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UCSF Professor of Physiology Michael Stryker has been named to the advisory board of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, a medical research organization dedicated to brain research.
UCSF will celebrate 10 years of offering the free Chancellor's Concert Series this fall.
As a geneticist, Jane Gitschier, PhD, is interested in teasing out the relative contributions of genes and environment on behavior. For more than a decade, she and former UCSF colleague Nelson Freimer, PhD, now at UCLA, have been exploring this question by studying the capacity that some people have for "perfect pitch," the ability to instantly and precisely identify a musical note.
Fourth-year UCSF medical student Brian "Yoshi" Laing has been named a 2007 Pisacano Scholar.
Strokes are the third most common killer of adults in the United States, but they're unusual in children. In fact, pediatricians and family physicians—and parents—often don't consider strokes, even when children show symptoms that would cause instant alarm in adults. For decades, there was a notable lack of research in pediatric stroke.
UCSF will work to improve its educational facilities, expand interprofessional education and enhance diversity — all recommended in the UCSF Strategic Plan — as part of its efforts toward WASC accreditation.
Twenty high school seniors recently participated in the Science and Health Education Partnership High School Summer Internship Program.
UCSF Children's Hospital is one of the best children's hospitals in the nation, according to a new survey announced Friday, Aug. 24, by "US News & World Report." The magazine ranks UCSF Children's Hospital 16th in the nation.
The UCSF Academic Senate recently announced the selection of Leslie Z. Benet, as recipient of the Seventh Annual Distinguished Clinical Research Lectureship.
The first scientist to report on a new method for "reprogramming" skin cells from mice into embryonic-like cells that can differentiate into other types of cells has joined the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease.
Proceeds from pledges collected by the swimmers, as well as online donations, in Swim Across America on September 30 will benefit cancer care at UCSF Children's Hospital.
G. Richard O'Connor, former director of the Francis I. Proctor Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology at UCSF, died on Aug. 9, 2007.
Neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, MD, director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic and author of <i>The Female Brain</i>, appears on the KPBS radio show <i>These Days</i> to discuss the differences between the male and female brain.
UCSF Mission Bay will soon welcome new eateries to the retail hub around the housing complex.
Upper trunk fat –– deposits of fat on the chest and back –– is associated with an increased risk of insulin resistance, a condition that is a precursor of type 2 diabetes, according to a study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC).
For a report on a National Cancer Institute study showing a significant drop in breast cancer rates in women who had stopped postmenopausal hormone therapy, KGO-TV interviews Karla Kerlikowske, MD, lead author of the study.
UC will offer a revised online sexual harassment prevention training program to all supervisory employees the week of September 10.
Stanton Glantz, a widely respected scientist and advocate of tobacco control, is the first recipient of the American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professorship in Tobacco Control at UCSF.
Despite years of effort in reaching out to their local communities, the role pharmacists play as health care providers still remains unclear to the people who need them the most – elderly Americans with multiple medications for chronic diseases.