University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFImplanting electrodes into a pea-sized part of the brain can dramatically improve life for people with severe cervical dystonia – a rare but extremely debilitating condition.
UCSF has opened an automated hospital pharmacy believed to be the nation’s most comprehensive facility using robotic technology and electronics to prepare and track medications with the goal of improving patient safety.
Images and video from the UCSF Robotic Pharmacy for media use.
<p>UCSF Nobel laureate and Chancellor Emeritus J. Michael Bishop will be honored for his national leadership at the Annual Research! America Advocacy Awards on March 15 in Washington, DC. </p>
<p>A team of researchers led by Lalita Ramakrishnan, of the University of Washington, and UCSF's Lynn Connolly has discovered that one of the reasons TB treatments take so long is because the bacteria actively fight back against the antibiotics prescribed. </p>
<p>Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health program is supporting career development for translational and clinical researchers in a wide variety of disciplines and is launching a new seminar series on March 8.</p>
A new analysis of genetic data from nearly 200 humans whose DNA has been sequenced as part of the 1000 Genomes Project challenges conventional thinking among those who study evolution.
<p>The UCSF Academic Senate has announced the 2011 recipients of the Distinction in Teaching and the Distinction in Mentoring Awards. They are: Kenny Banh, Timothy Berger, Mallory Johnson and Jeanette Brown.</p> <ul> <li> </li> </ul>
<p>John Plotts, senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration, today issued a message the UCSF community on Operational Excellence, an ongoing initiative to help improve the excellence and efficiency of UCSF's key operational and administrative services while also reducing costs.</p>
<p>UCSF students are getting the help they need to pursue careers inside or outside of academia through the Graduate Student Internships for Career Exploration program, one of the first of its kind in the nation.</p>
Scientists at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute have discovered how a change in growth hormone activity in mice leads to fatty liver disease, a condition whose human counterpart is of rising concern worldwide.