University of California San Francisco
<p>John Plotts, senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration, today issued a message the UCSF community on Operational Excellence, an ongoing initiative to help improve the excellence and efficiency of UCSF's key operational and administrative services while also reducing costs.</p>
<p>The UCSF Academic Senate has announced the 2011 recipients of the Distinction in Teaching and the Distinction in Mentoring Awards. They are: Kenny Banh, Timothy Berger, Mallory Johnson and Jeanette Brown.</p> <ul> <li> </li> </ul>
A multinational study has identified a key gene mutation responsible for type 2 diabetes, a finding that could lead to developing a predictive test for the disease, identifying which current medications work best and driving pharmaceutical research to find new therapies.
<p>UCSF students are getting the help they need to pursue careers inside or outside of academia through the Graduate Student Internships for Career Exploration program, one of the first of its kind in the nation.</p>
Scientists at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute have discovered how a change in growth hormone activity in mice leads to fatty liver disease, a condition whose human counterpart is of rising concern worldwide.
More than 200 young women from 20 San Francisco-area high schools will attend a March 2 summit exploring issues that impact their health and goals -- including how to deal with stress, relationship violence, sexuality and birth control, and how to evolve into future leaders.
Joyce Hammel, a 14-year employee at UCSF, works in the Office of Sexual Harassment Prevention & Resolution, which was established in 1993 to "create a community that free of all forms of harassment, exploitation, or intimidation, including sexual."
UCSF and Zcube have entered into a new agreement to license UCSF-developed microtechnology and support early research into new ways to deliver oral medications directly to a targeted site in the body.
UCSF has received $48 million from the estate of Nina Ireland, a long-time supporter of UCSF, to further the university’s leadership in studying and treating a host of complex pulmonary conditions.