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UC Research on AIDS, Cancer
and Tobacco-Related Diseases |
The University of California's role in health research
and the prevention and treatment of disease includes programs that
target high-priority health issues in California — HIV/AIDS,
breast cancer and tobacco-related disease — which are responsible
for substantial human suffering and staggering financial costs.
Systemwide Research
Many of these efforts are guided by UC's
Special Research Programs Office, which awards research grants
to enhance understanding of the causes of these diseases and develop
more effective approaches to preventing and treating them. Funded
research covers a wide range of disciplines, including public health,
public policy, law, epidemiology, clinical and behavioral medicine
and biomedical research in cellular and molecular biology, immunology,
pathology and virology.
HIV / AIDS Research and Treatment
In 1981, UC physicians identified the first cases of "newly
acquired immunodeficiency" — later called AIDS —
in four previously healthy gay men. UC researchers and medical staff
have been leaders in the study and treatment of HIV/AIDS ever since.
Universitywide AIDS
Research Program
UCLA
AIDS Institute
San Diego AIDS Institute
San Francisco AIDS
Research Institute
San Francisco
AIDS Health Project
San
Francisco AIDS Education and Training Center
San Francisco Positive
Health Program
California/Mexico
AIDS Initiative
California HIV Prevention Indicators
Cancer Research and Treatment
UC researchers and medical staff are dedicated to four fundamental
pursuits: basic science research into the causes and events of cancer's
progression; clinical research to translate new knowledge into viable
treatments; sensitive, state-of-the-art patient care; and programs
in epidemiology, prevention, and cancer control. Basic scientists
and clinical health care providers work together toward the translation
of promising ideas into the creation of new and better treatments
for cancer patients everywhere.
California
Breast Cancer Research Program
Berkeley
Cancer Research Laboratory
Davis
Cancer Center
Irvine
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los
Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
San Diego Moores
Comprehensive Cancer Center
San Francisco Comprehensive
Cancer Center
San
Francisco Cancer Resource Center
UC Cancer Research
Coordinating Committee
IMPACT provides
high-quality prostate cancer treatment to
uninsured or under-insured Californian
men. Regional sites
are open at UCLA, UCSF and UC Davis
with ones at
Irvine, San Diego and elsewhere around
the state to follow.
National
Cancer Institute
Additional research in related areas is also conducted
in various departments on UC campuses. Visit this site's Physical
and Biological Sciences page for more campus links.
Tobacco-Related
Disease Research
UC's Tobacco-Related
Disease Research Program focuses on the prevention, causes and
treatment of tobacco-related disease and the reduction of the human
and economic costs of tobacco use in California. The program funds
research addressing all aspects of tobacco use and supports new
scientific infrastructures and networks critical for a comprehensive
approach to tobacco control.
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TobaccoScam,
a new UC web site, targets a 20-year, multi-million dollar effort
by the tobacco industry to manipulate restaurants as political fronts
to defeat local and state smoke-free measures. As a direct result
of these efforts, restaurant and other hospitality employees are
exposed to more dangerous concentrations of secondhand smoke than
any other group.
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