The campus community recently gathered at UCSF Mission Bay to congratulate world-renowned cell biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, who has received the 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research. Blackburn, PhD, 57, the Morris Herzstein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and ...

The causes of developmental delay -- what used to be known as mental retardation -- are often unknown. Environment often plays a role -- think of fetal alcohol syndrome. But genes are just as important a cause, notes UCSF pediatrician and scientist Katherine Rauen, MD, ...

hree UCSF faculty scientists are among the 65 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today. The new UCSF members are: * Kathleen Giacomini, PhD, professor and chair of biopharmaceutical sciences. * James Marks, ...

The Bay Area scientific community is invited to hear experts talk about advances in cancer imaging at a symposium at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on Saturday, Oct. 14. The symposium is scheduled from 8:45 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Byers Auditorium in Genentech Hall, ...

North Bay-based sticker company Mrs. Grossman's has chosen the Friend to Friend Specialty Shop in UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion as their primary beneficiary of sales from a new pink breast cancer awareness ribbon line being introduced in October to recognize National Breast Cancer ...

Nikon Instruments, UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) announced today the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center to promote education and innovation in microscopy imaging. The new UCSF Nikon Imaging Center is equipped with the latest technology for light ...