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Celebrating Match Day 2025!
UCSF Department of Surgery
March 24, 2025
The Department of Surgery is thrilled to introduce our new General Surgery, Plastic Surgery, and Integrated Vascular Surgery residents for 2025-2026! We proudly welcome these talented future surgeons to UCSF Surgery and congratulate each new intern for matching into our programs. We look forward to welcoming our...
Breakthrough Achievements in Lung Transplants: 95 Procedures, Top Rankings, and Groundbreaking Research
UCSF Department of Surgery
January 11, 2024
In a historic feat, UCSF Medical Center concludes the year with an unprecedented 95 lung transplants, a remarkable milestone for the medical community. The institution's outstanding achievements have solidified its position as a leader in lung transplantation, garnering recognition nationally and regionally. For...
Sandy Feng, MD, PhD Recipient of 2020 AST Clinical Science Established Investigator Award
UCSF Department of Surgery
July 01, 2020
Sandy Feng, M.D., Ph.D. , Professor of Surgery and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Surgery, has been named the 2020 recipient of the Clinical Science Established Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation (AST). The award is made to a senior clinical scientist who has made...
Urine Test Can Detect Likelihood of Kidney Transplant Rejection
UCSF News Services
April 06, 2020
Noninvasive Test More Than 95 Percent Accurate, UCSF Researchers Say A simple urine test can diagnose and predict acute rejection in kidney transplants, leading to an opportunity for earlier detection and treatment, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. A test of 601 urine samples showed...
Nature News Feature: How Artificial Kidneys and Miniaturized Dialysis Could Save Millions of Lives
Nature News Feature
March 17, 2020
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have bypassed external devices and instead focused on developing a kidney prototype that they hope will one day be surgically implanted into a patientâs body. It wouldnât require a pump because it...
UCSF Surgical Innovations Team Reports Clinical Milestone in Development of Implantable Bioartificial Kidney at Kidney Week 2019
UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
December 16, 2019
The Kidney Project, a national effort to develop an implantable bioartificial kidney that could eliminate the need for dialysis, announced a key milestone in a November 7 presentation at the American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week 2019 conference in Washington, DC. The project team reported that UC San...
James M. Gardner, MD, PhD Awarded Appointment to Prestigious Physician-Scientist Scholar Program
UCSF Division of Transplant Surgery
July 15, 2019
James M. Gardner, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Division of Transplant Surgery, has been awarded an appointment to the prestigious Physician-Scientist Scholar Program (PSSP), part of the UCSF Sandler Fellows Program. All of the Departments in the University are invited to nominate candidates...
Dr. Minnie M. Sarwal Named Co-Principal Investigator on Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, "A Comprehensive Single Cell Atlas of the Human Kidney"
Sarwal Lab
June 24, 2019
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) announced $68 million in funding to support the Human Cell Atlas and its selection of 38 collaborative science teams to launch CZIâs Seed Networks for a Human Cell Atlas projects. These collaborative groups bring together scientists, computational biologists, software...
Yvonne Kelly, MD Awarded Jon Fryer Resident Scientist Scholarship by American Society of Transplant Surgeons
Tang Lab
June 21, 2019
Yvonne Kelly, MD has been awarded the prestigious Jon Fryer Resident Scientist Scholarship by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) for 2019-2020. The award was presented at the 2019 American Transplant Congress earlier this month in Boston, Massachusetts. The scholarship is supported by the ASTS...
Joyce Trompeta Ph.D., PNP Awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant from U.S. State Department
UCSF Department of Surgery
June 18, 2019
Joyce A. Trompeta, Ph.D., PNP, Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant from the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs / Japan-United States Educational Commission. Dr. Trompeta will examine the organ donation and transplantation...
Diverse Group of Researchers Help Pioneer Novel Approach to Treating Type 1 Diabetes Using Pancreatic Islets and Parathyroid Gland Co-Transplantation
UCSF News Services
June 13, 2019
Researcher of the Month: Peter Stock, MD, PhD As a pivotal figure in HIV-to-HIV organ transplantation and its legalization through the passage of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act , transplant surgeon Peter G. Stock, MD., PhD. , continues to strive toward breakthroughs in research. While Stock is mostly known...
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Awards Dr. Peter Stock $11M Grant to Conduct Clinical Trial for Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes
Stem Cellar, The Official Blog of CIRM, California's Stem Cell Agency
May 23, 2019
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $11.08 Million to Dr. Peter Stock at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct a clinical trial for treatment of Type 1 Diabetes (T1D)... The trial will be using parathyroid glands to aid in the success and viability of the...
The Kidney Project Earns Kidneyx Award to Make Home Dialysis Better for Patients
UCSF School of Pharmacy
May 02, 2019
As one of 15 inaugural winners of the KidneyX Redesign Dialysis Phase I competition, announced April 29, 2019 in Washington DC, a team led by UCSF's Shuvo Roy, PhD, and VUMC nephrologist William Fissell, MD, will receive $75,000 to accelerate the development of their proposed implantable dialysis device. More...
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...
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. ImmunoâXXâ 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...