Baxter Receives Endocrine Society's Highest Award
John Baxter, professor of medicine in the UCSF Diabetes Center, is the 2007 recipient of the Endocrine Society's highest award — the Fred Conrad Koch Award.
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Give to UCSFJohn Baxter, professor of medicine in the UCSF Diabetes Center, is the 2007 recipient of the Endocrine Society's highest award — the Fred Conrad Koch Award.
UCSF has received a $3,872,557 grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to expand its nonfederally funded human embryonic stem cell research laboratory and establish a stem cell techniques course for scientists throughout Northern California.
Ellen Haller, Cindy Lima and Ammon Corl will receive the Chancellor's Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and/or Transgender Leadership at a ceremony on June 11.
In head-to-head trials of two drugs, the one deemed better appears to depend largely on who is funding the study, according to an analysis of nearly 200 statin-drug comparisons carried out between 1999 and 2005.
In <em>SF Weekly</em>'s recent "Best of San Francisco 2007" feature, UCSF Mission Bay's Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center takes the honors for "Best New Gym":
Alicia Lieberman, an expert in infant and child development, has been named president of one of the nation's leading resources on the first three years of life.
Scientist, research dean, teacher and visionary, Keith Yamamoto has seen it all in his 35 years at UCSF. What does he think about today's UCSF science?
Women's health pioneer Judy Norsigian will speak on the media's impact on women's health, during a lunchtime talk on Tuesday, June 5.
UCSF Nancy Hassol will be among those working on the sidelines to make the 2007 AIDS/LifeCycle a success.
Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the body's ability to sense cold.
The campus community is invited to share their thoughts on the advancement of women staff at UC on June 25.
States that set high staffing standards for elder care in nursing homes are the only ones that come close to having enough staff nurses to prevent serious safety violations, according to a new study by a professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.
David Julius, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UCSF, has won two awards for his work on the molecular understanding of how humans sense temperature.
Thanks to rarely talked-about recent advances in radiation treatments, young children are surviving cancers that would have been incurable a decade ago. One strategy that is helping to boost survival is radiation treatment provided at the time of surgery. UCSF and fewer than a dozen other medical centers nationwide are at the forefront in advancing this mode of treatment, called intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT).
UCSF's Kerwin Alexander will be among those pedaling the 585-mile AIDS LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles next month.
Keeping an old brain young takes a jolt of novelty and a hunger for change...
UCSF opened the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Diagnostic Center, one of the few centers of its kind in the world.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has received one of the largest single donations ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services
UCSF has announced that a $25 million donation, one of the largest ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services, will jump-start the creation of a comprehensive program dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of Bay Area youths, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Faculty, staff and students were recognized for their outstanding efforts at UCSF and in the community at the annual Founders Day Luncheon on May 11.
A UCSF geneticist recently identified a gene that triggers a rare disorder resembling multiple sclerosis (MS).
More than 20 years ago, UCSF pioneered cardiac ablation surgery to help patients with erratic heartbeats by zapping their hearts. Now they've opened an impressive new high-tech surgery suite to improve this surgery.