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Where Does the Ebola Virus Hide Between Outbreaks?
Joe DeRisi, PhD, a master detective of infectious diseases, stumbled on a clue to cracking the decades-long search for the place – or creature – where the Ebola virus hides between deadly outbreaks.
UCSF’s Global Health Group Celebrates 10 Years of Impact
Global Health Sciences is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Global Health Group, and it has a long list of accomplishments to claim from that time.
UCSF Innovators Use EHRs to Track Hospital-Acquired Infection
UCSF Health Informatics team has used electronic health records to track down a source of a common hospital-acquired infection.
Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics Now Available at UCSF
A genome sequencing test developed at UCSF that can rapidly pinpoint the cause of a bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic infection is now available to help physicians nationwide diagnose cases.
Two UCSF Researchers Named 2017 Pew Scholars in the Biomedical Sciences
Anna Molofsky and Shaeri Mukherjee were among the 22 early-career researchers in the 2017 class announced June 15 by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
Video Imaging Reveals How Immune Cells Sense Danger
How T cells feel out intruders rapidly and reliably enough to nip infections and other threats in the bud has remained a mystery to researchers.
New Funding Will Support Research into Biology of Malaria Parasite
UCSF researcher Grant Dorsey received federal funding for the Program for Resistance, Immunology, Surveillance and Modeling of Malaria in Uganda.
New Polio Virus Evolution Insights Could Lead to Improved Vaccine
UCSF researchers have helped to identify the three evolutionary steps the polio virus used to evolve from harmless vaccine into a regional menace. With the new knowledge, they have developed a new polio vaccine that should be unable to escape and cause outbreaks.
Researching How Stress Among Sexual Minorities Affects Health on Genetic Level
Researcher Annesa Flentje is looking at ways stress among sexual minorities – those whose sexual orientation, identity or practices differ from the majority – can affect physical and mental health, starting at the genetic level, with a particular focus of late on the effect of stress on HIV-positive men.
Roly Gosling: Working Toward His Vision of a Malaria-Free World
Two things brought Roly Gosling to his current work to eliminate malaria: a series of British children’s books he read as a boy and a conviction that he should put his vision and beliefs into practice.
