One, Krystof Bankiewicz at ucsf, credits funding from Grove with drastically speeding up his research.
"When I started in 2001, no one was interested in Muckle-Wells, " recalls UCSF dermatologist Kieron Leslie.
"We hope to build it as quickly as possible, perhaps in four years, " says UCSF neuroscientist Arnold Kriegstein.
Celera went to UCSF researcher Kane and others who had collected DNA samples from hundreds of heart patients.
Another novel aspect of the UCSF research is that it doesn't involve a pharmaceutical company as a backer.
UCSF's Benowitz notes that smokers can experience dark moods and bad behaviors when they quit smoking, Chantix or no.
The UCSF scientists said the claimed benefits of these products are questionable and unproven compared with potentially severe risks.
Parsa, at UCSF, says his hospital tested 14 patients for the multicenter study.
Dr. Rankin and other scientists at UCSF, Stanford University and other institutions are studying the underlying neurobiology of social behavior.
Dr. Goadsby and colleagues at UCSF are conducting more imaging studies to determine what brain activity occurs during the premonitory phase.
Two visionaries, Francis Collins and Susan Desmond-Hellmann, were rewarded for their effort to bring a bold innovation culture to NIH and UCSF.
Both Waldmann and ucsf diabetes center director Jeffrey Bluestone, who invented the MacroGenics drug, were originally hoping their idea would yield safer organ transplant drugs.
Merzenich built on that work to develop, with colleagues from UCSF, one of the first practical cochlear implants for the hearing-impaired, in the late 1980s.
"Sometimes we look at it like a rebirth, " said Susan Peloquin, a UCSF neonatal intensive care nurse who specializes in hypothermia treatment and helped treat Mariela.
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One worry is that drugs used to prevent rejection of a transplant depress the immune system, and "cancers can grow rapidly afterward, " said the UCSF's Dr. Tempero.
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Senkut gives back to the SVSC by supporting research at universities such as UCSF and innovative new educational institutions like Singularity University, board memberships and investing.
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The UCSF team "really keeps me on track, " he adds, and knowing they will be checking his progress helps give him the motivation to stick to his regimen.
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"We desperately needed new medications, " says Neal Benowitz, a leading researcher in nicotine addiction at UCSF who was paid by Pfizer to help advise it on its clinical trials.
Until that information comes in, "I don't see a sea change in the approach to these patients based on this data, " says Alan Venook of UCSF, who is leading the comparative trial.
After being rewarmed, babies at UCSF are given an MRI to look at brain structure and for evidence of degree of injury, and EEGs, which measure the brain's electrical activity and seizures.
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But Dr. Levy, who isn't familiar with the UCSF plans, said Framingham researchers want more information about how such techniques would affect privacy and other issues before including them as study tools.
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The study, from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), followed 40 newborn babies who had lost at least 5% of their birth weight by the time they were 36 hours old.
Two weeks ago UCSF hosted an event for the announcement of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences where Zuckerberg, as one of the funders of the prize, was one of the speakers.
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At UCSF, the Li Ka Shing Foundation gift will be used to create a worldwide network of researchers and doctors, leadership exchanges between China and the U.S., and forge a program to create more precise medicines.
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In an accompanying editorial, Dr Mary Tierney, an expert in geriatric research at the Sunnybrook And Women's College Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada, points out that the UCSF team did not use the most sensitive tests available.
The team, from the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF), claim they have found five new proteins - and their corresponding genes, which could act as targets for a fightback from the body's own immune system.
"It's an interesting concept and it certainly provides a potential value for timing and alerting people to take a break, " David Rempel, Director of the Ergonomics Program at UC Berkeley and Professor of Medicine at UCSF, told Wired.
Peer-reviewed reports are available at smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu.
At a meeting with Michael Weiner, an expert on brain imaging and a professor at UCSF, Grove tells Weiner what he should talk about at a January meeting of experts on growth factors that Grove has organized with the Michael J.
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