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Disrupted osteocyte connectivity and pericellular fluid flow in bone with aging and defective TGF-β signaling

Bone fragility increases with age as the result of the concurrent decline of bone mass, quality, and mechanosensitivity. While the coordinated decline of these behaviors remains unexplained, the role of osteocytes in each of these processes and the age-related degeneration of the lacunocanalicular...

Dr. Tamara Alliston to be inducted into medical and biological engineering elite

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Tamara Alliston, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco to its College of Fellows. Dr. Alliston was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and...

Millie Hughes-Fulford, the First Woman Scientist in Space, Dies at 75

Millie Hughes-Fulford, PhD, a UC San Francisco scientist who flew in June 1991 aboard the first space shuttle mission dedicated to biomedical studies, died Feb. 2 at the age of 75. She was the first woman to fly as a NASA payload specialist and was part of the first crew to include three women.

Coleen Sabatini, MD, MPH appointed Vice Chair of Health Equity and Academic Affairs

The UCSF Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery is pleased to announce that Coleen Sabatini, MD, MPH has been appointed as the Vice Chair of Health Equity and Academic Affairs.

Lindsey Criswell Named Director of National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

Lindsey A. Criswell, MD, MPH, DSc, vice chancellor of research at UC San Francisco, has been selected as the next director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), one of 27 institutes and centers that comprise the National Institutes of Health (NIH)....