FYI…UCSF in the News is a daily summary of news stories published worldwide that highlight UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University.  To read the full news story, click the individual headlines listed below.

On the second Wednesday of each month, FYI…UCSF in the News includes an additional "Research Roundup" section that lists research papers authored by UCSF faculty and published in the journals Cell, Health Services Research, JAMA, Lancet, Nature, NEJM, Nursing Research, and Science.

UCSF PRINT AND ONLINE COVERAGE

  • Microbes May Threaten Lengthy Spaceflights (Washington Post)
    The Washington Post reports: "With NASA now actively planning for the day when astronauts will live for months on the moon or make the years-long flight to Mars and back, a potentially troublesome question is being raised with increasing urgency: Is the human body -- even a well-protected human body -- capable of living in space for long periods without suffering serious damage?" -- Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford, associate chief of staff at the UCSF VAMC and a former astronaut "who is researching the effects of 'microgravity' on immunity," is quoted.
  • Vested interests shouldn't decide stem cell grants -- Editorial (Sacramento Bee, The)
    A Sacramento Bee editorial states: "Internal conflicts continue to undermine the credibility and mission of California's quasi-public stem cell agency, the Institute for Regenerative Medicine..." UCSF is mentioned. -- [Free registration required to access this opinion piece.]
  • Risk Taking Is in His Genes (New York Times)
    The New York Times reports: "Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and others have turned adult skin cells into human embryonic stem cells, without using an embryo. ... Dr. Yamanaka "maintains a small two-person laboratory at UC San Francisco."
  • LEAH GARCHIK (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle's Leah Garchik reports: " With no muss or fuss, and all attention on their granddaughter, Sarah, rather than on them, former President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter were at UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes on Friday to see her present her Ph.D. thesis. Gladstone, at Mission Bay, houses research on cardiovascular and neurological diseases, as well as virology and immunology."
  • Buyout plan for UC president's office offers managers better deals (San Francisco Chronicle)
    The Chronicle reports: "A proposed buyout program in the office of University of California president Robert Dynes is aimed at eliminating about 150 jobs but would give management staff members a far better deal than lower paid employees." -- Mary Higgins, an administrative assistant at UCSF and chief steward for UC's clerical union, was interviewed.

UCSF HEADLINES

  • UCSF Presents Donations at Launch of Mayor's Open Space Initiative (UCSF Today)
    UCSF Today reports: "UCSF Senior Vice Chancellor Bruce Spaulding joined San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, and urban planning and development leaders at UCSF Mission Bay during the recent launch of the Mayor's Open Space Task Force."
  • Universal Newborn SCID Screening Proposed (UCSF Today -- News & Special Features)
    "As a young researcher in training during the 1980s, Jennifer Puck, MD, helped care for the well-known 'boy in the bubble,' who lived in germ-free isolation because of SCID, or severe combined immunodeficiency. Today, researchers know that SCID actually encompasses more than 12 known single-gene disorders that interfere with immune function. Children with SCID are born with faulty immune systems and can die from routine infections," reports Phyllis Brown in the UCSF News Office.