News & Events: Collaborations

On May 17, the Second Annual UCSF Engineering for Children's Health Symposium was held at Mission Bay Conference Center. Over one hundred clinicians, engineers, scientists, administrators, industry professionals, and government partners gathered to discuss groundbreaking research and developing technologies in pediatric medicine. The event commenced with opening remarks by Hanmin Lee, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief of the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals and Professor and Chief of the UCSF Division of Pediatric Surgery, along with Bertram Lubin, MD, Associate Dean of Children's Health at UCSF, [...]

The NHLBI Vascular Interventions/Innovations and Therapeutic Advances (VITA) Program has awarded Michael S. Conte, M.D., Professor & Chief of the Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery, a translational research grant to study the problem of vascular injury and develop prototype medical drugs and devices that effectively prevent restenosis, reduce vascular scarring, and improve vascular surgical outcomes. The grant is a collaboration between the Conte Lab and Tejal Desai, Ph.D., Director of the Therapeutic Microtechnology And Nanotechnology Laboratory and Chair of Bioengineering [...]