The American Association of Immunologists proudly announced the 2022 recipients of AAI Awards for Outstanding Research and Career Achievements, including the AAI-Steinman Award for Human Immunology Research to Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD, "for significant, sustained achievement in immunology research pertinent to human disease pathogenesis, prevention, or therapy."
The second cohort of scientists to be named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators have been announced, including Mark Anderson, MD, PhD and Michael McManus, PhD, who will receive $1 million in unrestricted gift funds over a nonrenewable 5-year term, beginning in March.
The Annual Grodsky award, supported by Diabetes Center at UCSF, was presented at the Western Region Islet Study Group (WRISG) meeting this year to Steve Kahn, MB, ChB, Director of University of Washington Diabetes Research Center, whose talk was “Clinical Observations and Science: Including Some Lessons Gerry Taught Me.” Present with Gerold Grodsky and Steve Kahn was Lori Sussel, Director of Basic and Translational Research at the Barbara Davis Center for Diabetes at University of Colorado.
Arabella Young PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in Bluestone lab, was recently named a UC President's Lindau Nobel Meeting Fellow for 2021—along with four other esteemed peers from UCSF, out of thirty students across all ten UC Campuses—who were nominated based on demonstrated excellence and engagement in their field of research, enthusiastic support from advisers and mentors, and evidence of their commitment to interdisciplinary scientific work.
The FDA Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee has recommended for approval Teplizumab, a humanized anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody shown in a randomized clinical trial to delay development of type 1 diabetes in children as young as age 8 years after a single 14-day course of the drug.
Adélaïde Bernard, a graduate student in the Metabolic Biology program at UC Berkeley at Vaisse lab in Diabetes Center, was awarded first place in the 2021 Berkeley Grad Slam for her presentation titled, "Hungry Unicorns: How Antennas in Your Neurons Control Appetite," also placing third in the UC wide
We are learning how immune cells naturally clear the body of senescent cells that contribute to aging and many chronic diseases. Understanding this process may open new ways of treating age-related chronic diseases with immunotherapy.
Diabetes Center's James Lee, MD, has been named a recipient of the 2021 Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy Early Career Researchers awards, along with five other exceptional scholars from UCSF, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, and Memorial Sloan Kettering, receiving in total almost $3 million of funding. The goal of the program is to empower ambitious researchers to pursue their boldest ideas to transform the immunotherapy and cell and gene therapy landscape for cancer patients.
UCSF has a bold vision to create a first-of-its-kind clinical diagnostic center that will advance precision diabetes research. The goal is to provide a central resource for families with type 1 diabetes and other heritable immunological conditions to receive personalized care and genetic counseling. This crucial multi-disciplinary effort will work to unravel the mysteries behind complex immunological disorders and exemplifies the translational research, from bench lab to bedside, being conducted by UCSF’s clinician-scientists across the campuses.
