Archive: Obesity Clues in Humans May Be Unearthed First in a Worm
<p>Obesity research in overweight humans may soon be guided by genetic studies of eating behavior, metabolism and fat storage in the nematode worm, <em>C elegans</em>.</p>
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Archive: Addiction Scientist Receives Presidential Early Career Award
Gallo neuroscientist Linda Wilbrecht, PhD, receives President’s Early Career Award, in recognition of her studies on the effects of drug use and stress on the adolescent brain, aimed at developing strategies to mitigate drug dependence.
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Archive: Like a Wetsuit, but It Can Save a Hemorrhaging Mother
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Archive: Art for AIDS Raises Much Needed Funds for the UCSF AIDS Health Project
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Archive: SF Empower Helps Diabetics with Mental Illness
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Archive: Preventative STD Care for Minors
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Archive: UC Program to Accelerate Translational Research Across State
<p>Imagine a statewide research engine of pooled resources, data, and expertise that accelerates the “translation” of academic research to direct patient benefit. This is the goal of the University of California Biomedical Research Acceleration, Integration, and Development (UC BRAID) program.</p>
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Archive: UCSF to Host Health Care Fraud Prevention Seminar on September 27
<p>Health care practitioners are invited to learn how to prevent fraud committed through medical identity theft during a seminar in UCSF's Cole Hall Auditorium on September 27.</p>
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Archive: QB3 Unwraps 'Startup in a Box'
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Archive: Media Advisory: Swim Across America to Raise Funds for UCSF Child Cancer Care
Olympians and swimming enthusiasts will take part in Swim Across America’s (SAA) sixth annual San Francisco Bay Area Open Water Swim.
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Archive: Skin Doctors Head to Sunnier Pastures
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Archive: Balldude Balestreri on Field with Giants
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Archive: Andy Grove: Rethinking Clinical Trials
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Archive: New Pediatric Website Streamlines Access to Clinical Trials
<p>UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital’s Division of General Pediatrics has developed a large collection of pediatric clinical trials, which are now readily accessible via a new website that features the latest news and information on UCSF’s general clinical trials with children. </p>
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Archive: UCSF Chancellor to Deliver State of University Address on October 4
<p>Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, will share a glimpse of UCSF’s future on Tuesday, Oct. 4 when she delivers the State of the University address.</p>
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Archive: Porsche Race Car Classic
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Archive: 2 from Bay Area Among MacArthur Fellows
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Archive: International Surgeons Learn Life-Changing Procedures from UCSF/SFGH Surgeons
<p>UCSF surgeons at the Institute for Global Orthopaedics & Traumatology hosted a symposium designed to provide hands-on training in trauma care to physicians from around the world.</p>
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Archive: Forbes 400 Biggest Gifts
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Archive: Salesforce's Marc Benioff: Use the Power of Your Company for Philanthropy
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Archive: UCSF School of Nursing Rallies for the Future
<p>For two days, the UCSF School of Nursing faculty and staff pondered its long term future, sketching the beginnings of an ambitious blueprint to guide the nursing program over the next five years.</p>
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Archive: Swimmers Cross Bay to Raise Funds for Cancer Research
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Archive: A Gene for Lou Gehrig's Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia Identified
Frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease -- two fatal neurodegenerative disease with distinct symptoms -- are triggered by a common mutation in many cases, according to researchers who say they have identified the mutated gene.
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Archive: Paralyzed Patient in Major Geron Stem Cell Study
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Archive: Health Reform Expert to Deliver Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture
<p>The UCSF community is invited to hear JudyAnn Bigby talk about "The Massachusetts Health Reform Experience" during the Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture on September 26.</p>
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Archive: Can a Doughnut be a Drug?
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Archive: Whooping Cough Vaccine's Durability Questioned
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Archive: UCSF Neurologist William Seeley Named MacArthur Fellow
<p>UCSF neurologist William Seeley, MD, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow, one of the highest honors bestowed on an individual in the United States.</p>
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Archive: MacArthur Foundation Selects 22 'Geniuses'
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Archive: UCSF Competes Successfully for Young Innovator Awards
<p>Three UCSF researchers have been named among the 2011 recipients of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director's New Innovator Awards, one of the most competitively sought-after sources of research funding made available to young academic scientists through the NIH.</p>