A digital biomarker of diabetes from smartphone-based vascular signals The global burden of diabetes is rapidly increasing, from 451 million people in 2019 to 693 million by 20451. The insidious onset of type 2 diabetes delays diagnosis and increases morbidity2. Given the multifactorial vascular… Continue Reading
These San Francisco doctors flew to New York to fight the coronavirus — and they have a warning for us When Dr. Ethan Weiss arrived in New York in late April, he started his first shift almost immediately. Read More Continue Reading
UCSF studying stem cells as possible coronavirus treatment UCSF’s Dr. Michael Matthay wasn’t thinking about a pandemic in January when he launched a clinical trial to investigate whether certain stem cells could effectively treat a serious form of respiratory failure. Read more. Continue Reading
Ethan Weiss Answers the Call to New York Ethan Weiss, MD is part of the twenty-four UC San Francisco health care workers on voluntary assignment in New York City providing urgently needed health care support for patients. Ethan's story on his decision to go. Continue Reading
2020 Chen Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in Human Genetic and Genomic Research Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD This award is to celebrate the achievement of a biomedical scientist: who has performed extraordinary work in biomedical sciences which has changed the thinking in the human genomics field; and/or who… Continue Reading
Remembering John F. Murray, MD It is with great sadness that we share the news that John F. Murray, Professor of Medicine emeritus, has passed away.Dr. Murray was tirelessly dedicated to what was then called San Francisco General Hospital (now,… Continue Reading
Researcher of the Month: Natalia Jura, PhD Natalia Jura, PhD, is focused on how cells transmit signals via protein molecules on their surface to elucidate what goes wrong in cellular communication with cancer. "We are using cryogenic electron microscopy to tackle the… Continue Reading
Changing Channels Kissing a frog might not spark a fairy tale ending, but learning how frogs survive some of nature’s most deadly poisons has opened a new chapter in the laboratory of Daniel Minor Jr. https://sbgrid.org/members/tale/changing-channels… Continue Reading
Golgi localized β1-adrenergic receptors stimulate Golgi PI4P hydrolysis by PLCε to regulate cardiac hypertrophy Beta blockers are among the most widely used drugs for treating heart failure. It has long been thought that these drugs act on proteins, known as adrenergic receptors, that solely reside on cell surfaces. A… Continue Reading