University of California San Francisco
Josh Alder, MD, chief medical officer at UCSF Medical Center, said today (Nov. 2) that UCSF Medical Center has received its first shipment of H1N1 vaccine and expects to get more within two weeks.
Open Enrollment begins today (October 29) and continues through November 24, giving faculty and staff an opportunity to make informed choices about their health and welfare plans.
UCSF placed second in the country in The Scientist magazine’s rankings of the “Best Places to Work in Academia.”
The campus community is invited to hear experts talk about the latest developments in cancer prevention during a symposium on November 5 at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
Erik Lium, interim director of the Contracts and Grants Division of the UCSF Office of Sponsored Research, has been named to the position of assistant vice chancellor of research at UCSF.
Two teams of UCSF scientists have received grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance their stem cell based strategies for treating diabetes and brain tumors. The intent of the grants is for teams to file new drug applications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration within four years, driving potential therapies toward clinical trials.
The Problem Resolution Center will bring its drop-in services to the Parnassus campus on November 4, offering a convenient consultation opportunity for those who work, conduct research, study or teach on the flagship campus.
UCSF and the UCSF-affiliated J. David Gladstone Institutes have been named among the top 10 best places to work in U.S. academia, according to 2009 survey results announced today by “The Scientist” magazine. The magazine ranks UCSF as the second best academic work setting and the Gladstone Institutes as sixth.
Philanthropists Irwin and Joan Jacobs of La Jolla, CA are giving a $6.5 million gift to UCSF for head and neck cancer research. It is believed to be the largest private, U.S. gift for research supporting this disease.
Shots to prevent seasonal flu continue to be available this week at no cost to any member of the UCSF community with a UCSF ID badge.
The California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is collaborating with a newly launched $7.5 million fund to provide startup capital for University of California bioscience entrepreneurs and a long-term endowment for QB3.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann says she will focus on four priorities -- patients and health, people, discoveries and business -- to ensure that UCSF can achieve its advancing health worldwide™ mission.
UCSF’s Keith Yamamoto played a key role in the creation of the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk Research Awards, which foster greater innovation and scientific risk-taking. Read the Science Café story.
One UCSF police officer is deceased and a UCSF public safety dispatcher in serious condition at San Francisco General Hospital following an early morning motor vehicle accident while both men were off duty.
The UCSF Chief of Police will hold a media briefing regarding the vehicular death this morning of UCSF Police Officer Edson Veloro, offering comments on Detective Veloro’s outstanding service to UCSF. A limited status report will also be available on the condition of Police Dispatcher Art Dragon, who was also in the accident and was admitted to San Francisco General Hospital early this morning.
UCSF Medical Center has been named the winner of the 2009-2010 “Consumer Choice Award” for hospitals in San Francisco by the National Research Corporation, a major healthcare performance research firm. Local consumers rated UCSF as the number one choice for quality healthcare among all hospitals in San Francisco.
A panel of students from each of UCSF’s four schools and the Graduate Division recently spoke about why they chose UCSF and their hopes and concerns as they pursue careers in the health sciences.
UCSF released today (August 4) answers to frequently asked questions about implementing the UC furlough plan, which was approved by UC Regents on July 16.
UCSF School of Dentistry Professor M. Anthony Pogrel received the 2009 William J. Gies Foundation Award, which recognizes educators for distinguished achievements in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery.
A study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco offers evidence that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder have a significantly lower survival rate one year after surgery than veterans without the diagnosis, even though the veterans with PTSD were seven years younger on average.
Twenty years of screening for breast and prostate cancer – the most diagnosed cancer for women and men – have not brought the anticipated decline in deaths from these diseases, argue experts from the University of California, San Francisco and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in an opinion piece published in the “Journal of the American Medical Association.”
A walking tour of Mount Sutro is scheduled for noon on Saturday, Oct. 24. Those who want to join the tour should meet at the intersection of Johnstone Drive and Behr Avenue.
UCSF will offer a chance for people with colorectal cancer to meet with and learn from experts and fellow patients living with the disease at an event on October 31.