Genentech, UCSF discovery pact

Genentech, Inc

How did it start? It began in 1976 with a meeting over a glass of beer between Bob Swanson, then a bright young venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer (UCSF), who with Stan Cohen (Stanford) had just performed some of the key experiments of recombinant DNA technology. The meeting is now immortalized in a brass statue in the new Founders’ Research Center. Genentech was founded later that year, and cl...

UCSF Departments at ZSFG

Photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT).

Whereas the photodynamic therapy (PDT) of cancer has recently shown rapid clinical acceptance, photodynamic antimicrobial chemotherapy (PACT)--which predates the related cancer regimen--is not widely appreciated. Like PDT, PACT utilizes photosensitizers and visible or ultraviolet light in order to give a phototoxic response, normally via oxidative damage. Currently, the major use of PACT is in ...

Support and Resources for Students at UCSF

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Teen girl pregnancy pact?

Few recent stories about teen pregnancy have been so compelling as the item that surfaced in June 2008 in Time magazine, and was then zoomed around the world’s media post haste. The location is Gloucester, Massachusetts – America’s oldest seaport. The venue is Gloucester High School. The protagonists are a 17-strong group of girls, aged 14–16 years, who over the past calendar year have become p...