The Golden State Warriors youth coach is a champion against cancer. By Dan Fost Dec 24, 2020 When Troy Druppal won Junior NBA Coach of the Year honors in 2020 for his work teaching hoops to Warriors-crazy youth, he took it in stride. “I just clock in every day and do the best I can […]
Startup Science: How the Idea for Synthetic Cells Took Silicon Valley By Storm
From UCSF Magazine, June 12, 2018 I loved working on this story about incredible UCSF scientist Wendell Lim, who is figuring out how to program cells in ways that may help cure many diseases. By Dan Fost Scientists working on the molecular and cellular level know that big things happen in small systems. In 2007, […]
Swiftdine Speeds Up Dining Out: Gigster blog, July 13, 2016
Swiftdine Speeds Up Dining Out July 13, 2016 By Dan Fost Like so many other innovations in technology today, Swiftdine has its roots in an everyday problem that someone wanted to solve. The Azeez family of Lima, Ohio, enjoyed eating together in restaurants, but the father, Kemi Azeez, was a busy doctor who couldn’t afford […]
Dear Timmy: San Francisco magazine, Sept. 4, 2015
Dear Timmy An open letter to Tim Lincecum on the occasion of his probable Giants farewell. By Dan Fost | September 4, 2015 It’s painful to think of this as a farewell letter, although that’s probably what it is. With your hip surgery complete, your contract expiring, and nothing but rehab and uncertainty on the […]
UCSF Faculty Salary Equity Review Finds Few Gender-Based Inequities: UCSF, Feb. 12, 2016
UCSF Faculty Salary Equity Review Finds Few Gender-Based Inequities By Dan Fost UC San Francisco has identified several departments in which female faculty were paid less on average than their male counterparts for comparable work and is actively working to correct those inequities, according to a recently released report. Identifying and correcting inequities is part […]
UCSF Researchers Win Awards to Bring Treatments Out of Lab: UCSF, Feb. 16, 2016
UCSF Researchers Win Awards to Bring Treatments Out of Lab By Dan Fost Promising early stage research highlighted at Catalyst Awards Fall 2015 cycle final report out event. It’s the sort of event that has become commonplace in Silicon Valley: Speaker after speaker gave the audience a 15-minute presentation, describing an innovation they’re working on and […]
Scientists in Clinical Departments Foster Collaborations: UCSF, December 16, 2014
I wrote three stories for the UCSF School of Medicine home page in December about how clinical departments are increasingly hiring scientists who conduct basic research, and this collaboration is leading to greater discoveries. This story is the mainbar, looking at some particularly fruitful collaborations. One sidebar focuses on the hiring process, and another sidebar […]
Mark Ansel Takes Helm at BMS: UCSF, December 16, 2014
I wrote three stories for the UCSF School of Medicine home page in December about how clinical departments are increasingly hiring scientists who conduct basic research, and this collaboration is leading to greater discoveries. This story is a profile of Mark Ansel, the new director of UCSF’s Biomedical Sciences Program (BMS). The mainbar looks at […]
Basic Scientists & Clinicians Find Shared Interests As Partners: UCSF, December 16, 2014
I wrote three stories for the UCSF School of Medicine home page in December about how clinical departments are increasingly hiring scientists who conduct basic research, and this collaboration is leading to greater discoveries. This story is a sidebar about the hiring process. The mainbar looks at some particularly fruitful collaborations, and another sidebar profiles […]
“San Francisco: The Leading Center of Health, Healing and Hope”: Hospital Council of Northern and Central California
SAN FRANCISCO: THE LEADING CENTER OF HEALTH, HEALING AND HOPE I wrote this report for the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California in the fall of 2014 and it was presented at the Silver Spur Luncheon on Nov. 18, 2014. I include the summary here, as well as links to the full report and […]