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Remembering Nilani
UCSF’s beloved service dog was a miracle worker, a sweetheart, a healer, a friend.
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Researchers Create Cellular “ORACLs” to Aid Drug Discovery
A team of researchers at UCSF has devised a new approach for early stage drug discovery that uses techniques from the world of computer vision in combination with a powerful new tool.
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Program Seeks To Help Gun Victims Break Cycle of Violence
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Most Popular Science Stories of 2015
These are the stories that engaged our visitors in 2015 – whether it was reading in-depth about brain rejuvenation, watching mesmerizing cells in motion on social media, or learning about the latest discoveries that could soon lead to new treatments.
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Big Ideas in Health and Science for 2016
We asked experts across UCSF to identify what's ahead in how we approach research, what disease areas will see major advances, and where basic science will be translating into real treatments.
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‘White Coats for Black Lives’ Marks Anniversary by Urging Actions, Not Just Words
One year after UCSF students launched a national movement to highlight highlight racial disparities in education, health care and civic justice, they gathered again to meet a new challenge for the movement: turn words into actions.
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2015: The Year in Review at UCSF
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2015 Year in Pictures
See a collection that highlights 30 moments and milestones of 2015 that represent our missions in research, patient care and education.
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Cancer Treatments May Need To Be Tailored To Each Tumor
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UCSF Speakers Announced for 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference
The lineup is finalized for the 2016 Personalized Medicine World Conference, with nine scheduled talks by UCSF leaders and faculty.
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UCSF Tackles San Francisco Housing Crisis
The city offers its residents and the UCSF community an abundance of benefits, from its thriving culture of innovation to its surrounding natural beauty. Those benefits, however, have come at a cost – especially in recent years, as housing costs have skyrocketed and competition for affordable units has grown fierce.
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UCSF and UC Hastings to Collaborate on New Housing Plan
UCSF and UC Hastings College of the Law have signed a Letter of Intent to jointly develop new campus housing in San Francisco’s Civic Center and Tenderloin neighborhoods, in an effort to serve the growing housing needs of their students and trainees.
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Cancer Center Solicits High-Risk, High-Reward Ideas for $250K Award to Impact Cancer
The Cancer Center will give $250,000 to one high-risk, high-reward research project to address a key problem in cancer. Deadline for applications is Dec.18.
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UCSF Among 10 Institutions to Receive Grants to Retain Clinical Scientists
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced grants totaling $5.4 million to 10 medical schools, including UCSF, to provide stronger institutional support and supplemental funds for early-career physician scientists.
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‘Purity’ Of Tumor Samples May Significantly Bias Genomic Analyses
A new study by UCSF scientists shows that the proportion of normal cells, especially immune cells, intermixed with cancerous cells in a given tissue sample may significantly skew the results of genetic analyses and other tests performed both by researchers and by physicians selecting precision therapies.
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UCSF Will Lead Research for AIDS Cure Within 5 Years
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Early Study Links Mothers’ Education Level to Telomere Length in Newborns
A small study of new mothers suggests that not having graduated from high school may impact the likelihood of babies being born with shortened telomeres.
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Illuminating Depression’s Circuitry
If depression is caused by flawed brain circuitry, it may be possible to shift that circuitry toward healthy neural processing instead. UCSF researchers hope to map and correct aberrant neural behavior to cure mood disorders.
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Affordable Care Act Will Spur California Health Care Workforce to Develop New Leadership, Flexibility and People Skills
As health care shifts away from a fee-for-service model as a result of the ACA, health care workers in California will be called upon to develop new skills and fill new roles, according to a study led by UCSF researchers.
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Mexico City Honors UCSF's Jaime Sepulveda for Pivotal Role in HIV/AIDS Prevention
To mark World AIDS Day, the government of Mexico City held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new HIV/AIDS clinic and named it for Jaime Sepulveda, MD, DSc, MPH, executive director of UCSF Global Health Sciences.
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Curing AIDS: New San Francisco-Based Institute Gets $20 Million
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How an Approach Called ‘Shock and Kill’ Could Cure HIV
HIV can lurk for a lifetime in the body, so to truly cure patients, scientists are trying to find ways to target these HIV reservoirs in a strategy known as “shock and kill.”
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SPARQ Project To Improve Care For Women In India, Kenya
UCSF's Global Health Sciences is launching a new project to improve care for women in India and Kenya, called the Strengthening People-centered Accessibility, Respect, and Quality (SPARQ) project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
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$20M Grant from amfAR Funds Institute for HIV Cure Research
In a bid to end the worst epidemic in modern times, the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) is funding an ambitious effort based in San Francisco to eliminate the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from those who are infected.
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Swaziland Likely To Be First To Eliminate Malaria In Southern Africa
The Malaria Elimination Group, an independent international advisory group on malaria elimination convened by the Global Health Group at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), gathered in the Ezulwini Valley for its tenth meeting to celebrate Swaziland’s achievements. The meeting was opened on November 16, 2015 by Swaziland’s Minister of Health, Honorable Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane.
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Immunotherapy For Type 1 Diabetes Deemed Safe In First U.S. Trial
In the first U.S. safety trial of a new form of immunotherapy for type 1 diabetes, patients experienced no serious adverse reactions after receiving infusions of as many as 2.6 billion cells that had been specially selected to protect the body’s ability to produce insulin.
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Warm Temperatures Worsen Cardiovascular Disease but not Diabetes Risk in Mice
A new study led by UCSF researchers has found that mice who spend too much time in their thermal “comfort zone” while gorging on fatty foods more than double their risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to mice who stayed cool while eating the same diet.
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Staff Appreciation Events Celebrate Contributions of Frontline Employees
The annual staff appreciation events not only recognize the collective contributions of staff, but they also build on other UCSF initiatives designed to foster community.
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2 UCSF Researchers Named 2015 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Louis Ptacek and William Seeley have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.