Jim Wells: Helping to Fill the Drug Discovery Pipeline
Cancer, diabetes, inflammation, malaria. The list of diseases ripe for new treatments is long. Yet the pace of drugs coming to market is actually flat.
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UCSF Plays Significant Role in Stem Cell Research
With the breadth and depth of its research enterprise, UCSF is in a position to play a significant role in laying the foundation for stem cell research.
UCSF 101: Campus at the Crossroads
UCSF Today highlights a few of the people and programs that make this University a place of hope and promise.
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center: 'Winning the War' on Breast Cancer
Most scientists agree that increased risk to breast cancer is more strongly associated with environmental and lifestyle factors.
Bring Back the Ivory Tower, Part 2 of 2
Ken Dill believes biology needs a shot in the arm, a theoretical boost of the first magnitude. And to make that leap scientists need to get off the treadmill, step out of the stream, dream a little again.
Elizabeth Fair: Making a Greater Impact in Global Health
UCSF postdoctoral scholar Elizabeth Fair is helping to shape the future direction of Global Health Sciences (GHS). Since GHS began only three years ago with the vision of Executive Director Haile Debas, Fair has been working alongside about 65 researchers from UCSF and UC Berkeley on strategic planning to determine the institute's mission and future goals, as well as to devise models for applying basic science to global health work over the next five to 10 years.
Kavita Mishra: Following her Family's Footsteps into Medicine
Kavita Mishra vividly remembers the Algerian motorcycle accident victim she met while volunteering at a hospital in Madrid. "A large portion of his brain and skull was gone, but he could still speak four languages," Mishra, 23, recalls. The incident became a turning point in her life.
Giving Sight to the Blind: Children's Hospital Pediatric Ophthalmologist Treats Patients in Vietnam
Doug Fredrick, MD, director of pediatric ophthalmology at UCSF Children's' Hospital, joined a medical mission to Vietnam, sponsored by the non-governmental vision care organization ORBIS. Fredrick's week-long visit will have lifelong effects for the dozens of children he treated while there for conditions that are treated easily in developed countries like the United States.
Alma Sisco-Smith: Making UCSF a Better Place
Gender equity, sexual harassment, conflict resolution and ethics. These are a few of the challenging issues that UCSF has tackled over the years as it tries to make the University a better place for faculty, staff and students.
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine: Leading the Health Care Revolution
Now in its ninth year, the Osher Center has been a steadfast role model in this health care revolution in San Francisco.
Center for Health and Community: Addressing Issues that Affect Public Health
For eight years, UCSF's Center for Health and Community has fostered education, research and service aimed at understanding how health impacts the community.
UCSF Doctor Explores North Korea
Ricky Choi likes to challenge assumptions with experience. A self-described intellectual with a passion for health and human rights, Choi has traveled and studied widely. But there was no place on earth about which this third-year pediatric resident in UCSF's PLUS (Pediatric Leadership for the UnderServed) program was more passionately curious than North Korea.
Fetal Treatment Center Patients Reunite at UCSF
Seventeen former patients and their families attended a reunion at UCSF to celebrate the lifesaving care of the Fetal Treatment Center.
Study: Vegetables May Help Keep Brains Young
New research from the National Institute on Aging found that eating vegetables could help keep our brains younger. Howard Rosen, MD, professor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, talks about the study with KPIX Health and Science correspondent Dr. Kim Mulvihill.
UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor Named One of 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology
A. Eugene Washington, MD, executive vice chancellor (EVC) and provost of the University of California, San Francisco, has been named one of the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology for 2006, in an annual listing selected by eAccess Corp.