Robert L. Nussbaum, MD, professor of medicine and chief of medical genetics at UCSF, has been awarded one of seven research grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to develop mammalian models of Parkinson's disease, the foundation announced this week.

UCSF scientists have discovered why some misfolded shapes of a prion protein are more infectious than others - differences that affect how readily prions can trigger abnormal folding in other proteins.

Meetings are planned for tomorrow and July 5 to discuss the recent death of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton, PhD.

San Francisco native and family advocate Gwen Henry has been named co-chair of the UCSF University-Community Partnerships Council.

A University of California, San Francisco study has found that men with advanced, often untreatable prostate cancer who received a therapeutic cancer vaccine went on to survive longer than those receiving a placebo.

UCSF's Jayanta Debnath, MD, and Scott A. Oakes, MD, have been named recipients of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Physician-Scientist Early Career Award program.

Judy Liao, an analyst in the Pediatric Palliative Care Program, has been named the winner of the UCSF AIDS Walk T-shirt design contest.

Scientists are making headway in exploring the potential future use of stem cells to treat heart disease, according to a review article in the current issue of Nature (June 29, 2006).

The roots of the UCSF School of Nursing are 100 years deep, growing out of the spirit of renewal that rebuilt San Francisco after the great earthquake of 1906.

A UCSF resident in internal medicine has been awarded a Fulbright US Student Scholarship.