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Female AIDS researchers from 16 countries gathered this week for the UCSF Conference on Women and AIDS, hosted by UCSF AIDS researcher, Nancy Padian, PhD, MPH, who is teaching these researchers from around the globe how to build a network to control the spread of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Padian is currently researching the diaphragm as an effective HIV prevention method in Zimbabwe with a $40 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
A study from the Milken Institute, an independent think tank, finds that the University of California system averaged the highest level of licensing income annually from its research discoveries in biotechnology. "Mind to Market: A Global Analysis of University Biotechnology Transfer and Commercialization" looks at how well institutions of higher education do at commercialization, the process of turning intellectual property into business startups and licensing income.
A world-renowned expert on Ayurveda, an ancient holistic approach to health that originated in India thousands of years ago, will present a lecture and workshop in late October.
QB3 recently welcomed visitors to its new Garage, where enterprising scientists are working to translate their ideas into biotech discoveries.
Volker Doetsch, director of the Institute of Biophysical Chemistry at Frankfurt's Goethe University, compares and contrasts the world of basic science at UCSF and in his home country.
Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease (GIND) have identified a potential new avenue for reducing the build up of toxic amyloid (Ab) proteins, which are suspected of causing Alzheimer's disease (AD).
UCSF's Women's Global Health Imperative welcomes this week 28 women scientists from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and South America for the start of a yearlong leadership-training program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center.
On public radio's Tech Nation, Louann Brizendine, MD, neurospychiatrist and director of the UCSF Women's and Teen Girls' Mood and Hormone Clinic, speaks with host Moira Gunn about Brizendine's new book <i>The Female Brain</i>.
Five UCSF projects will be funded from the largest state-funded breast cancer research program in the nation.
The September 25 issue of Newsweek features as its cover story "Twenty Top Women on Leadership." One of the women profiled is Renee Reijo Pera.
First-year students from all four schools will come together tomorrow for the first event of its kind that focuses on communication and patient safety.