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New Approach Attacks 'Undruggable' Cancers from the Outside In
Cancer researchers have made great strides in developing targeted therapies that treat the specific genetic mutations underlying a patient's cancer. However, many of the most common cancer-causing genes are so central to cellular function throughout the body that they are essentially 'undruggable'
Byers Distinguished Professorship Awarded to Wendell Lim, Chair of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
UC San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, announced Wednesday that Brook and Shawn Byers have established the Byers Distinguished Professorship, which will be awarded to Wendell Lim, PhD. The professorship recognizes Lim’s comprehensive record of academic achievement, leadership and service to
San Francisco Cancer Initiative Identifies 1st Year Progress, Challenges
Amid the complex system of American health care, where progress has lagged in the prevention and early detection of cancer, a major public health project is underway in San Francisco with one ambitious goal: reducing cancer in the city where the disease is the leading cause of death. The San
Latest Cancer Center Impact Report Reflects Accomplishments and Future Directions
The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is more than a place where scientists and clinicians strive to develop leading-edge therapeutics. In 2017, researchers and clinicians, patients and families, community groups, and government and industry partners continued to work hand in hand
Youth Using Alternative Tobacco Products Are More Likely to Smoke 1 Year Later
Nonsmoking adolescents who use e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or tobacco water pipes are more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes within a year, according to new research by UC San Francisco. The study analyzed data from a nationally-representative sample of more than 10,000 adolescents
Engineers Hack Cell Biology to Create 3-D Shapes from Living Tissue
In the journey from egg to embryo to mature organism, our bodies stretch and wrinkle and fold like a fabulously intricate piece of origami. Now UC San Francisco bioengineers have shown that many of the complex folded shapes that form mammalian body plans and internal tissue structures can be re
DNA Annotations Predict Patient Outcomes in Childhood Leukemia
UC San Francisco physician-scientists have developed a test that can predict how patients with juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) will respond to treatment, and may also be able to identify patients who are likely to recover spontaneously with little to no treatment. The researchers are