University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSF<p>The UC Regents meeting scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday this week has been cancelled due to safety concerns, according to UC officials.</p>
<p>UCSF scientists <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=4829993" target="_blank">Anatol Kreitzer</a>, PhD, and <a href="http://profiles.ucsf.edu/ProfileDetails.aspx?Person=5506943" target="_blank">Loren Frank</a>, PhD, have won and will share the prestigious 2011 Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience. </p>
<p>Microbes that dwell within us can help or harm us, according to UCSF experts at "Gut Check," a lunchtime panel discussion hosted by UCSF as part of the Bay Area Science Festival last week.</p>
<p>Mark Laret, a national health care expert who is credited with outstanding leadership as chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center, has been elected by his peers to be chair of the board of the Association of American Medical Colleges through November 2012.</p>
Mark R. Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, has been elected by his peers as chair of the board of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). His term will run until November 2012.