Archive: UCSF Receives $1 Million to Support Amgen Scholars Program
Funding from the Amgen Foundation will enable undergraduates to gain critical hands-on experience with UCSF faculty members to help advance the next generation of scientists.
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Archive: Spotlight: Sarah Paris
<p>Sarah Paris is the director of communications for the UCSF School of Medicine, the largest school at the University.</p>
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Archive: Spotlight: Dan Henroid
Dan Henroid directs Nutrition and Food Services at UCSF Medical Center, which provides more than 3 million meals annually.
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Archive: Preserving Oral Health for a Lifetime
Susan Hyde, an award-winning professor and scientist with the UCSF School of Dentistry, promotes practices that preserve oral health and quality of life for both patients and practitioners.
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Archive: Parkinson's Disease Discoveries Lead to Major Neuroscience Prize for Nussbaum
Parkinson’s disease researcher Robert Nussbaum, a human geneticist and neuroscientist at UCSF, has been named to receive the prestigious Klaus Joachim Zülch Neuroscience Prize for 2011.
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Archive: UC Issues Statement on Executive Pension Benefits
Following recent media reports about a letter by 36 University of California executives regarding pension benefits, UC Board of Regents Chairman Russell Gould and University President Mark Yudof issued a statement on January 4. The statement is <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/24746">posted on the UC website</a>.
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Archive: GENETICALLY SET FOR PERFECT PITCH YOU MIGHT BE, BUT WITHOUT EARLY TRAINING DON'T EXPECT TO DISCERN C
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Archive: Visiting the Dentist Chair of the Future
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Archive: Student Photography Exhibit Displays Unique Worldview
The campus community is invited to view 30 photographs on display on January 6 at the Faculty Alumni House and vote on the top three.
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Archive: The Events of 2010 That Shaped UC and Beyond
Several milestones shaped 2010 for the University of California, many of which happened right on the UCSF campus.
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Archive: First Faculty Prize Winners Drawn for the 2010 UCSF Charitable Giving Campaign
The first faculty prize winners were drawn for the 2010 UCSF Charitable Giving Campaign, themed “The Heart of UCSF.”
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Archive: National Medical Education Summit Marks Banner Year for UCSF LGBT Center
It was a breakthrough year for UCSF’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center, long the nation’s only LGBT office in a health care or health education setting.
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Archive: UCSF Migraine Expertise Profiled in SF Chronicle
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Archive: SF Examiner Highlights Dermatology Telemedicine
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Archive: 2010 Year in Review
This past year UCSF has furthered its mission of advancing health worldwide from the groundbreaking of a medical center at Mission Bay, and continuing to make major medical advances through scientific breakthroughs, leading patient care and innovative campus expansions.
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Archive: Study on IVF Costs Covered by Reuters, Fox News
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Archive: New Imaging Advance Illuminates Immune Response in Breathing Lung
In a recent UCSF-led study in mice, researchers developed a method to stabilize living lung tissue for imaging without disrupting the normal function of the organ. The method allowed the team to observe, for the first time, both the live interaction of living cells in the context of their environment and the unfolding of events in the immune response to lung injury.
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Archive: 10 Heart Healthy Tips from the UCSF Center for Prevention of Heart & Vascular Disease
’Tis the season for temptations, with holiday dinners and treats nearly everywhere we turn. So stick a fork into these 10 tips from the UCSF Center for Prevention of Heart and Vascular Disease.
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Archive: UCSF Challenge for the Children highly successful, breaks $1 million
The UCSF Challenge for the Children, a social media-based fundraising contest that won the support of prominent Silicon Valley companies, tech industry executives and other celebrities, concluded yesterday (Dec. 16, 2010), raising more than $1 million for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
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Archive: Challenge for the Children Raises More than $1 Million
Surpassing fundraising expectations ten-fold, thanks, in part to 12-year-old Paddy O’Brien, the Challenge for Children concluded December 16, generating more than $1 million for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay.
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Archive: UCSF Campus Shuttle Bus Rear-Ended In Traffic Collision
A UCSF shuttle bus stopped at a red light near San Francisco General Hospital was rear-ended this morning in a chain-reaction traffic collision, said the San Francisco Police Department.
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Archive: New test can predict complications from kidney disease
Cystatin C, a blood marker of kidney function, proved significantly more accurate than the standard blood marker, creatinine, in predicting serious complications of kidney disease, in a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF Launches Operational Excellence Website
UCSF’s ongoing program called “Operational Excellence” has a new website to help faculty and staff better understand efforts to reorganize campuswide services and achieve both administrative excellence and financial savings.
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Archive: UCSF team finds new source of immune cells during pregnancy
UCSF researchers have shown for the first time that the human fetal immune system arises from an entirely different source than the adult immune system, and is more likely to tolerate than fight foreign substances in its environment.
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Archive: In Brain Cancer, Unique Genetic and "Epigenetic" Profile Means Better Odds
Brain cancers are deadly more often than not, but UCSF researchers have determined that a particular genetic signature in is associated with longer survival, a discovery that may lead to better therapies for some of the deadliest brain cancers.
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Archive: Chemicals in Environment Deserve Study for Possible Role in Fat Gain, Says Byers Award Recipient
Weight gain and environmental pollutants might be linked, an award-winning worm researcher suggests.
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Archive: Study Links Increased BPA Exposure to Reduced Egg Quality in Women
A small-scale University of California, San Francisco-led study has identified the first evidence in humans that exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may compromise the quality of a woman’s eggs retrieved for in vitro fertilization (IVF).
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Archive: Reuters Story Features UCSF Women's Health Study
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center chief named most-admired CEO
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Archive: Regents Approve Changes to UC's Retiree Health and Pension Programs
The University of California Board of Regents voted at a special meeting on Dec. 13 to change some of UC’s retiree health and pension programs. <a href="http://universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/ucrpfuture/news-updates/regents-approve-changes-to-uc%E2%80%99s-retiree-health-and-pension-programs">Read the story on the UC website</a>.