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Wired Magazine Visits Shuvo Roy and The Kidney Project

UCSF School of Pharmacy
February 25, 2018
Kidney failure is a debilitating and ultimately deadly illness, and a health policy crisis. With 468,000 people on dialysis in the U.S., costing the government $31 billion dollars a year, very little money is spent on researching alternatives to current treatments. Wired magazine’s Megan Molteni visited Shuvo Roy...

Pediatric Device Consortium Holds Inaugural Pediatric Device Accelerator Pitch Competition

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
November 30, 2017
On Tuesday, November 14, the UCSF Pediatric Device Consortium (PDC) held its inaugural Pediatric Device Accelerator Pitch Competition at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. The competition awarded a total of $252,500, funded by FDA’s Office of Orphan Products Development and the UCSF Department of Surgery, to teams...
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Surgical Innovations Accelerator Projects Harness Unique Talents of MTM Student Teams

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
October 05, 2017
At the heart of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Master of Translational Medicine (MTM) program is a hands-on capstone project, where student teams work on developing medical technologies from idea to bedside. Three Surgical Innovations Accelerator projects from the Spring 2017 cycle have been selected to participate in the...

Benjamin Padilla and Michael Harrison Awarded NIH R03 for Cryoanalgesia Study

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
August 29, 2017
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Children Health & Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded pediatric surgeons Benjamin Padilla, MD , and Michael Harrison, MD , a two-year grant to study the use of cryoanalgesia as a novel method of pain control in the Nuss...

Inside Surgery Spring/Summer 2017

UCSF Department of Surgery
August 17, 2017
The Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Inside Surgery is now available online. Inside Surgery is a Department of Surgery brochure showcasing the clinical and research advances of our faculty. The edition highlights minimally invasive bariatric surgery t o treat metabolic disease, and robotic surgery deployed across a...

Isabelle Chumfong and Claire Graves Tackle Biodesign Challenges through Innovation Pathway

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
July 03, 2017
From developing sensors to detect pressure ulcers to conducting pre-clinical studies for novel magnetic therapies, Isabelle Chumfong, MEng, MD , and Claire Graves, MD took the unconventional route during their research years, electing to pursue cutting-edge research through the Innovation Pathway, one of five such...

Vascular Surgeon Tim Chuter Honored with 2017 Jacobson Innovation Award

UCSF Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
June 15, 2017
Timothy A.M. Chuter, BM BS, DM, FACS, Professor of Surgery in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, has been honored with the 2017 Jacobson Innovation Award by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) for his pioneering work, spanning many decades, in the field of endovascular aneurysm repair. Dr...

NIH Awards Department of Surgery R25 Training Grant for Biodevice Innovation

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
May 31, 2017
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) has awarded the UCSF Department of Surgery a five-year interdisciplinary R25 research education grant for its Biodevice Innovation Training Program. The grant will fund up to two surgical residents each year with an interest in pursuing...

New Collaboration Launched to Advance Technology for Children’s Health

Department of Surgery, Surgical Innovations Program
March 02, 2017
On January 12, clinicians, engineers, scientists, and administrators from UCSF, UC Berkeley. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, and Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) convened at the Mission Bay campus for the inaugural Engineering for Children’s Health Symposium. The event, reported in UCSF...

Surgical Innovations Projects Receive Top Honors at ASAIO Conference

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
November 18, 2016
A presentation by UCSF General Surgery Resident and Innovations Fellow Willieford Moses, M.D. (pictured), “Surgical Considerations for an Implantable Renal Replacement System”, was named Top Renal Abstract at the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs (ASAIO) Conference in San Francisco on June 15, 2016...

Clinical Engineers at UCSF Hack The Operating Room

UCSF Surgical Innovations Program
November 01, 2016
The UCSF Department of Surgery’s longstanding partnership with engineers to invent new medical technologies in response to patient needs was featured in a recent story by UC Berkeley journalism student Alex Orlando. The article profiles Richard Fechter , Principal Development Engineer at UCSF Medical Center and...

Fetal Surgery Stands To Advance From New Glues Inspired By Mussels

Department of Surgery, Surgical Innovations
July 08, 2016
Pediatric surgeon Michael R. Harrison, M.D. and UC Berkeley engineer Phillip Messersmith, Ph.D. are collaborating on an NIH-Funded research project to improve glues used in fetal surgery procedures, notably those used to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Dr. Harrision, widely acknolwedged as the "father of...