June 25, 2006
Sasha Cano thought she was dreaming: she woke up in an ambulance and was told that she was being taken to the emergency room. "When they told me I had had a seizure, I didn't believe them," Cano recalls, who in December 2003, awoke from ...June 22, 2006
Third-generation San Franciscans, Jay, Clare, and Alicia McEvoy had a passion for philanthropy. Never marrying, the siblings spent their lives together in the Sea Cliff home built for their parents, devoting their energy to local organizations such as St. Monica's Church, the Schools of the ...June 21, 2006
Margaret Rubino, a patient care coordinator in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, often feels stressed and emotionally drained after dealing with cancer patients day in and day out. "Sometimes you want to cry, because the stories are so heartbreaking," said Rubino. "Much of our job ...June 20, 2006
UCSF pediatric oncology-hematology fellow Jennifer Lauchle, MD, has received the 2006 Melvin Grumbach Award for Pediatric Research for her work on modeling the genetics of acute myeloid leukemia. Lauchle's research has the long-term goal of developing more targeted and effective therapies for acute myeloid leukemia, ...May 22, 2006
More than 30 years ago, when still a graduate student at University of Colorado, UCSF biochemist Patrick O'Farrell, PhD, invented a way to separate proteins from one another in biological samples, a technique called high-resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The technique underlies much of modern biomedical ...May 15, 2006
By determining how a class of compounds blocks signaling in cells, UCSF scientists have identified what is perhaps the most potent drug candidate yet against a highly lethal kind of brain tumor. The compound, known as PI-103, shows unique potency against cancer cell proliferation in ...
Her mother’s “good” battle against breast cancer inspires Hope Rugo to discover more effective treatments.
Meet more of Our Heroes »Congrats to Dr. Laura van 't Veer, @UCSF winner of EU Women Innovators Prize #euic2014 http://t.co/1EUZf5Ddb2
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