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Funded by a $63,000 gift from the New York-based Li Foundation to the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Chinese scientists from Peking University will study the emerging field of systems biology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
New evidence surfaced Wednesday that a high-tech drug developed in the Bay Area offers significant hope to those afflicted with macular degeneration, a disease that can cause blindness.
David Julius, PhD, a pioneer in research clarifying the molecular basis of the sense of pain and temperature, has been named chair of the Department of Physiology in the UCSF School of Medicine.
Leading scientists from UCSF, UC Berkeley and Stanford will come together at Mission Bay on October 14 to talk about advances in cancer imaging.
The public is invited to join the conversation with the world's leading experts in medicine and the health sciences at UCSF's Mini Medical School for the community, which begins October 24.
This past Saturday night, UCSF's Asian Heart and Vascular Center offered free cardiovascular screenings to the public during the Chinatown Night Fair in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco.
In a press conference at Stanford on Monday, and reported later in the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, one of the scientists who received the Nobel Prize for discovering how RNA can turn genes off credited early experiments by UCSF's Su Guo, PhD, for sparking the research.
After six months of treatment at UCSF Children's Hospital, a teen is feeling better and learning to live with Multiple Sclerosis.
Max Seibold, a son of the soil, left Oklahoma for a UCSF laboratory three years ago. What has happened since says much about the combustive power of science, stubbornness and stamina.
UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) have collaborated with Nikon Instruments Inc. to open the UCSF Nikon Imaging Center at the Mission Bay campus.
The pulse of translational research is quickening throughout UCSF. Among the numerous endeavors under way are several that represent different disease areas and tactics.
UCSF celebrates National Work and Family Month beginning at noon today with a workshop on the benefits of allowing flexible work schedules at Laurel Heights.
In 1999, UCSF broke ground for a new campus in San Francisco. The intent was to alleviate space restrictions on its primary campus, UCSF Parnassus Heights, and allow UCSF, world-renowned for its basic science research, clinical training and patient care, to stretch in ways that would allow it to enhance its performance.
Signaling a watershed moment in the evolution of University of California, San Francisco, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that UCSF has received funding for a major new venture designed to accelerate the pace at which scientific discovery is translated into patient care.
The goal of a new institute at UCSF is to bring better therapies and preventive medicine to more people more quickly.
North Bay-based sticker company Mrs. Grossman's has chosen the Friend to Friend Specialty Shop in UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion as their primary beneficiary of sales from a new pink breast cancer awareness ribbon line being introduced in October to recognize National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The J. David Gladstone Institutes is ranked North America's second "best place to work in academia," according to The Scientist magazine's annual survey, published in its October issue.
A difficult conundrum for the nation's transplant patients was aired September 22 when the news program <i>California Connected </i>featured UCSF's liver transplant program.
Nikon Instruments, UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) announced today the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center to promote education and innovation in microscopy imaging.
Putting on a few extra pounds during pregnancy has been thought to be a normal and healthy part of the gestational process. But what happens when a woman gains too much weight, or too little?
UCSF will be one of the beneficiaries if voters approve Proposition 1D, the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, on the November 7 ballot.
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Barbara and Gerson Bakar were among those attending Tuesday's grand opening of Bloomingdale's at the Westfield San Francisco Centre.
For the first time in UCSF history, first-year students from all four schools learned the importance of teamwork in patient safety.
Sworn testimony by former Enron chief financial officer Andy Fastow, which was made public for the first time today (Sep. 26), coupled with internal documents detailing the scheme, makes it clear that Enron's banks were not innocent bystanders in one of the greatest corporate scandals in our nation's history — but that these financial institutions served as the actual masterminds behind the scheme to defraud investors.
A team led by Bay Area scientists is one of five nationwide to receive a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to refine and standardize the technologies for identifying biomarkers in the blood -- specific proteins, and the patterns they make -- for the early detection of cancer.
For this <i>California Connected </i>news story about long waiting times for liver transplants, producer Jon Dann filmed interviews with UCSF physicians John Roberts, MD and Nathan Bass, MD, PhD; interviews with UCSF patients Eric De Leon and Anthony Montoya; and coverage of the living-donor liver transplant performed on August 31, where baby Brooke received part of a new liver from her mother, Betty.
Volker Doetsch, director of the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Frankfurt's Goethe University, explains how science is flourishing in Germany, thanks to strong government support, particularly for infrastructure and staff. America, take note.