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Completion of Case-based Textbook Entitled Liver Pathology
Dr. Linda Ferrell (Vice Chair and Professor) and Dr. Sanjay Kakar (Chief of Pathology at VAH, Associate Professor) have just completed a case-based textbook entitled Liver Pathology.
UCSF Team Discovers Key to Fighting Drug-Resistant Leukemia
Doctors who treat children with the most common form of childhood cancer – acute lymphoblastic leukemia – are often baffled at how sometimes the cancer cells survive their best efforts and the most powerful modern cancer drugs...
Dr. Lisa Coussens and Her Colleagues Discover New Way to Predict Breast Cancer Survival and Enhance Effectiveness of Treatment
A team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has discovered a new way to predict breast cancer survival based on an “immune profile” – the relative levels of three types of immune cells within a tumor...
Works of Charles Chiu and Steve Miller Featured in Microbe Magazine
The work of Drs. Charles Chiu and Steve Miller, two faculty members in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at UCSF, was highlighted in the January 2011 issue of Microbe Magazine.
Dr. Thea Tlsty - UCSF Scientists Help Guide Cancer Research to a Melding of Physics & Biology
Two separate grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), each totaling more than $15 million, will feature UCSF scientists as the senior cancer researchers...