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Survivor On the Margins: Historic UCSF Transplant Patient and His Pioneering Surgeon

UCSF Department of Surgery
April 27, 2018
Survivor on the Margins I first noticed Richard on a Wednesday before my 8am lecture, sitting in a corner of the nursing buildingā€™s food court. Or rather, it was the first time I really noticed him, because I realized I had seen him sitting there before, looking ahead contentedly with his hands folded on the table...

Wired Magazine Visits Shuvo Roy and The Kidney Project

UCSF School of Pharmacy
February 25, 2018
Kidney failure is a debilitating and ultimately deadly illness, and a health policy crisis. With 468,000 people on dialysis in the U.S., costing the government $31 billion dollars a year, very little money is spent on researching alternatives to current treatments. Wired magazineā€™s Megan Molteni visited Shuvo Roy...

James Gardner and Nicole Conkling Awarded 2017 ASTS Research Grants

UCSF Resident Research Program
July 19, 2017
James M. Gardner, M.D., Ph.D. and Nicole Conkling, M.D. have been awarded prestigious research grants by the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) for its 2017 funding cycle. Dr. Gardner, who just completed his Chief Residency in General Surgery at UCSF and is a rising fellow in the Division of Transplant...

Holger Willenbring Receives Discovery Stage Research Projects Award from CIRM

Willenbring Lab
July 08, 2017
Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD is the receipient of a Discovery Stage Research Project award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The project " Preclinical development of AAV vector-mediated in vivo hepatic reprogramming of myofibroblasts as a therapy for liver fibrosis" was approved for $1...
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Moving Mountains - A Surgeonā€™s Fight to Legalize HIV-to-HIV Organ Transplants

UCSF Transplant Surgery
June 26, 2017
President Barack Obama signs the HOPE Act legislation in November 2013. Peter Stock (far left) had earlier testified before Congress in support of the legislation, which overturned a federal ban on HIV-to-HIV transplants. Photo by Evan Vucci UCSF News reports on the epic battle, led by UCSF transplant surgeon...

NIH Awards Department of Surgery T32 Training Grant for Transplant Surgery

UCSF Department of Surgery
January 06, 2017
The NIH has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a T32 training grant , ā€œFilling a Void of Research Training for Transplant Surgeonsā€ (FAVOR). The grant, awarded in August 2016, provides annual funding in the amount of $156,602 for in-depth training of three general surgery residents with an interest in...

Researchers Convert Cirrhosis-Causing Cells to Healthy Liver Cells in Mice

Willenbring Lab
June 03, 2016
UCSF News reports on the research of the Willenbring Lab and others demonstrating in mice that healthy new liver cells could be generated within the organ itself, thus making engraftment unnecessary. The article noted that the very cells that drive liver disease were converted, thereby reducing liver damage and...

Drug Provides Better Kidney Transplant Survival Rates Than Current Standard Of Care

UCSF Transplant Surgery
January 28, 2016
UCSF News reports on a clinical trial, BENEFIT (Belatacept Evaluation of Nephroprotection and Efficacy as First-line Immunosuppression Trial) where for the first time, an immunosuppressive agent, Belatacept, showed better organ survival in kidney transplant recipients than a calcineurin inhibitor, the current...

New AASLD Video Showcases UCSF Liver Transplant Program

UCSF Transplant Surgery
December 20, 2014
A new video on AASLD TV (American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases) features the UCSF Liver Transplant Program and faculty John P. Roberts, M.D. , Norah A. Terrault, M.D., M.P.H. and Francis Y.K. Yao, M.D. A s a leader in the treatment of liver disease and transplantation, UCSF has performed more than 2...