UC San Francisco is embarking on a bold initiative to catch cancer in its earliest forms and prevent it from progressing. Led by Margaret Tempero, MD, the new Cancer Early Detection and Interception initiative aims to detect and halt cancer before it takes root and spreads, potentially reducing the often-severe toll of the disease. [read more]

The first set of roughly four million internal documents from e-cigarette maker Juul Labs is now available through the libraries of UCSF and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funded by various agencies across UCSF, the awards span a range of topics from telomere maintenance in pediatric brain tumors to the use of a novel imaging modality to assess metastatic kidney cancer.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Mini-Grants

The Office of DEIA is offering four types of mini-grants to Cancer Center faculty, staff, and trainees. Apply by March 15.

Postdoc Travel Grants

The Office of Education and Training is offering travel grants for postdocs working in labs of Cancer Center Members. Apply by March 28.

Ajay Maker, MD, FACS, FSSO has been appointed to the position of Surgeon in Chief for the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Learn more.

Nynikka Palmer, DrPH, MPH was elected vice president of research for the Academy of Communication in Healthcare. 

Jaysón Davidson was named among the first cohort of Upstream Research Scholars.

Larry Fong, MD, Rahul Aggarwal, MD, and Michael Evans, PhD were awarded a grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project, “Combining immunotherapy with molecularly targeted radiation therapy.”

Elad Ziv, MD was awarded a grant from the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute for a project, “Evaluating the clinical implications for ACKR1/DARC associated neutropenia.” 

Philip T. Pauerstein, MD, PhD, with his sponsor Wendell A. Lim, PhD, received a Damon Runyon–St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship. Learn more.

Alameda Health Systems Foundation, in collaboration with UCSF and Umoja Health, received a Gilead Toward Health Equity Oncology Grant (THE Oncology Grant).

Congratulations to the recent recipients of 2023 Prostate Cancer Program Research Pilot Awards!

Schwartz CJ, Khorsandi N, Blanco A, Mukhtar RA, Chen YY, Krings G. Clinicopathologic and genetic analysis of invasive breast carcinomas in women with germline CHEK2 variants. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2024 Feb;204(1):171-179. doi: 10.1007/s10549-023-07176-8. Epub 2023 Dec 13.

Andemeskel G, Palmer NR, Pasick R, Van Blarigan EL, Kenfield SA, Graff RE, Shaw M, Yu W, Sanchez M, Hernandez R, Washington SL 3rd, Shariff-Marco S, Rhoads KF, Chan JM. Engaging communities to inform the development of a diverse cohort of cancer survivors: formative research for the eat move sleep study (EMOVES). Res Involv Engagem. 2023 Dec 11;9(1):117.

Lin JJ, Evans EM, Praxedes K, Agrawal AK, Winestone LE. Financial assistance and other financial coping strategies after a pediatric cancer diagnosis. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2024 Feb 1:e30890.

Shaheen H, Salans MA, Mohamad O, Coleman PW, Ahmed S, Roach M 3rd. Age 70 +/- 5 Years and Cancer-Specific Outcomes After Treatment of Localized Prostate Cancer: A Systematic Review. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2024 Mar 1;118(3):672-681.

The HDFCCC Office of Community Engagement, in collaboration with Oakland Unified School District's Life Academy High School, recently participated in a health careers fair. Our community health educators talked with students about how health educators spread cancer prevention and screening information, and resources so that our communities can be informed and healthy. Engagement methods included lecture, discussion, visual aids, and the game Kahoot to reinforce cancer education content.

Submit Your Feedback: DEIA Needs Assessment

The Office of DEIA is conducting a needs assessment within the Cancer Center's marginalized community. Please fill out this brief 5 min survey to help us understand the needs of our Cancer Center community so we can appropriately allocate funding, staff effort, and institutional support.

March 6: International Women's Day Lecture: Gender Equity and Leadership in the 21st Century Through the Lens of Mindsets

Dr. Laura Kray (Berkeley Haas School of Business) will present her research which seeks to debunk popular myths about the gender pay gap and to identify solutions to gender inequality in the workplace.

Feb 16: Cancer Center Friday Seminar in Basic and Translational Research

Meeki Lad, MPH (UCSF Aghi Lab) will present, "Glioblastoma induces the recruitment and differentiation of hybrid neutrophils from skull marrow."

Feb 17: Living with Melanoma Symposium

This hybrid symposium is presented by AIM at Melanoma and the UC Melanoma & Skin Cancer Consortium.

Feb 21: Breast Oncology Program Seminar

Bruce Mann, PhD (University of Melbourne) will present, "PROSPECT Study: Lessons Learned and Next Steps for Tailoring Therapy in the Early Stage Setting."

Feb 28: Cancer Center Live Series on Poor Prognosis GI Malignancies

This virtual CME event features presentations by Drs. Andrew Ko, Mohamed Adam, and Robin "Katie" Kelley.

Feb 29: Town Hall on Vaccine for Cancer Prevention in Lynch Syndrome

Aparajita Singh, MD, MPH, will lead a virtual presentation on the upcoming clinical trial for a Lynch Syndrome vaccine.

March 6: McCormick Lab Seminar ft. William R. Sellers, MD

William R. Sellers, MD (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute) will present, "Context-specific activation lethality in cancer and identifying substrates of E3 ligases."

March 22-23: Pediatric Precision Medicine Cancer Care Summit

Co-hosted by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, this summit will explore the latest advances in precision medicine and how they are reshaping the landscape of pediatric cancer care and research.