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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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...

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 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...

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...

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, 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...

The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators presented seven Department of Surgery faculty with the Excellence in Teaching Award for 2017 at a ceremony on September 11th at the UCSF School of Nursing, held in conjunction with the Academy's induction of new members. The Academy's Excellence in Teaching Awards...