Statement of Keith R. Yamamoto, PhD Vice Chancellor, Science Policy and Strategy Director, UCSF Precision Medicine Professor, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology University of California, San Francisco Before the Subcommittee on
Type 1 diabetes, formally known as juvenile diabetes, is a disease characterized by the inability of patients to produce their own insulin hormone. It currently afflicts an estimated three million
Dr. Louis Staudt. Dr. Staudt of the National Cancer Institute discusses precision medicine in cancer and the goal of saving lives by getting the right drug to the right patient,
Dr. Allan Basbaum, a world renowned researcher who studies the fundamental mechanisms that contribute to the development of chronic pain, discusses the different types of chronic pain and the recent
Envision a day when we load a computer chip with medicine and implant it in a patient’s body, then that medicine goes right to the gene or tumor site. Science
Remember the ice bucket challenge? Did you, like millions of Americans, dump cold water on your head to help raise funds for research into ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)? Since the
It turns out, they like us, or so they say. Biomedical researchers should take note that for the second year in a row, U.S. Senate appropriators have declared funding the
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