Powerful New Mini Microscope Will Enable Precision Cancer Surgery
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UCSF Medical Center Ranks Among Nation’s Exceptional Hospitals
UCSF Medical Center has been ranked among the country’s best hospitals in adult care in U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Best Hospitals survey.
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UCSF Health Hospitals Earn National ‘A’ Grade for Patient Safety
UCSF Health hospitals in Mission Bay, Parnassus Heights and Mount Zion have earned “A” ratings in the spring 2024 Hospital Safety Grades from The Leapfrog Group, reflecting the gold standard of
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How Rupa Tuan Turned a Lifetime of Family Lessons into a Teaching Career
This year's Sumner and Hermine Marshall Endowed Last Lecture will be given by Dr. Rupa Lalchandani Tuan. Dr. Tuan will deliver a lecture on the prompt, "If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
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Two UCSF Health Hospitals Among Nation’s Best in Quality, Safety
UCSF Health’s hospitals at Parnassus Heights and Mount Zion have both earned The Leapfrog Group’s 2023 Top Hospital award, a national distinction that only 6% of hospitals can claim.
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UCSF Health Hospitals Earn ‘A’ in Patient Safety
UCSF Health hospitals at Mission Bay, Parnassus Heights and Mount Zion earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from the health care transparency nonprofit, The Leapfrog Group.
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New UCSF Cancer Lecture Series Honors Celebrated Researcher, Mentor
The Zena Werb Memorial Lecture in Cancer Biology series is a product of an effort organized by family, colleagues and friends to celebrate the life and work of the late cancer researcher Zena Werb.
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UCSF Health Earns 9th Consecutive ‘Most Wired’ Hospital Award
UCSF Health was named among the nation’s “Most Wired” hospitals, an award that recognizes UCSF Health’s commitment to being on the cutting edge of digital health and health information technology.
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Sandy Feng Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2023
UCSF transplant surgeon Sandy Feng, MD, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the most prestigious organizations in health and medicine.
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UCSF’s Diana Greene Foster Selected as a 2023 MacArthur Fellow
Diana Greene Foster, leader of a groundbreaking study on what happens to women who are denied abortions, has been named a 2023 MacArthur Fellow, one of the most coveted honors in academia, science and the arts.
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UCSF Medical Center Is Among Nation’s Top Hospitals for 2023-24
UCSF Medical Center has been ranked among the country’s best hospitals in adult care in U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Best Hospitals survey.
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UCSF Internal Medicine Specialist to be Celebrated for Diabetes Epidemiology Research
UCSF primary care physician and researcher Alka M. Kanaya, MD, is being recognized with the 2023 Kelly West Award for Outstanding Achievement in Epidemiology from the American Diabetes Association (ADA).
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UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Rank Among Nation’s Best in 2023-24
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are recognized among the nation’s best pediatric medical centers in all 10 specialties assessed in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals 2023-24.
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UCSF Diabetes Center Founder Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Immunologist and UCSF Professor Emeritus Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) – one of the highest honors bestowed on American scientists.
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UCSF Hospitals Earn ‘A’ for Patient Safety from Leapfrog Group
UCSF Health hospitals at Mission Bay and Parnassus Heights earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for spring 2023
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Editing Genes in the Microbiome to Prevent Disease
A $70 million grant from the Audacious Project will help UCSF and UC Berkeley researchers edit the genes of microbes in the gut and airways that play a role in asthma.
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UCSF Neurologist Celebrated for Innovative Epilepsy Research
Jon Kleen is named the 2023 Dreifuss-Penry Epilepsy Award recipient by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). He is honored for his contributions to epilepsy treatment.
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Science World Honors Kevan Shokat for High-Impact Cancer Research
Kevin Shokat, who developed a successful approach to drugging a protein produced by the KRAS gene, has received two prestigious scientific awards.
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Diana Greene Foster Named to Most Influential Researchers List
Diana Greene Foster of UCSF was named one of the top 10 most influential scientists of 2022 by "Nature" for her study of what happens to women who are denied abortions.
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UCSF Cancer Specialist Recognized with Luminary Award for Gastrointestinal Cancers
Alan P. Venook, MD, a renowned expert in colorectal and liver cancers, has been announced as one of the winners of the 2022 Luminary Awards in Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers.
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UCSF Mission Bay Receives ‘A’ Grade for Hospital Safety
UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay has been nationally recognized with an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for its rigorous safety measures that protect hospital patients from harm and errors.
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UCSF’s Nevan Krogan Wins France’s Highest Honor
Nevan Krogan, PhD, director UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) and founder of QBI’s Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG), has been awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest honor, in a ceremony in Paris.
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UCSF Medical Center Ranks Among Nation’s Best for 2022-23
UCSF Medical Center has been ranked among the country’s finest hospitals in adult care by U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Best Hospitals survey.
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Understanding the Genesis of Cancer is Goal of $25 Million Award
A world-class team of researchers co-led by UCSF’s Allan Balmain, PhD, FRS, has been selected to receive a $25 million Cancer Grand Challenges award to investigate the very early stages of cancer development.
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2022 Precision Medicine World Conference Back In Person, Features Extensive UCSF Presence
For the seventh consecutive year, UCSF is co-sponsoring the Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) from June 28-30, 2022 to share the latest in this rapidly evolving space.
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Natalia Jura Delivers 2022 Byers Award Lecture on Beating Cancer Through Molecular Photography
Natalia Jura, an associate professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and an investigator at the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute, is the 27th recipient of the annual Byers Award.
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3 Researchers Named 2021 Fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Three UC San Francisco researchers have been selected as 2021 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its Science family of journals. They are among 564 newly elected fellows announced Jan. 26.
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Scientist Wins Prestigious Bowes Biomedical Investigator Award for Finding ‘Anti-CRISPRs’
Microbiologist Joseph Bondy-Denomy, PhD, has been selected as the 2022 William K. Bowes Jr. Biomedical Investigator for his groundbreaking discovery of a secret weapon deployed by viruses in their ancient battle against bacteria.
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UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco Becomes Second in State to Earn Top Surgery Designation
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco has been verified as a Level 1 Children’s Surgery Center by the American College of Surgeons.
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UCSF Rises in US News Global Universities Rankings for 2022
UCSF’s research has been ranked among the top in the world, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities 2022 rankings.
