2019 Kavli Faculty Service Award

Congratulations to Kira Poskanzer for winning this award!

The Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience (Kavli IFN) is a central organizing force for neuroscience research at UCSF and our partner institutions Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Lawrence Livermore National Lab

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Joe DeRisi, Elected to the National Academy of Medicine!

The accolades continue.. Three UC San Francisco faculty members are among the 70 new members and nine international members elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. Congrats Joe!

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Bold & Basic Grant Awarded to Reiter, Raleigh & Poskanzer

QBI held a competition to give away 1.1 million dollars for bold ideas and basic research in cancer and psychiatry. Four grants and four fellowships were awarded to the best collaborative ideas that merged both basic and clinical research. Jeremy Reiter and David Raleigh proposed a bold idea in cancer: How fats cause cancer: Lipids in the primary cilium activate oncogenic Hedgehog signaling.

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