, Returns to Campus on October 10

<p>Former UCSF medical resident and stem cell researcher Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, will return to the University to speak about his time at UCSF on October 10 as part of the University's celebration of diversity.</p>

• October 6, 2011

$6.3 Million Center at UCSF and UC Davis Seeks Ways to Diagnose and Prevent Osteoarthritis

How people walk, jump and run and how their knees look in an MRI scanner may hold the secret to predicting years or even decades in advance whether they will develop osteoarthritis, the common degenerative joint disease that strikes half of all Americans by the time they reach the age of 70.

• October 5, 2011

Longer Trips to the ER, Especially for Minorities and Poor

<p><span class="Apple-style-span">Closures of hospital trauma centers are disproportionately affecting poor, uninsured and African American populations, and nearly a fourth of Americans are now forced to travel farther than they once did.</span><span class="Apple-style-span">&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span>&nbsp;</span></span></p>

• October 5, 2011

Symposium to Feature Health Care Disparities Research on October 7

<p>The campus community is invited to UCSF's fifth annual Health Disparities Research Symposium on Friday, Oct. 7.&nbsp;</p>

• UCSF News
• October 4, 2011

Chancellor's State of the University Address Transcript

<p>This is the transcript of UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann's State of the University address on Oct. 4, 2011.</p>

• October 4, 2011

Daughter's Hospitalization Renews Architect's Commitment to New UCSF Medical Center

<p>Herb Moussa, an architect working on construction of the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, credits UCSF with saving the life of his youngest daughter, Sarah.</p>

• UCSF News
• October 4, 2011

Chancellor Outlines Three-Year Plan for UCSF

<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann on Tuesday outlined a new vision for UCSF —&nbsp;to be the world's preeminent health sciences innovator —&nbsp;as part of a three-year plan.</p>

• October 4, 2011

UCSF Dermatologists Pen Book to Promote Education of Rare Disorders That Cause Hair Loss

<p>UCSF dermatologist Vera Price and her former fellow, Paradi Mirmirani wrote a book to help residents better understand and treat Cicatricial alopecia, a group of rare disorders that cause permanent hair loss.</p>

• October 4, 2011

Pursuit of Health Care Quality Standards May Harm the Elderly

Gauging the quality of patient care through measurements currently used by insurers and health care systems may be harming older patients, according to Sei Lee, MD, MAS, a geriatrician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.

• October 4, 2011

SF Mayoral Candidates Face Off at UCSF Mission Bay

• October 3, 2011

Asthma Treatment May Be Headed Toward Personalized Medicine

<p>Asthma patients could clearly benefit from personalized medicine, a new study suggests. However, the new discovery of a key gene, while exciting, does not mean that day is here quite yet.</p>

• UCSF News
• October 3, 2011

UCSF Students Pack Classroom to Learn About Health Care Reform

<p>A year after the passage of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, students at UCSF are showing up in large numbers to learn about the landmark legislation thanks to a student-coordinated elective that brought the topic into the classroom two years before they were scheduled to learn about it.</p>

• October 3, 2011

UCSF Symposium Showcases New Technologies to Accelerate Drug Development

<p>UCSF's new Center for Quantitative Pharmacology recently held its first symposium, bringing together scientists from academia and industry. Kathy Giacomini, co-chair of the new center and the symposium, answered questions about the burgeoning field of quantitative pharmacology&nbsp;in a recent interview.&nbsp;</p>

• October 3, 2011

UCSF's Diversity Celebration Kicks Off October 3

<p>The UCSF community is invited to celebrate the many forms of diversity of people during a celebration that begins October 3 with the annual art show and ends on November 15 with a photo exhibition.</p>

• September 30, 2011

Statement from UCSF Police Department on Overnight Arrest

Last night, UCSF police spotted and arrested Ernesto Gonzales, who was wanted in connection with the murder last week of the President of the San Jose Chapter of the Hells Angels in Sparks, Nevada.

• September 30, 2011

Making Progress in the Battle Against Breast Cancer

Breast cancer, a woman’s most feared disease, is the second most frequently treated cancer at UCSF. October -- breast cancer awareness month – is an opportune time to take stock of recent progress at UCSF, home to one of the nation’s preeminent cancer centers.

• September 30, 2011

Protein Scientist Receives National Institutes of Health Early Investigator Award

James Fraser, PhD, a protein researcher who studies structural biology at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is one of 10 recipients of a prestigious award for young scientists given for the first time by the National Institutes of Health.

• September 30, 2011

San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Forum

The San Francisco League of Women Voters, in partnership with UCSF, brings together the key 2011 San Francisco mayoral candidates to answer your questions about their plans if elected mayor of San Francisco.