UCSF Nobel laureate and Chancellor Emeritus J. Michael Bishop will be honored for his national leadership at the Annual Research! America Advocacy Awards on March 15 in Washington, DC. 

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health program is supporting career development for translational and clinical researchers in a wide variety of disciplines  and is launching a new seminar series on March 8.

A team of researchers led by Lalita Ramakrishnan, of the University of Washington, and UCSF's Lynn Connolly has discovered that one of the reasons TB treatments take so long is because the bacteria actively fight back against the antibiotics prescribed. 

A new analysis of genetic data from nearly 200 humans whose DNA has been sequenced as part of the 1000 Genomes Project challenges conventional thinking among those who study evolution.

John Plotts, senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration, today issued a message the UCSF community on Operational Excellence, an ongoing initiative to help improve the excellence and efficiency of UCSF's key operational and administrative services while also reducing costs.

The UCSF Academic Senate has announced the 2011 recipients of the Distinction in Teaching and the Distinction in Mentoring Awards. They are: Kenny Banh, Timothy Berger, Mallory Johnson and Jeanette Brown.

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