President Obama Appoints Alice Wong to National Council on Disability
<p>President Barack Obama has announced the appointment of UCSF's Alice Wong to the National Council on Disability.</p>
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Give to UCSF<p>President Barack Obama has announced the appointment of UCSF's Alice Wong to the National Council on Disability.</p>
The spread of breast cancer to distant organs within the body, an event that often leads to death, appears in many cases to involve the loss of a key protein, according to UCSF researchers, whose new discoveries point to possible targets for therapy.
A UCSF-led commentary is calling attention to a little-known regulatory loophole that allows unsafe and untested medical devices to reach the marketplace and harm patients.
<p>A UCSF School of Medicine program is developing a network of advisors, who are related to each other in a meaningful and complementary way, to help students succeed in their coursework and make the right career choices.</p>
<p>Home run king Barry Bonds has pledged to continue his support of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital with a three-year grant through his Barry Bonds Family Foundation.</p>
<p>In May 2013, the revolution in health will begin. UCSF is convening the world’s foremost thinkers, creators and innovators to roll up their sleeves and make precision medicine a reality.</p>
<p>UCSF is convening some of the world’s foremost thought leaders for a two-day summit to chart the course of precision medicine, an emerging field aimed at revolutionizing medical care.</p>
<p>At UCSF, we envision a future in which we will be able to cross-reference an individual's personal history and biology with patterns found worldwide and utilize that network of knowledge to pinpoint and deliver care that's preventive, targeted, timely and effective.</p>
<p>From precision medicine to the thriving bioscience hub at Mission Bay, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, discussed the University's work toward advancing health worldwide in a wide-ranging interview with KCBS.</p>
<p>The University of California is accepting applications through March 1 for the next staff advisor-designate to the Board of Regents.</p>
<p>UCSF is a community of maverick thinkers and doers who share a passion for turning the latest scientific discoveries into breakthrough health care. As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Mission Bay, we invite you to join our informal discussion on what science might achieve over the next decade.</p>
Leaders from city and state government, science and industry, joined the UCSF community at the ten-year anniversary party on Wednesday to celebrate the creation of the $3 billion Mission Bay campus.
<p>A decade after opening its first research building at San Francisco’s Mission Bay, UCSF has far surpassed its ambitious vision for a campus that today is an epicenter for science, health and hope.</p>
<p>Ten years after the UCSF Mission Bay campus was established, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay – the key patient-care component of the campus – is only two years away from opening.</p>