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Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is the nation’s fourth most common cancer in both men and women. Like other forms of cancer, colon cancer has a hereditary component, and individuals who are genetically predisposed to colon cancer have a lifetime risk of at least 80 percent.
The University of California, San Francisco has received a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address the shortage of healthcare workers in Tanzania. The two-year grant will support a strategic collaboration between UCSF Global Health Sciences and the Muhimbili University of Health Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania to develop, implement and document strategies to enable MUHAS and other African institutions to meet their countries’ health workforce needs.
Drug design is never easy, and few drug candidates make it through the development pipeline and into the medicine cabinet. Side effects loom large among potential bugaboos. In the Dec. 14 online edition of the leading scientific journal Nature, a UCSF laboratory research team now reports another unintended consequence of drugs targeted against enzymes, known as kinases, within the body.
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
New UCSF Faculty, January 2009
Starting in January, a UCSF postdoctoral researcher will launch the first-ever study of the effects of prolonged nonuse on human cartilage.
Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center, says he is optimistic that even in this difficult economic environment, “we can achieve our financial goal for this fiscal year.”
Many veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder. Over time, the effects may be physical as well as mental. Beth Cohen, MD, a UCSF researcher and physician at the San Francisco VA Medical Center, is exploring a link between PTSD and heart disease.
The National Institutes of Health is recognizing UCSF’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Graduate Program in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry for its notable record of recruitment and retention of underrepresented students.
The California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG) released its 23rd annual toy safety survey – “Trouble in Toyland” – on Nov. 25, at a press conference in San Jose.
The UCSF School of Dentistry has received the largest grant in its history: $24.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to address socio-economic and cultural disparities in oral health.
University, state and local officials, philanthropists and community leaders will announce a multi-million dollar gift from The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to the Institute for Regeneration Medicine at UCSF.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is donating $25 million to UCSF’s stem cell program, one of the largest and most comprehensive programs of its kind in the United States. The funds will be put toward the construction of a headquarters for the program, which will enable scientists to continue their groundbreaking advances in identifying strategies to treat a wide range of diseases, UCSF announced today.