Mark Moasser, MD, has sorted out why HER2, the protein driving 1 in 5 breast cancers, is so hard to drug. He explains how the findings correct a naive way of envisioning how HER2 is shaped and how it works.
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in San Diego County to employ high-intensity, focused ultrasound (HIFU) for minimally invasive prostate cancer treatment.
UC Davis Health Emergency Medicine Chair Nathan Kuppermann has received the Maureen Andrew Mentor Award from the Society for Pediatric Research, which honors one academic pediatrician annually who has an outstanding record of mentorship and leadership.
A new fund allows more families with autistic children to take part in a social skills training program at the UC Davis MIND Institute. The fund was created in honor of a local family.
UC San Diego School of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine and Stanford Medicine have launched a three-year study to investigate new ways to treat or prevent major depression, accelerate effective treatments and develop predictive models to identify which treatments work best for individual patients.
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