During a recent lecture at UCSF, outspoken public health activist Sidney Wolfe, MD, recounted his 40-plus years as a thorn in the side of the pharmaceutical industry and federal drug regulators.

Microbiologist Francoise Perdreau-Remington, PhD, has received France’s highest civilian award for her work in identifying, mapping and tracking drug-resistant staph infections.

An innovative mentoring program at the UCSF-Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology Center for AIDS Research is providing vital support for the development of the next generation of HIV/AIDS researchers and clinician scientists.

Joseph DeRisi, inventor of the ViroChip, a microarray that is used to detect every known virus and helps researchers identify and describe unknown viruses, will receive the Eli Lilly and Company Research Award from the American Society for Microbiology in May.

Ongoing research by UCSF doctors refutes conventional wisdom and offers good news to many HIV-infected patients at risk of organ failure.

UCSF Student Health Services and the Center for Gender Equity, among several departments, are co-sponsoring Body Image Awareness Week from Feb. 23 to Feb. 27.

The new Orthopaedic Trauma Institute at San Francisco General Hospital will allow UCSF physicians and surgeons to continue providing world-class treatment, but in a space that allows for greater interaction and collaboration among doctors, researchers and support staff.

The state budget adopted by the Legislature and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for the rest of 2008-09 and the 2009-10 fiscal year contains $115 million in new permanent funding reductions for the University of California system and, by virtue of other growing costs not addressed in the budget, extends the university's total immediate state budget challenge to $450 million.

A drug prescribed for male and female infertility and menstrual disorders could hold the key to a more effective treatment for alcoholism, according to a study by researchers at the UCSF-affiliated Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center.

An additional $10 billion for the NIH under the economic stimulus package could breathe new life into stalled UCSF projects in areas such as stem cell research and brain function, researchers say.