The first center in the country to serve the specific cardiovascular care needs of Asians in the Bay Area and beyond has opened at UCSF Medical Center.

A question long debated among Alzheimer's disease researchers has been definitively answered by scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco.

Ray and Dagmar Dolby have donated $16 million to the University of California, San Francisco, in support of the construction of a proposed research building. With the donation, the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology will be renamed the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine.

UCSF's Department of Dermatology held its annual free skin cancer screening for the general public on May 6, with record participation in more ways than one. The 329 people who were screened contributed to a Guinness World Record attempt as part of the American Academy of Dermatology's (AAD's) national one-day event.

Nominations are due May 18 for the 2006 Chancellor's Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and/or Transgender Leadership.

The campus community is invited to celebrate the annual day to protect the planet on May 18 at the UCSF Parnassus campus, where more than 50 organizations will be represented.

Grand opening of the UCSF Asian Heart & Vascular Center

The San Francisco VA Medical center will celebrate the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art Center for the Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases with a ribbon-cutting on Friday, May 12.

A unique state partnership program that includes UC is offering two free workshops in conjunction with the annual sustainability conference at UC Santa Barbara in June.

A UCSF expert on Alzheimer's disease will talk about the national health problem at a free lecture on May 24.