The California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is collaborating with a newly launched $7.5 million fund to provide startup capital for University of California bioscience entrepreneurs and a long-term endowment for QB3.

UCSF’s Keith Yamamoto played a key role in the creation of the National Institutes of Health’s High-Risk Research Awards, which foster greater innovation and scientific risk-taking. Read the Science Café story.

One UCSF police officer is deceased and a UCSF public safety dispatcher in serious condition at San Francisco General Hospital following an early morning motor vehicle accident while both men were off duty.

The UCSF Chief of Police will hold a media briefing regarding the vehicular death this morning of UCSF Police Officer Edson Veloro, offering comments on Detective Veloro’s outstanding service to UCSF. A limited status report will also be available on the condition of Police Dispatcher Art Dragon, who was also in the accident and was admitted to San Francisco General Hospital early this morning.

A panel of students from each of UCSF’s four schools and the Graduate Division recently spoke about why they chose UCSF and their hopes and concerns as they pursue careers in the health sciences.

UCSF Medical Center has been named the winner of the 2009-2010 “Consumer Choice Award” for hospitals in San Francisco by the National Research Corporation, a major healthcare performance research firm. Local consumers rated UCSF as the number one choice for quality healthcare among all hospitals in San Francisco.

UCSF School of Dentistry Professor M. Anthony Pogrel received the 2009 William J. Gies Foundation Award, which recognizes educators for distinguished achievements in the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery.

UCSF released today (August 4) answers to frequently asked questions about implementing the UC furlough plan, which was approved by UC Regents on July 16.