A team of specialists at UCSF Medical Center has treated its first patients as part of a multi-center clinical study to evaluate an incision-free procedure for the treatment of obesity.

A seven-member stimulus response team will work to identify and coordinate UCSF’s funding needs and strengthen grant applications to position UCSF as an ideal recipient of NIH economic stimulus funds.

A study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has shown that hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a predictor of mortality among breast cancer patients, especially those who are African-American, and that hypertension accounts for approximately 30 percent of the survival disparity between African-American and white breast cancer patients.

Steven Woolf will deliver a plenary lecture, titled “The Meaning of Translational Research and Why It Matters,” at a March 13 symposium at UCSF.

UCSF researchers have found that examining levels of antiretroviral drugs in hair samples taken from HIV patients on therapy strongly predicts treatment success.

Nearly 100 lesbian and gay scientists recently heard a distinguished panel address the groundbreaking subject of being “out” in science at UCSF Mission Bay.

Staff and supervisors are invited to information sessions about the UCSF Turnaround Mentorship Program. Deadline to apply is March 18.

New UCSF Faculty, March 2009

A new generation of cancer drugs designed to starve tumors of their blood supply – called “angiogenesis inhibitors” -- succeeds at first, but then promotes more invasive cancer growth -- sometimes with a higher incidence of metastases, according to a new study in animals. The research clarifies similar findings in other animal studies and is consistent with some early evidence from a small number of clinical trials with cancer patients.