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<p>This sampling of videos produced in 2012 showcases clinicians, researchers, educators, students, alumni and members of the public working together to improve health, advance biosciences research and build community.</p>
Award-winning scientists, university chancellors, presidents of health care organizations, chief executive officers, deans of colleges, commanding generals: UCSF has a history of producing alumni who become leaders in the health sciences.
<p>UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes will observe World AIDS Day on December 3 with a symposium featuring emerging investigators working to combat the disease.</p>
<p>Responding to concerns about its animal research program, UCSF leaders are emphasizing that the University “takes very seriously its responsibility to treat animals used in biomedical research humanely.”</p>
<p>The National Weather Service has issued a "Hazardous Weather Outlook and High Wind Warning" for the San Francisco Bay Area beginning Wednesday, Nov. 28 and through the weekend.</p>
<p>The UCSF School of Medicine received the Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges on Nov. 3.</p>
<p>Weeks after winning the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, and John Gurdon, PhD, were able to celebrate their monumental achievement together for stem cell discoveries made half a century – and half a world – apart.</p>
<p>As part of receiving the Academic Senate's 12th Annual Faculty Research Lectureship in Clinical Science, behavioral neurologist Bruce Miller, MD, recently gave a lecture in which he described recent advances in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) research.</p>
<p>When Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, colleagues at UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes and scientists from his lab gathered Monday afternoon to cheer the laureate and raise champagne toasts, while he shared in the celebration via live video streaming from halfway across the globe.</p>
<p>For the first time since 1997, UCSF is embarking on a new long-range development plan to guide the University through the year 2035 and is seeking input from members of the community in the planning process.</p>
<p>Stem cell scientist Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, gained international acclaim in 2006 when he developed the method for inducing skin cells from mice into becoming like pluripotent stem cells and called them iPS cells. Here's a look at his road to the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine.</p>
<p>Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes and a UCSF professor of anatomy, is making headlines across the world as winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.</p>
<p>Colleagues at the Gladstone and UCSF celebrated the news on Monday that Shinya Yamanaka won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery that has transformed the field of stem cell research.</p>
<p>Since 1981, when UCSF’s Gail Martin, PhD, co-discovered embryonic stem cells in mice and coined the term embryonic stem cell, UCSF has been a key player in the stem cell field. Today, Shinya Yamanaka became the fifth UCSF scientist to win the Nobel Prize.</p>
<p>UCSF welcomed 810 students entering health sciences programs this fall. Almost 54 percent are female. Here's a look at demographics and fun facts about the Class of 2016.</p>
<p>Do you have UCSF Spirit? Capture it in a creative photo, submit it to UCSF’s Facebook page and be eligible to win an iPad2 and other cool prizes!</p>
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann delivered the 2012 State of the University Address on Sept. 25 in Cole Hall Auditorium. Here is the full transcript of that event.</p>
<p>State budget cuts have strained UCSF’s resources over the past year, but the University is adapting to the challenges and continues to lead the way in health sciences research, education and patient care, the chancellor said Tuesday.</p>
<p>The UCSF community is invited to hear Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann deliver her annual State of the University Address on September 25.</p>
<p>Biomedical researchers at UCSF have won five of 51 prestigious National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator awards for high-risk, high-reward research, each receiving up to $1.5 million over five years.</p>
Ronald Vale, PhD, of UCSF was one of three scientists awarded the 2012 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work that began more than three decades ago and has helped illuminate several critical aspects of life — how the heart beats and how cells transport material around internally.
<p>UCSF has been working to turn the results of last year’s employee engagement survey into meaningful changes for staff.</p>
John B. Ford, a longtime leader in fundraising for top universities, has been named Vice Chancellor, University Development and Alumni Relations at UCSF.
For the past three years, UCSF has joined in partnership with community volunteers and the Recreation and Parks Department to restore a trail on Mt. Sutro that had been closed to the public for nearly half a century.
UCSF's Excellence through Community Engagement and Learning (EXCEL) program helps the unemployed get back to work with opportunities for employment experience in administrative support positions around UCSF.
Children Receive Dental Services and Education at UCSF
The San Francisco Hepatitis B Collaborative offers free screenings for Hepatitis B (Hep B) and low cost vaccinations for community members every other Saturday at the Chinatown Public Health Center.
Experienced elementary school teachers partner with UCSF scientists to teach fellow elementary school instructors how to bring science into classrooms during the UCSF Science & Health Education Partnership's (SEP) City Science Summer Institute.