Yuet Wai Kan, MD, DSc, an internationally recognized leader in the field of human genetics, was honored Thursday (July 20) with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America.

The University of California will begin a comprehensive study to examine the impact of the 1996 voter-approved Proposition 209 on the diversity of the student body.

A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center has revealed a possible answer to a longstanding AIDS mystery: why only some people infected with HIV go on to develop HIV dementia.

KQED (88.5) radio's live call-in program Forum with Michael Krasny is scheduled to take up the issue of the Senate human embryonic stem cell bill, vetoed by President Bush, at 9:00 am Thursday, July 20 (pending last-minute changes).

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, spoke to the national and local press about a bill approved by the Senate Tuesday that would have expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.

UCSF is making some changes to the newly revised shuttle service beginning on Monday, July 24.

The Center for Genomic Sciences at Allegheny-Singer Research Institute in Pittsburgh report in JAMA that a build-up of a slimy substance in the Eustachian tube is responsible for a chronic ear infection in children called otitis media, or an infection or inflammation of the middle ear.

The UCSF-led Sjögren's International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA) held an investigators' meeting in Washington, DC, recently.

An East Bay family is turning its personal tragedy into a campaign to save others from the same fate.

More than 400 faculty members at UCSF are asking for more financial support for the National Institutes of Health.