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UC San Francisco Professor Thea Tlsty, PhD, is a winner of the “Grand Challenge” competition sponsored by Cancer Research UK (CRUK), an ambitious international funding initiative that aims to answer some of the biggest open questions in cancer...
Jayanta Debnath, MD, has been appointed as the new chair of the UCSF Department of Pathology, effective July 1, 2018.
Our Departmental 34th Annual Current Issues in Anatomic Pathology CME course (May 23-26, 2018) was highly successful.
The 2018 Annual Meeting of USCAP in Vancouver, Mar 17-23, involved many UCSF faculty and trainees (over 50), who co-authored 70 accepted abstracts. Platform presentations accounted for 17 of the presentations, 10 of which were presented by UCSF...
A symposium was held to honor the retirement of Dr. Abbas on March 2, 2018 titled "Immune Tolerance - Present and Future - In Honor of Abul K. Abbas's Decades of Contributions to Immunology, Education and Pathology"
The Department hosted a symposium on liver pathology to honor the retirement of Dr. Linda Ferrell which was organized by Drs. Kakar, Kim and Gill. Guest speakers included Dr. Neil Theise from Mt Sinai, New York City, Dr. James Crawford from Long Island...
Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California system, former Secretary of Homeland Security and former Governor of Arizona, with Kai Wang, Department Manager of the Department of Pathology at UCSF.
Dr. Ania Gheyara leads a team of scientists to discover an effective treatment for severe childhood epilepsy.
The team of Drs. Scott Oakes and Feroz Papa develop new compound against cell degenerative pathway that treats both blindness and diabetes in animal studies.
The Anatomic Pathology Dept was represented well at the annual USCAP meeting in San Diego. Faculty and residents had 40 abstracts presented as either posters or platforms. UCSF faculty or residents were 1st author on 30. In addition, Dr Arie Perry...