University of California San Francisco
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.
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.
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.
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.
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>.
UC Regents on Thursday declared “an extreme financial emergency for UC” and approved the proposal for furloughs and pay cuts for 108,000 employees.
The California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has joined with the City of San Francisco and FibroGen Inc to launch the QB3 Mission Bay Incubator Network, to spur growth in the bioscience industry.
Two UCSF research papers this week are marking major breakthroughs in the effort to tackle schistosomiasis (bilharzia), a tropical disease that infects more than 200 million people worldwide and causes long-term debilitating illness and occasional paralysis or death.
UC Regents are expected to vote on a plan to cut costs through salary reductions and furloughs for some employees at a meeting tomorrow at UCSF Mission Bay.
The decoding of a parasite genome is helping researchers identify the molecular targets for new drugs in the battle against schistosomiasis.
Supported by a new grant, sports injury specialist Brian Feeley will evaluate three innovative ACL reconstruction techniques, with the goal of improving surgical outcomes for pediatric patients.
Elders who maintained or increased their level of physical activity showed significantly less cognitive decline over seven years than those who were not active or whose activity levels declined during that time, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
Older veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder were almost twice as likely to develop dementia as veterans without PTSD in a study of more than 180,000 veterans led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.
UCSF’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) has recently published its 2009 Research Portfolio, a document summarizing its current research projects and important findings.
UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop, MD, informed the campus community about the recommendations that UC President Mark Yudof will make at the next meeting of the UC Board of Regents at UCSF Mission Bay.
Changes in the length of DNA on the tips of chromosomes from immune cells might be a good gauge of health and aging.
New UCSF Faculty, July 2009