Pediatric Reunion Draws Bone Marrow Transplant Survivors
More than 100 people, including bone marrow transplant recipients and their families, gathered recently to celebrate life at the first major reunion in more than 20 years.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFMore than 100 people, including bone marrow transplant recipients and their families, gathered recently to celebrate life at the first major reunion in more than 20 years.
Nicola Stewart got to ring the bell seven times.
The apparent suicide of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton, PhD, last Saturday has stunned top University of California leaders, who have termed her passing a personal and professional loss.
The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation recently named second-year UCSF medical student Sergio Hernandez a minority scholar.
UCSF is exhibiting works by American artist Robert Arneson and nine of his former students at the Kalmanovitz Library through December 16.
The campus community is invited to the ceremony honoring this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Award for GLBT Leadership on Monday.
Smokers will have only two designated areas for smoking — one on Parnassus and the other at Mount Zion — when UCSF strengthens its no-smoking policy effective July 1.
A recent study gives credence to the idea that the sanitized Western world may be suffering from high rates of asthma, eczema and allergy because human immune systems need to be challenged by disease and dirt.
Majid Seraj, a 1996 UCSF School of Pharmacy graduate born in Afghanistan, carried the UCSF name into this school room for fifth-grade girls on Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base, where he was teaching English as a volunteer.
From Uganda to Costa Rica and from Thailand to Tanzania, UCSF students, teachers and scientists are involved in hundreds of outreach projects related to the understanding and prevention of disease and to advancing health worldwide.
UCSF welcomed 21 interns to the Department of Pediatrics High School Summer Internship Program in Biomedical and Health Sciences on Monday.
A UCSF scientist whose studies with worms suggest human life span may be extended will discuss her research on June 26 at the Mission Bay Branch Library.
Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center have identified the mechanism by which minocycline, a medication currently being studied for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, protects brain and nerve cells from damage.
Grady Curry was arrested recently by the UCSF Police Department. Curry was apprehended while inside the bicycle cage of the Millberry Union Garage.
Margaret Rubino, a patient care coordinator in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, often feels stressed and emotionally drained after dealing with cancer patients day in and day out.
Oncology-hematology fellow Jennifer Lauchle, MD, is being recognized for her research into treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.
More than 40 Bay Area AIDS service organizations are beneficiaries of the 20th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 16.
The science and politics of stem cell research were presented last week by Deepak Srivastava and David L. Gollaher as a part of Gladstone's Science for Life lecture series.
The campus community is invited to hear the Rev. Cecil Williams talk about the intersection of faith and the LGBT community tomorrow.
A surgeon from the UCSF Fetal Treatment Center will be featured in today's episode of "Medical Incredible" on the Discovery Health Channel.
"I've seen so much here. I'm not sure I'd ever see this much in a lifetime of practice in the US," says Joanne Jorissen of her extraordinary first six months as a volunteer midwife at Bottom Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi.
The Greek physician Claudius Galen (A.D. 131–200) was an important contributor to the science of anatomy.
UCSF has launched a new website for researchers, educators, clinicians, leaders and academic personnel.
David Agard, PhD, UCSF'S first QB3 scientific director and a major force in conceiving and launching the institute, has announced he is stepping down from the position to return full time to his own research.
Photographer Fiona McDougal took this image for <i>AJN</i>'s photojournalism contest.
After 40 years as a pediatric surgical nurse and administrator at UCSF Children's Hospital, Inez Wieging has memories to spare.
A participant in the On-Ramp to Biotechnology program now is working parttime at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes.
Michael Callaham was recently interviewed by KPIX Channel 5 News about a series of reports just released by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
A recent Japanese study found that a potential DNA vaccine for Alzheimer's disease cut levels of amyloid proteins in the brain.