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

  • A nervy approach to weight loss (Los Angeles Times)
    The LA Times reports: "Disrupting the vagus nerve, which runs between the gut and the brain, may supplant obesity surgery." --- Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UC San Francisco and one of the lead investigators in a 30-patient clinical trial of vagotomy for weight loss, is quoted.
  • When Mom and Dad Share It All (New York Times Magazine, The)
    The New York Times Magazine reports: "How do you truly split domestic duties? Spouses who are determined to adhere to “equally shared parenting” do it minute by minute." --- Dr. Nanette Gartrell, a psychiatrist with the University of California at San Francisco who has been studying lesbian families for 22 years, is quoted.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • Computer Security: A Call to Action for Every One of Us (UCSF Today)
    In the past two months, UCSF has announced two security breaches, both of which had the potential to expose sensitive and private patient information to the outside world. Those breaches were very different and they have led to a renewed effort to tackle computer security across the UCSF community. Each member of the UCSF community is responsible for the security and protection of electronic Information Resources.
  • Chancellor Bishop Named to Royal Society (UCSF Today)
    UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop, MD, has been named a foreign member of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Bishop was one of nine foreign scientists so named in 2008 for their scientific excellence. He joins UCSF’s Bruce Alberts, PhD, Stanley Prusiner, MD, Allan Basbaum, PhD, Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, Gerard Evan, PhD, Y.W. Kan, MD, DSc, and Frank McCormick, PhD, all of whom were elected to the society for life after a peer review process that culminates in a vote by existing fellows.
  • UCSF to Host Spring Retreat to Launch CCTI (UCSF Today)
    The campus community and its partners are invited to attend the inaugural Center for Clinical and Translational Informatics (CCTI) Spring Retreat to bolster support for the center’s mission to integrate informatics technology for bench-to-bedside improvements. The spring retreat will take place on Friday, June 27, from 8:45 a.m. to noon in the UCSF Faculty/Alumni House on the Parnassus campus.

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

  • Capping protein increases the rate of actin-based motility by promoting filament nucleation by the A (Cell)
    Orkun Akin1 and R. Dyche Mullins1 --- 1Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
  • Comparison of Change in Quality of Care Between Safety-Net and Non–Safety-Net Hospitals (Journal of the American Medical Association)
    Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD; L. Elizabeth Goldman, MD, MCR; R. Adams Dudley, MD, MBA --- Author Affiliations: Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Dr Werner); Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Dr Werner); and Department of Medicine (Drs Goldman and Dudley) and Institute for Health Policy Studies (Dr Dudley), University of California, San Francisco.
  • Retiring retirement (Nature)
    Nature reports: "The United States and Australia have done away with this archaic practice. Peter Lawrence says it is time to end mandatory retirement worldwide. --- Cynthia Kenyon (54), University of California, San Francisco, is featured.
  • Building the bridge from bench to bedside (Nature)
    Nature reports: "As funding for translational research becomes increasingly available, attention is turning to how to build networks and career structures that will help investigators in the field to flourish." --- Mike McCune, director of the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the University of California-San Francisco, is quoted.
  • The branching programme of mouse lung development. (Nature)
    Ross J. Metzger1,3, Ophir D. Klein2,3, Gail R. Martin2 & Mark A. Krasnow1 --- 1. Department of Biochemistry and HHMI, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5307, USA; 2. Department of Anatomy and Program in Developmental Biology, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158-2324, USA; 3. Present addresses: Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, California 94158-2517, USA (R.J.M.); Departments of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics, and Institute of Human Genetics, Schools of Dentistry and Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0442, USA (O.D.K.). --- Correspondence to: Ross J. Metzger1,3Mark A. Krasnow1 Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to R.J.M. (Email: ross.metzger@ucsf.edu) or M.A.K. (Email: krasnow@cmgm.stanford.edu).
  • Stranded in the Periphery -- The Increasing Marginalization of Smokers (New England Journal of Medicine, The)
    By Steven Schroeder, M.D., from the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
  • Changes in Peer Review Target Young Scientists, Heavyweights (Science)
    After a year of gathering advice on how to improve its overloaded peer-review system, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) last week unveiled a plan to ease the workload on both applicants and reviewers and to help young investigators. The changes incorporate many recommendations from two advisory committees. But NIH rejected a suggestion aimed at eliminating an apparent bias favoring researchers who resubmit their grant applications after being turned down. --- Cell biologist Keith Yamamoto of the University of California, San Francisco, is quoted.

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