Changes in the length of DNA on the tips of chromosomes from immune cells might be a good gauge of health and aging.

UCSF Chancellor Mike Bishop, MD, informed the campus community about the recommendations that UC President Mark Yudof will make at the next meeting of the UC Board of Regents at UCSF Mission Bay.

UCSF’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) has recently published its 2009 Research Portfolio, a document summarizing its current research projects and important findings.

Members of the campus community who have not yet signed up to participate in AIDS Walk San Francisco have only a few days left to make a difference in the epidemic.

New UCSF Faculty, July 2009

Eric Goosby, the new US Global AIDS coordinator, says he will work to promote education and prevention, build international partnerships and encourage country-driven efforts to fight the AIDS epidemic.

Kimberly S. Topp has been named the chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science in the UCSF School of Medicine.

More than 400 new additions to UCSF’s clinical and research enterprise arrived on campus June 30 to start the next phase of their medical careers.

Scientists have identified a gene that is essential for embryonic stem cells to maintain their all-purpose, pluripotent state. Exploiting the finding may lead to a greater understanding of how cells acquire their specialized states and provide a strategy to efficientlyreprogram mature cells back into the pluripotent state, an elusive step in stem cell research but one crucial to a range of potential clinical treatments.