Blocking LFA-1 activation with lovastatin prevents graft-versus-host disease in mouse bone marrow transplantation.

Congratulations to our SPOT Awardees!

Congratulations to Rita Archakova, Elaine Chow, Andrea Gonzalez, Landon Haller, Mary Tran, Thomas Yu, Sarah Bronstein, Caroline Ziesmer, and Izabel Pisikyan for receiving the UCSF School of Medicine STAR Program SPOT Award! The SPOT Award recognizes significant employee achievements and contributions, as they occur, for a specific project or task over a relatively short period of time. A SPOT Award lets employees know that someone has noticed their noteworthy contribution. 

Identification of two APOBEC3F splice variants displaying HIV-1 antiviral activity and contrasting sensitivity to Vif.

Developing reliable dietary guidelines.

Malnutrition impairs alveolar fluid clearance in rat lungs.

Ionic control of 1,25-dihydroxy vitamin D-3 production by isolated chick renal mitochondria. Influence of anions and sucrose.

MicroRNA function in NK-cell biology.

Depressive symptoms and subjective and objective sleep in community-dwelling older women.

No evidence of sexual risk compensation in the iPrEx trial of daily oral HIV preexposure prophylaxis.

Cardiac troponin I directly binds and inhibits mitochondrial ATP synthase with a noncanonical role in the post-ischemic heart.

In the clinic. Travel medicine.

Profiling the Essential Nature of Lipid Metabolism in Asexual Blood and Gametocyte Stages of Plasmodium falciparum.

Welcome VA DGIM Clinician-Educator Dr. Sara-Megumi Naylor

Dr. Sara-Megumi Naylor starts this week in Medical Practice.  She was a resident and chief resident at UCLA and on staff for two years at the West LA VA in primary care where she won several ambulatory teaching awards.  We are really excited to welcome her to our staff!

Increased DNA microarray hybridization specificity using sscDNA targets.

Upper airway gene expression differentiates COVID-19 from other acute respiratory illnesses and reveals suppression of innate immune responses by SARS-CoV-2.