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Archive: Parkinson's Disease Protein Impedes Nerve Signaling Long Before Brain Cells Die
Synuclein is a protein that can cause Parkinson’s disease, although it is not clear how. UCSF researcher Robert Edwards, MD, now has discovered that synuclein can affect signal transmission between nerve cells long before disease symptoms arise.
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Archive: Young-Wook Jun joins Otolaryngology Department
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
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Archive: UCSF Offers Fifth Year of Faculty Leadership Collaborative
The Chancellor’s Council on Faculty Life is again sponsoring the UCSF Faculty Leadership Collaborative, a leadership development program that offers faculty members an opportunity to network with colleagues across the University.
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Archive: UCSF Makes Flu Shots Available to Campus Community
UCSF will provide free flu shots to all employees, students and volunteers with UCSF identification at drop-in clinics from Monday, Oct. 4 to Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.
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Archive: UCSF Tops California Universities with Four NIH Director's New Innovator Awards
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on September 30 announced 52 highly competitive awards for high-risk, high-payoff research for young biomedical scientists, and UCSF tops California institutions with four recipients.
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Archive: Julius Accepts Shaw Prize, Presents his Discoveries in Hong Kong
Award-winning scientist David Julius picked up the prestigious Shaw Prize in Hong Kong, where he presented a lecture titled “From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway.”
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Archive: Less chemotherapy works well for some childhood cancer
A particularly aggressive childhood cancer can be fought successfully with far less chemotherapy than previously believed, avoiding harmful side effects caused by cancer drugs.
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Archive: UCSF Names Rankin Interim Dean of Nursing School
Sally Rankin, who completed her PhD in nursing in 1988 and joined the faculty, has been named interim dean of the UCSF School of Nursing.
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Archive: UC Benefits Town Hall Meeting Posted on the Web
UCSF employees who missed the live webcast of the town hall meeting to discuss the future of UC benefits, can now view the video online.
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Archive: UCSF graduate programs receive top rankings in national survey
UCSF research-doctorate programs have ranked among the nation’s best in a survey released today by the National Research Council (NRC).
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Archive: Diabetes Center Celebrates 10 Years of Success, Charts Future Course
The UCSF Diabetes Center symposium marks its 10th anniversary.
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Archive: UCSF Ranks No. 1 in Medical Education Diversity by Hispanic Business Magazine
The UCSF School of Medicine is ranked No. 1 for the percentage of Hispanic graduate students attending the top-ranked medical school, according to <cite>Hispanic Business</cite> magazine.
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Archive: Beta blockers reduce risk of death after surgery, study finds
Surgical patients with known heart disease risks who are given beta blockers around the time of surgery have a significantly reduced risk of post-operative death compared with patients not given beta blockers, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
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Archive: UCSF Research Team Wins Grant to Detect Deadly Viruses
Researchers at UCSF have been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid, pan-viral microarray diagnostic for detecting viruses of extreme outbreak and pandemic potential.
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Archive: Justice Department Declines UC stem Cell Motion
The U.S. Department of Justice declined to consent to the University of California’s motion to intervene in Sherley v. Sebelius, the case regarding federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, on which UC had made a motion to the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals on Sept. 20.
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Archive: Aspirin for severe headache study makes national news
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Archive: PBS NewsHour features UCSF efforts in translational medicine
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Archive: Ferrera's Lasker Award-Winning Research Began at UCSF
Genentech scientist Napoleone Ferrara, who has just been named the winner of a Lasker Award, is being recognized for his noteworthy achievements made when he was a postdoc at UCSF.
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Archive: UCSF Medical Center & Renown Institute for Cancer in Reno join forces to enhance local patient care
Renown Institute for Cancer in Reno and the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, the two leading cancer programs in their regions, have joined forces to enhance patient care and improve access to top level medical experts.
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Archive: UCSF diabetes symposium marks decade of research advances
Diabetes research is on the cusp of new advances in treatment options and in understanding the underlying causes of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Among those are potential treatments using stem cells to regenerate a patient’s ability to produce insulin, as well as upcoming clinical trials of a vaccine that potentially could prevent type 1 diabetes.
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Archive: Physical limitations take a significant toll in breast cancer survivors
Basic physical limitations following breast cancer treatment can have far-reaching consequences that substantially affect how long a patient lives.
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Archive: NBC hosts UCSF oncologist on economy's effect on patients
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Archive: Diabetes Center Celebrates 10 Years of Research and Care
The UCSF Diabetes Center will celebrate a decade of advancing translational research in diabetes on Friday, with a scientific symposium featuring the nation’s leaders in diabetes research and care.
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Archive: UCSF to showcase advances in diabetes research and care
The UCSF Diabetes Center will celebrate a decade of advancing research and patient care in diabetes with a scientific symposium featuring the nation’s leaders in the field.
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Archive: UCSF Police Host Safety Fair Today and Oct. 13
The UCSF community is invited to learn tips for safety and security at safety fairs scheduled for today and October 13.
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Archive: AIDS Health Project Hosts Benefit Art Auction on September 24
The UCSF community is invited to “Art for AIDS,” a benefit featuring the cast of <cite>Dreamgirls</cite>, who will perform songs from that Tony Award-winning musical on September 24.
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Archive: Preserving Fertility of Women with Cancer Is Often Neglected
Cancer and infertility can be a double blow. Many women become infertile following cancer treatment. And because more women are living longer thanks to modern chemotherapy and radiation treatment, more are later discovering that they cannot bear children.
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Archive: NYT features UCSF/VA study on heart attack risk tools
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Archive: UCSF receives $15.4 million to create systems biology center
Cell biologists at UCSF have received $15.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to set up one of two new National Centers for Systems Biology, to study how cells respond to their environment – an emerging field of research that could revolutionize medicine by creating “smart cells” to deliver medications and other therapeutics more effectively.