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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has renewed support, with major funding, for an ambitious seven-year-old international research consortium that is pioneering novel strategies for studying and testing new drugs.
Six UCSF faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
A team led by UCSF scientists has received a grant of $15 million, provided over five years, to study the complex genetic factors that underlie some of the most common forms of epilepsy.
Learn about perspectives on breakthrough medicines, drug safety and preventing medication errors during a new course in UCSF's Mini Medical School beginning May 8.
Associate Dean Emerita Marilyn Flood will sign copies of her new book about the School of Nursing's first 100 years this afternoon at the UCSF Library.
The campus community can celebrate Cinco de Mayo at the Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses this week.
David Kessler, MD, vice chancellor for medical affairs and dean of the UCSF School of Medicine testified on Tuesday, May 1, before the House Oversight and Investigations Committee hearing on the future of the Food and Drug Administration. Kessler was FDA Commissioner from 1990 to 1997.
UCSF's transplant nurses recently received praise for helping patients, living-donors and their families through the transplantation process.
One of the first major studies of pediatric stroke has revealed that as many as one fifth of children who have had strokes are at risk of a recurrence ...
A treatment for osteoporosis delivered once a year is as effective as current monthly or weekly osteoporosis regimens at reducing the incidence of bone fractures, according to a new study led by a UCSF research team.
David Agard, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF and the founding scientific director of the UCSF-based California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research, was elected today to the National Academy of Sciences.
An Iraqi-American physician will present "The New Iraq: A Humanitarian Disaster," along with other speakers, at a free public symposium at UCSF on May 9.
Katherine Matthay, one of the world's leading doctors and researchers in treatments for childhood cancer, is now an endowed chair in pediatric translational research.
Pearl Toy has been named the recipient of the 2007 International Woman in Transfusion Award.
Should scientists de-emphasize the technical when trying to defend or explain science? The jury is still out on how and whether science should be "framed"...
Chancellor Mike Bishop will present the UCSF Medal, the University's highest honor, to four leaders at a special event on Thursday.
The amount Americans spent on arthritis medications more than doubled between 1998 and 2003, due to the fast-rising number of people with the disease, increases in the number of medications they take each month and the inflation-adjusted cost per prescription...
Wendy Kopp, recipient of the 2007 UCSF Medal, will talk about educational equity at a noontime forum at UCSF on May 3.
Children with special needs are more likely than their healthy peers to receive preventive health care screening and counseling from their physicians, a national study led by researchers at UCSF Children's Hospital has found.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have looked at cystatin C, an alternative measure of kidney function that may have prognostic significance among elderly people who do not meet the standard criteria for chronic kidney disease.
Educators from the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy are working together in novel ways to bring interprofessional experiences to their students' curricula.
Toxins are well-recognized sources of stress on the body and we can be exposed to them in the general environment, at work and at home — perhaps a neglected place when it comes to chemical exposure.
UCSF will honor four individuals with its highest honor – the UCSF Medal – at a special event on Thursday, May 3.
The California Dental Association sponsored a new law that requires children in their first year of public school to get a dental exam before May 31.
UCSF scientists have identified two suspects in the massive die-off of half a million bee colonies in the US. Joe DeRisi, PhD, and Don Ganem, MD, both Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators at UCSF, have used a powerful combination of a "virus chip" — a microarray with DNA samples of most known viruses and fungi — and "shotgun" sequencing, which identifies telltale DNA from random samples of the biological sample.
Now anyone with an internet connection can benefit from the advice of fetal treatment specialists at UCSF Children's Hospital.