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December 13, 2016
Quiz: How Well Do You Know UCSF in 2016?
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Nina Bai
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<section><h2>How well do you remember 2016 at UCSF?</h2><p><div>UC San Francisco had many milestones in 2016 in research, education and patient care. Take this quiz to see what you remember about some of our major advances from the last year.</div></p></section><section><h2>UCSF researchers following 3,000 adults over 25 years found that even occasional intake of this substance led to worse verbal memory.</h2></section><section><h3>As part of a nationwide listening tour, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, PhD, visited UCSF to discuss this White House initiative.</h3></section><section><h3>UCSF researchers found that triple-negative breast cancers, the most intractable common form of breast cancer, may be vulnerable to therapies targeting this.</h3></section><section><h3>The Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford I. “Sandy” Weill donated $185 million to UCSF in 2016, the largest gift to date for the University. The gift established the UCSF Weill Institute for …</h3></section><section><h3>Contrary to widespread clinical belief, UCSF researchers found that caffeine does not cause:</h3></section><section><h3>The UCSF School of Medicine launched a new curriculum this year to train the doctors of the future. The name of the new curriculum is:</h3></section><section><h3>UCSF researchers looked at this part of the heart as a possible pathway between alcohol and atrial fibrillation.</h3></section><section><h3>UCSF immunologist Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, was named the president and CEO of a new institute for cancer immunotherapy that was launched by the foundation of this Silicon Valley entrepreneur.</h3></section><section><h3>Papers uncovered by UCSF researchers showed that the sugar industry had worked closely with nutrition scientists in the mid-1960s to single out fat and cholesterol as causes of this disease.</h3></section><section><h3>UCSF hosted a summit convened by The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on this topic.</h3></section><section><h3>UCSF researchers discovered that azithromycin, a widely used antibiotic, could block this disease from infecting fetal brain tissues cultured in the lab.</h3></section><section><h3>The UCSF Medical Center was ranked for the 15th year among the nation’s premier medical institutions by U.S. News & World Report’s 2016-2017 Best Hospitals survey. This was the Medical Center’s top 10 ranking this year.</h3></section><section><h2>Tough questions!</h2><p><div>A lot has happened this year, with more to come. Stay in touch through 2017 as we reach new milestones.</div></p></section><section><h3>Pretty good!</h3><p><div>A lot of big changes happened throughout 2016, thanks to our dedicated researchers, faculty and staff. Stay in touch through 2017 as we reach new milestones.</div><div><br></div></p></section><section><h3>That's incredible!</h3><p><div>You're an expert on all things UCSF. Well done! Stay in touch through 2017 as we reach new milestones.</div><div><br></div></p></section>
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