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Diabetes Center People  Jeffrey A. Bluestone, Ph.D. Diabetes Center and The Immune Tolerance NetworkAW and Mary Clausen Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.
Photo (c) danheller.com, http://www.danheller.com/ [Read More ...] | Diabetes Center News Latest News! May 28, 2009 Michael McManus, PhD is UCSF’s resident expert in microRNAs, the so called “dark matter” of the genome that are the tiny “switches” that control most of the genes in the body... May 28, 2009 At a recent UCSF stem cell gathering, Diabetes Center Director Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD compared the effort of transforming stem cells to beta cells to a coast-to-coast road trip from San Francisco to New York... May 28, 2009 UCSF jumped to second place among recipients of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research support last year, trailing only Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore... April 03, 2009 The Diabetes Center at UCSF is proud of its partnership with diabetes researchers and clinicians across all UCSF campuses, hospitals and research centers. These complementary “neighborhoods” are helping to drive research in numerous directions... April 03, 2009 Dr. Larry Fisher is on a quest to learn who and why some type 2 patients experience affective and anxiety disorders, depressive affect and diabetes-related distress over time – and some do not. April 03, 2009 Thanks to the generosity of Bobbie and Mike Wilsey who helped to create a clinical fellowship at UCSF, Dr. Bonnie Kimmel is nearing completion of an extraordinary year serving as the first UCSF Wilsey Fellow. March 02, 2009 Researchers at the Barbara Davis Center in Denver have identified a fourth autoantibody to help predict type 1 diabetes, ZnT8... March 02, 2009 We are proud to announce that the Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is honoring two distinguished UCSF pediatric endocrinologists, Dr. Steve Gitelman... December 19, 2008 Qizhi Tang, PhD and her colleagues have known through animal studies that diabetes is caused by an imbalance in the number of immune cell populations – effector “bad” T cells increase while regulatory “good” T cells decrease... December 19, 2008 UCSF Pediatric Diabetes Program Director Steve Gitelman, MD has partnered with the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN) to launch a study involving ATG , or anti-thymocyte globulin, to see if this drug can halt the progression of new onset type 1 diabetes. December 19, 2008 Diabetes Center researcher and San Francisco General Hospital endocrinologist Feroz Papa, MD, PhD is fascinated with the emergency care that is provided by a cell’s endoplasmic reticulum (ER) – coincidentally the same abbreviation and even the same fu November 25, 2008 The immune system is a powerful defensive weapon the body uses to identify and destroy invading organisms like bacteria and viruses. The cells of the immune system constantly patrol the body looking for such invaders... November 04, 2008 Listen to UCSF Science Café’s podcast of Dr. Matthias Hebrok’s interview on “Regenerating Cells to Treat Diabetes”... October 21, 2008 San Francisco, CA (October 20, 2008) – Hélène Bour-Jordan, Ph.D. and Mark S. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.—researchers at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) Diabetes Center—were recently awarded a scientific research grant by The Neuropathy August 08, 2008 A complete online diabetes self-management education program, www.deo.ucsf.edu, has been launched by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Diabetes Teaching Center. August 01, 2008 When the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) launched their prestigious Scholar Award back in 2006, little did we know that three of our faculty members would be among the first honored. Jeffrey Bluestone PhD was recently awarded... July 24, 2008 Mark Anderson, MD, PhD and his lab at UCSF have been examining the genetic control of autoimmune diseases to better understand how the body recognizes self from non-self – and why the body attacks its own insulin-producing beta cells in type 1 diabetes. July 24, 2008 Previous research has defined diabetes distress as a condition where patients become stressed about being able to manage their disease, obtaining the support they need, managing the emotional burden of diabetes, and accessing needed care. July 11, 2008 A new educational website for type 2 diabetes, launched July 2nd, 2008, provides critically important diabetes education for individuals with diabetes and their family members. Joining the revised type 1 website... June 25, 2008 In the United States, Western Europe and developing countries, type 2 diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions. It is now understood that the disease is part of a larger complex of disorders termed the "metabolic syndrome"... Quick Links The seminar is held every Thursday from 4:00 PM at HSW 1057. UCSF is actively recruiting volunteers for Type 1 & Type 2 diabetes trials Our scientists and clinicians Graduate and postgraduate positions Subscribe to our newsletter! Diabetes Teaching Center Information Make an appointment Donate to the Diabetes Center | |
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