Campus Works to Address Implementation of Furlough Plan
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Eugene Washington on July 30 issued a message to the campus community about how the campus is planning to implement the UC-wide furlough plan.

University of California San Francisco
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Eugene Washington on July 30 issued a message to the campus community about how the campus is planning to implement the UC-wide furlough plan.
The Graduate Division’s Postdoctoral Scholar Research Award aims to help UCSF postdocs pursue original ideas and launch their careers.
UCSF Children's Hospital will celebrate children and their families at the 14th annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic.
UCSF researchers have identified a new potential drug target for the herpes virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, re-opening the possibility of using the class of drugs called protease inhibitors against the full herpes family of viruses, which for 20 years has been deemed too difficult to attain.
Seven students who devoted the past year to understanding and improving global health have become the country’s first to obtain a master of science degree in the field.
Medical center employees and non-physician, clinically related employees at the UCSF School of Medicine and UCSF School of Dentistry will not be furloughed or have their pay decreased, according to Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today (July 28, 2009) approved a resolution that allows for the operation of a helipad at the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, a state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients scheduled to open in 2014. The resolution passed unanimously, by a vote of 11 to 0.
June Chan, who specializes in the study of nutritional and hormonal risk factors for prostate cancer, has been named the Steven and Christine-Burd Safeway Endowed Chair.
Health care experts at the University of California, San Francisco highlight in a new report the hidden risks and complexities that compromise patient safety for ambulatory patients with chronic disease.
Regulatory T cells prevent our immune systems from attacking our own tissues. However, these cells can turn against us if they lose a molecule called FoxP3.
Chancellor Mike Bishop testified before the UC Board of Regents on July 15 on the impact of the current budget situation at UCSF.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will vote next Tuesday on UCSF’s proposal for a rooftop helipad so that helicopters can quickly transport critically ill patients to UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.
The UCSF School of Pharmacy has launched a Medication Management Service in Fresno to address the urgent need among California Central Valley residents and their health care providers for assistance in managing their prescriptions.
Ophir Klein, an assistant professor of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics in the UCSF School of Dentistry, has been named director of the UCSF Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology.
UCSF is accepting abstracts focusing on health disparities research that could be selected for presentation at the health disparities research symposium slated for October 23.
Short inhibitory RNAs, or siRNAs, can be made to inactivate almost any gene. This may allow even modest-sized university labs to develop new drugs.
Members of the campus community joined with 25,000 other people to raise more than $3.5 million in the 23rd annual San Francisco AIDS Walk on Sunday.
Dental public health expert Jane Weintraub will receive the Faculty Research Award at the School of Dentistry’s annual Research and Clinical Excellence Day on Oct. 8.
UCSF Medical Center ranks among the nation’s top 10 premier hospitals and is the best in the Bay Area, according to the new 2009-10 America’s Best Hospitals survey conducted by <i>U.S. News & World Report</i>.
Members of the campus community should register their private contact information to get timely warnings about emergencies, since the campus telephone system will likely be overloaded or could be damaged during a crisis, UCSF police say.
Among 289,328 veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan who used the Department of Veterans Affairs medical system for the first time between April 1, 2002 and April 1, 2008, 37 percent received a diagnosis of a mental health problem, according to a study of national VA data conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.