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UCSF Immunologist to Head New Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Renowned UC San Francisco immunologist Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, has been named president and CEO of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, a national initiative launched with a $250 million grant from The Parker Foundation, a private philanthropic organization established by Silicon Valley
American Association for Cancer Research Elects UCSF Faculty to Board of Directors, Nominating Committee
PHILADELPHIA — The members of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) have elected five members to serve on the AACR Board of Directors for the 2016-2019 term and four members to serve on the nominating committee for the 2016-2018 term. They will begin their terms at the AACR Annual
Berger, Bluestone Named to White House Cancer Moonshot Expert Panel
Mitchel Berger, MD, and Jeff Bluestone, PhD, have been named to a Blue Ribbon Panel of scientific experts, cancer leaders and patient advocates that will help to guide the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative. The UC San Francisco faculty members will help to inform the scientific direction and goals
UCSF Researchers Receive Prestigious NCI Outstanding Investigator Awards
Three researchers from the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center have received the NCI Outstanding Investigator Award in 2015: Thea D. Tlsty, PhD, Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, DSc (Hon), and Markus Müschen, MD, PhD. NCI’s Outstanding Investigator Award supports accomplished leaders in
2015 NIH Funding: A Look at the Researchers Behind the Numbers
UC San Francisco received more than $560.4 million in highly competitive funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2015 to advance our research across our schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and the Graduate Division. Return to the main story » Behind each grant and contract
Cancer Center Awards First 'Impact Grants' for High-Risk, High-Reward Projects
Eleni Linos, MD, MPH, DrPH, and Stephen Francis, MS, PhD, have been awarded the first UCSF Cancer Center Impact Grants, to pursue high-risk, high-reward research projects that would’ve been unlikely to be funded through conventional mechanisms. The grants – each $250,000 – were announced following a
UCSF Establishes Quantitative Biosciences Institute
UC San Francisco today announced the establishment of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI). The mission of QBI, located on the UCSF Mission Bay health sciences campus, is to drive forward the application of computation, mathematics, and statistics toward a deeper understanding of complex