University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFGladstone President R. Sanders "Sandy" Williams, MD, a professor of medicine at UCSF, will receive the ARCS Foundation’s 2012 Pacesetter Award next week for his lifelong dedication to furthering education and his extensive contributions to science and medicine.
<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>The UCSF community is invited to get into the Halloween spirit at parties on October 31.</p>
<p>The University of California’s Open Enrollment period begins next week, with some important changes coming to Health Net coverage affecting employees in San Francisco.</p>
<p>With the November election looming, University of Calfornia President Mark Yudof wrote an open letter to the UC community urging students, faculty, staff and alumni to exercise their right to vote.</p>
Universities should do a better job translating public funding into health and jobs, according to a new case study by UCSF researchers.
<p>Three burglary suspects, who were being pursued by the San Francisco Police Department, crashed their pickup truck into a loading dock on the UCSF Parnassus Heights campus Wednesday morning.</p>
<p>UCSF will be among the first in the country to educate and train nurses specifically to care for diabetes patients across their lifespan by establishing a new academic minor in diabetes at the UCSF School of Nursing.</p>
<p>For most people, losing your voice is a minor inconvenience. But when San Francisco Giants' sideline reporter Amy Gutierrez, better known as "Amy G," lost her voice during a homestand, she contacted the UCSF Voice and Swallowing Center. </p>
<p>Global health pioneer Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, addressed a packed UCSF auditorium in a special lecture about a community-based health care model that his nonprofit organization, Partners In Health, has brought to some of the world's most impoverished countries, including Haiti and Rwanda.</p>