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, […]
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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 […]
Hana El-Samad: ‘A Star in Her Field’: UCSF, March 26, 2013
Hana El-Samad: ‘A Star in Her Field’ To explain her research into the workings of cells, UCSF scientist Hana El-Samad offers an analogy from the world of machines. “Imagine a telephone or Internet network,” she says. “Despite their staggering complexity, packets of information find their destination on these networks and are interpreted correctly.” Cells work […]
UCSF Public Mission
In June 2012, I wrote an extensive report on all the ways that UCSF fulfills its mission of public service. One of the ways UCSF fulfills its public mission is providing access to pioneering care to patients with complex cases. Here, David Rowitch, MD, PhD, professor and chief of neonatology, and Sonia Bonifacio, MD, assistant […]
The Mechanisms of Pain: UCSF, Feb. 29, 2012
The Mechanisms of Pain Pain sensations take many forms, from the sting of a bee to the throb of an injury, from the ache of arthritis to the corrosive effects of a tumor. Scientists have studied pain for decades, yet very little is understood about the root causes of pain – the molecular mechanisms that […]
Treatment is Key to Prevention of HIV/AIDS, Doctors Say: UCSF, June 2011
This story was my contribution to a UCSF package on the 30th anniversary of the discovery of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Treatment is Key to Prevention of HIV/AIDS, Doctors Say Doctors fighting HIV/AIDS have a new strategy working for them: Use the treatment of the disease as a way to prevent it – […]
The Search for the Big Picture: UCSF, May 2011
The science of biology is undergoing a historic transformation, from one based on observation to one based on creation, and UCSF is in the forefront of driving that change. The move to a New Biology promises to accelerate an era of astounding discovery and achievement, in which science will not only cure many diseases and […]