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  • Migraines Linked to Gene Mutation
    senior investigator Louis J. Ptácek, M.D., an investigator at HHMI and a professor of neurology at UCSF. "It's our initial glimpse into a black box that we don't yet understand." ...
    5-2-2013
  • Why Junk Is Good for the Brain
    This so-called junk DNA has largely been pushed aside and neglected in the wake of genomic gene discoveries, say the UCSF scientists. In their own research, the UCSF team studies ...
    4-16-2013
  • Exploring GPCRs as Therapeutic Targets
    ... GPCR Trafficking Looking at therapeutic opportunities of GPCRs from another angle is the lab of Mark von Zastrow, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at UCSF. ...
    4-15-2013
  • Novel Gene Tool May Best RNA Interference Technique
    Dr. Lim is director of the UCSF Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, a Howard Hughes ... The new technology developed by the team of UCSF and UC Berkeley researchers is called ...
    3-8-2013
  • Scientists Map "Rain Man"-Like Brains
    the brains of people with the condition, said Pratik Mukherjee, M.D., Ph.D., a professor of radiology and biomedical imaging at UCSF who was the co-senior author of the research. ...
    3-1-2013
  • Janssen Teams Up with Araxes to Tackle Cancer Target
    cellular pharmacology at UCSF, and Frank McCormick, Ph.D., FRS, professor and director of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCSF. Joining them in the new ...
    2-27-2013
  • MS Research Gets $1.4M Boost
    Other companies receiving funding in 2011 were the Howard Florey Institute and The Gladstone Institutes/UCSF. Fast Forward and EMD Serono entered into an initial two-year, ...
    12-21-2012
  • uniQure and Benitec Enter Cross-Licensing Agreement
    Glybera is the first approved gene therapy in the Western world. In June, uniQure collaborated with UCSF on the company's glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor gene for the ...
    12-5-2012
  • In Vitro Clinical Trials: Not that Far-Fetched
    Scientists foresee a time when induced pluripotent stem cells could be used to predict patients' response to a drug. While therapeutic use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS ...
    10-31-2012
  • Gene Variant Raises Brain Tumor Risk
    Using next-generation sequencing, researchers found a variant in the human genome that carries a six-fold higher risk for developing some brain tumors-a discovery they say could ...
    8-27-2012
  • Awakenings
    Institute of Virology and Immunology at UCSF awakened the relatively sleepy thymus of ... therapy, so GH should not be used as a treatment at this time. UCSF Article | Kevin Ahern
    8-15-2012
  • Bias in Pharma Studies Published by the FDA-Shocking!!!
    makers will be required to post study outcomes on the online trial registry clinicaltrials.gov. The study, by researchers at UCSF, is published in PLoS Medicine . | Michael Koeris
    8-13-2012
  • Genome Mapping on Nanochannel Arrays
    Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and BioNano Genomics have ... The UCSF team led by Pui-Yan Kwok, Ph.D., and Ernest T. Lam, Ph.D., and colleagues at ...
    7-16-2012
  • Fighting Brain Tumors by Inhibiting MET
    In vitro and in vivo studies by a team at the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center have shown ... Previous work by the UCSF team had identified a link between HGF and VEGF, and suggested ...
    7-9-2012
  • uniQure, UCSF Partner on Parkinson Disease Gene Therapy Trial
    University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to further develop an early ... FDA approval has been granted to enable the start of clinical trials, and UCSF has inked a ...
    6-21-2012

  • Journal Articles

  • Prognostic Scoring Systems in Patients with Follicular Thyroid...
    A. D'Avanzo, P. Ituarte, P. Treseler, E. Kebebew, J. Wu, M. Wong, Q. Y. Duh, A. E. Siperstein, O. H. Clark
    Thyroid
    Methods: We selected 86 patients with follicular thyroid cancer treated at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) hospitals from January 1954 to April 1998. The mean ...
  • An Educational Intervention To Improve Resident Comfort with...
    Leah Smith, Patricia O'Sullivan, Bernard Lo, Hubert Chen
    Journal of Palliative Medicine
    of California, San Francisco (UCSF) teaching hospitals from March to June, 2010, and involved all Internal Medicine Residents at UCSF. Measurements: A pre/post electronic ...

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