University of California San Francisco
<p>Dramatically positioned at Parnassus Heights, the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building at UCSF is gaining national recognition as a stunning architectural and engineering feat.</p>
<p>U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin talked about her priorities for the nation’s health care, which focus on the impacts of social determinants, such as poverty, and stressed the importance of creating a culture of prevention to improve wellness.</p>
<p>Students say they agree with the recent accreditation report that recognizes UCSF for “exemplary levels of student achievement" and for its “many indicators of a rich learning environment, students learning outcomes and diversity.”</p>
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) has reaffirmed UCSF’s accreditation across all four schools and the Graduate Division, citing UCSF’s capacity to continue achieving its goals for student success into the future.
<p>Patricia Robertson and Tracey Geralds will be honored with the Chancellor’s Award for the Advancement of Women during a ceremony on March 28 in Toland Hall on the UCSF Parnassus campus.</p>
A team of scientists at UCSF has developed a new model for how inherited genes contribute to a common but untreatable and incurable neurodegenerative disease.
<p>The University of California is seeking proposals from its five medical center campuses for the first round of funding from its new <a href="http://universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/uchealth/innovation-center/">Center for Health Quality and Innovation</a>. Proposals are due May 2 for grants ranging from up to $50,000 to up to $250,000 per year.</p>
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital presents “100 Journals,” a performance piece exploring teens’ experiences with chronic illness and hospitalization.
Implanting electrodes into a pea-sized part of the brain can dramatically improve life for people with severe cervical dystonia – a rare but extremely debilitating condition.
<p>As part of UCSF’s ongoing efforts to support the community, the University presented a donation to help fund the construction of a “green” corridor that will transform San Francisco's southeastern waterfront into a go-to destination for recreation.</p>
UCSF has opened an automated hospital pharmacy believed to be the nation’s most comprehensive facility using robotic technology and electronics to prepare and track medications with the goal of improving patient safety.
Images and video from the UCSF Robotic Pharmacy for media use.
<p>Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health program is supporting career development for translational and clinical researchers in a wide variety of disciplines and is launching a new seminar series on March 8.</p>
<p>UCSF Nobel laureate and Chancellor Emeritus J. Michael Bishop will be honored for his national leadership at the Annual Research! America Advocacy Awards on March 15 in Washington, DC. </p>
<p>A team of researchers led by Lalita Ramakrishnan, of the University of Washington, and UCSF's Lynn Connolly has discovered that one of the reasons TB treatments take so long is because the bacteria actively fight back against the antibiotics prescribed. </p>
A new analysis of genetic data from nearly 200 humans whose DNA has been sequenced as part of the 1000 Genomes Project challenges conventional thinking among those who study evolution.