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Living Transplant Donors Need Long-Term Monitoring, Too
Sarwal Lab
April 14, 2019
UCSF Researchers Recommend Creation of National Donor Registry While organ transplant recipients receive continual care as the end-stage treatment to their condition, attention also should be given to living donors, who can suffer from hypertension, diabetes and other disorders after donation, according to a study...
Hillary Braun, MD Awarded Prestigious Resident Research Scholarship by American College of Surgeons (ACS)
UCSF Resident Research Program
March 25, 2019
Hillary Braun, MD, a third-year (PGY-3) general surgery resident at UCSF, has been awarded a prestigious two-year resident research scholarship by the American College of Surgeons for 2019-2021. The scholarships are supported by the generosity of Fellows, Chapters, and friends of the College, to encourage...
Leonardo Ferreira, Ph.D. Recipient of Jeffrey G. Klein Family Diabetes Fellowship for Study of Engineered Regulatory T Cells
UCSF Tang Lab
February 26, 2019
UCSF molecular immunologist Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, Ph.D., @ enhancerleo, a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratories of Dr. Qizhi Tang and Dr. Jeffrey Bluestone at UCSF, has been awarded the 2019 Jeffrey G. Klein Family Diabetes Fellowship to study engineered regulatory T cells (Tregs). The proposal, titled...
Arya Zarinsefat, M.D. Recipient of Prestigious UCSF-Gladstone Center For AIDS Research (CFAR) Mentored Scientist Award
Sarwal Lab
February 26, 2019
Arya Zarinsefat, M.D., a UCSF general surgery resident and research fellow in the Sarwal Lab, has been awarded a prestigious UCSF-Gladstone Center For AIDS Research (CFAR) Mentored Scientist Award. Dr. Zarinsefat's research will focus on better understanding the genes and process of rejection in kidney...
Simon N. Chu, M.S. Recipient of Association for Academic Surgery Outstanding Medical Student Award
Transplantation Research Lab
February 13, 2019
Simon N. Chu, M.S., a 4th Year UCSF medical student and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow in the laboratory of Qizhi Tang, Ph.D., has been awarded the 2019 Association for Academic Surgery Outstanding Medical Student Award at the 14 th Annual Academic Surgical Congress held in Houston, Texas on...
Dr. Leonardo Ferreira Talks CRISPR, HIV, and Engineering Cells as Therapies for Immune Disorders on Talk Show ‘Cognitum’ on NewTV
UCSF Tang Lab
December 06, 2018
Molecular immunologist and human genome engineer Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, Ph.D. , a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratories of Dr. Qizhi Tang (Department of Surgery) and Dr. Jeffrey B luestone (Diabetes Center) at UCSF, was interviewed about his research on the talk show ‘Cognitum’ on NewTV. ‘Cognitum’ is a show...
UCSF Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Achieves Accreditation with Distinction from ANCC
UCSF Surgical and Critical Care NP Fellowship Program
October 29, 2018
The UCSF Surgical and Critical Care Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program, a joint program of the Department of Surgery, Department of Anesthesia, and UCSF Health, was recently awarded the Accreditation with Distinction, the highest recognition awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Accreditation...
Qizhi Tang, Ph.D. One of Featured Speakers at 1st Annual UCSF Immuno"XX": Women in Immunology Symposium
UCSF Transplantation Research Lab
October 19, 2018
Immunologist Qizhi Tang, Ph.D., p rofessor and director of the Department of Surgery's Transplantation Research Lab and Tang Lab, is one of the featured speakers at the first annual UCSF Immuno"XX": Women in Immunology Symposium on October 22, 2018 and will lead the session on Tolerance and Immunity. Immuno“XX” is...
Nancy Ascher, MD, PhD Invited to Serve on WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues
UCSF Transplant Surgery
July 10, 2018
Nancy Ascher, M.D., Ph.D., the world-renowned organ transplant surgeon and a former Chair of the UCSF Department of Surgery, has also been invited to serve on the WHO Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues, an international multidisciplinary task force of 31 experts spanning the...
Nature Article by Willenbring Lab Demonstrates How Liver Cells Switch Identities to Grow New Tissue
Willenbring Lab
June 14, 2018
In the medieval ages, alchemists dedicated their lifetimes searching for the formula that would transform ordinary metals into gold. In our bodies, several cases of “cellular alchemy” have been reported. Known as transdifferentiation, this process consists of one specialized cell type transmuting into a different...
Leonardo Ferreira Receives Trainee Poster Award from the American Association of Immunologists
UCSF Tang Lab
May 21, 2018
Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, Ph.D., a postdoctoral scholar and molecular immunologist in the Tang Lab and Bluestone Lab at UCSF, received a "Trainee Poster Award" from the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) at the organization's 2018 annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The award is given for first-author...
HHMI Research Fellow Simon N. Chu Awarded Dean’s Prize in Research and Scholarship by UCSF School of Medicine
Transplantation Research Lab
April 11, 2018
Simon N. Chu, M.S., has been awarded the 2018 Dean’s Prize in Research and Scholarship by the UCSF School of Medicine for his molecular medicine research. Chu, a senior medical student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Research Fellow, will present his...
Leonardo M. R. Ferreira Discusses Designer Cell Therapies for Complex Diseases at Future of DNA Synthetic Biology Symposium
UCSF Tang Lab
March 24, 2018
Molecular immunologist and human genome engineer Leonardo M.R. Ferreira, Ph.D. , a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratories of Dr. Qizhi Tang (Department of Surgery) and Dr. Jeffrey Bluestone (Diabetes Center) at UCSF, recently gave a captivating talk about his research at the Future of DNA, Blockchain, and...
Transplant Surgeons Sandy Feng and Peter Stock Rank in Top 20 of NIH-Funded Investigators in Surgery for 2017
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 12, 2018
Transplant surgeons Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D. and Peter G. Stock, M.D., Ph.D. continued their stellar records of accomplishment in garnering NIH funding for their cutting-edge clinical research, ranking in the top 20 of all NIH-Funded principal investigators in the category of surgery nationally for 2017. Stock...
Wired Magazine Visits Shuvo Roy and The Kidney Project
UCSF School of Pharmacy
February 25, 2018
Kidney failure is a debilitating and ultimately deadly illness, and a health policy crisis. With 468,000 people on dialysis in the U.S., costing the government $31 billion dollars a year, very little money is spent on researching alternatives to current treatments. Wired magazine’s Megan Molteni visited Shuvo Roy...
Minnie Sarwal Co-Leader of 5-year $8M NIH Grant to Study Role of CMV Infection in Kidney Transplant Rejection
Sarwal Lab
October 03, 2017
UCLA, UCSF and City of Hope have received a five-year, $8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study how a common virus called cytomegalovirus may provoke the immune system to reject transplanted kidneys. Minnie M. Sarwal M.D., Ph.D., FRCP, DCH , professor and director of...