FYI…UCSF in the News is a daily summary of news stories published worldwide that highlight UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University.  To read the full news story, click the individual headlines listed below.

On the second Wednesday of each month, FYI…UCSF in the News includes an additional "Research Roundup" section that lists research papers authored by UCSF faculty and published in the journals Cell, Health Services Research, JAMA, Lancet, Nature, NEJM, Nursing Research, and Science.

UCSF PRINT AND ONLINE COVERAGE

  • Gender equality helps girls with math, study says (Philadelphia Inquirer)
    The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: "High school boys outscored girls in standardized math tests in the United States. But girls performed just as well as their male counterparts in Norway, Sweden, and other countries with the most economic equality, according to researchers from Northwestern University. But girls outscored boys in reading across all 40 countries the team studied. ... 'This is a very nice piece of work they've done,' said Louann Brizendine, a neurobiologist at the University of California San Francisco."
  • University of California strike averted (Sacramento Business Times)
    The Sacramento Business Times reports: "University of California service and patient-care workers won't strike June 4 and 5 as previously announced, according to a joint statement issued Thursday by the university administration and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. ... The strike would have hit medical centers at University of California Davis, UCSF, UCLA, UC Irvine and UC San Diego, as well as all 10 UC campuses."
  • Fledgling Scripps facility gets $20 million NIH grant (San Diego Union-Tribune)
    The San Diego Union-Tribune reports: "The Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla received a $20 million, five-year grant yesterday. The award propelled the institute -- founded last year -- into an expanding group of federally funded research centers focused on turning laboratory findings into treatments for patients. ... The Scripps center is the first in Southern California to receive such a grant. The inaugural group of award recipients in 2006 included UC San Francisco, which received a grant worth about $100 million, and UC Davis, which received $24.8 million."
  • Ernest Gallo Clinic says 'no' to Mission Bay, stays in Emeryville (San Francisco Business Times)
    The Business Times reports: "The Ernest Gallo Clinic & Research Center has decided not to join the life-sciences rush to Mission Bay, instead renewing its lease in Emeryville. The alcohol and substance abuse institute, affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco, signed a 10-year lease extension for 87,000 square feet at Wareham Development's EmeryStation I."
  • Bay Area biotech exports include brains, ideas (San Francisco Business Times)
    The Business Times reports: "The Bay Area is steadily and quietly growing a big export: its biomedical research smarts. That's landing local scientists in places like China, Turkey, Vietnam, Uganda and elsewhere as they try to spread knowledge born here to other spots on the globe." --- Dr. Robert Mahley, president of the J. David Gladstone Institutes, Gladstone scientists Dr. Warner Greene and Dr. Robert Grant, and Reg Kelly, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, or QB3, are quoted. --- Subscription required to access the full article.
  • Greene's leadership pushes HIV understanding (San Francisco Business Times)
    The Business Times reports: "[Dr. Warner] Greene's battle against HIV isn't limited to his San Francisco lab at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology. As the new president of the Accordia Global Health Foundation, which seeks to train African doctors and nurses to treat AIDS patients, Greene sees the full ravages of an epidemic that continues to tighten its grip on the continent. In sub-Saharan Africa, for every person started on antiretroviral drug regimens, four or five others are infected." --- Subscription required to access the full article.
  • Bay Area can be daunting for young researchers (San Francisco Business Times)
    Trinidad native Yaisa Andrews-Zwilling and her husband where stunned last year when they found out how much moving to the Bay Area to start their science careers as post-doctorate fellows at the J. David Gladstone Institutes would drain their bank account. --- Dr. Robert Mahley, president of the Gladstone Institutes, is quoted.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • Life's Loose Ends (Science Cafe)
    This is the end . . . My only friend, the end. The Doors' Jim Morrison wasn't thinking about UCSF medical anthropologist Sharon Kaufman, PhD, when he wrote those lyrics more than 40 years ago. But Kaufman, the author of three books and dozens of articles on how modern medicine organizes itself around the big issues of aging, life and death, could make it her anthem — that is, if she had time to sing.
  • German Wins 2008 JDRF Award for Scientific Excellence (UCSF Today)
    Michael German, MD, the Justine K. Schreyer Endowed Chair in Diabetes Research and associate director and clinical director of the UCSF Diabetes Center, recently received the 2008 David Rumbough Award for Scientific Excellence from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).