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David Julius, a professor of physiology at UCSF, is one of two recipients of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology. (Photo/Courtesy UCSF)
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UCSF scientist whose grandparents fled antisemitism in Czarist Russia wins Nobel Prize in medicine

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA October 4, 2021October 4, 2021

David Julius, a professor of physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, whose grandparents fled antisemitism in Czarist Russia, was awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine […]

Adam de la Zerda in his lab at Stanford University. (Photo/Norbert von der Groeben-Stanford School of Medicine)
Posted inBay Area

Stanford prof from Israel creates a fast, portable Covid test

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 24, 2021March 25, 2021
Dr. Benjamin Pinsky is the director of Stanford Medicine’s Clinical Virology Laboratory. (Photo/Steve Fisch)
Posted inNews

Q&A: This Stanford doc hunts down Covid-19 variants in California

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 12, 2021February 13, 2021
Mikael Dolsten, Pfizer's chief scientist, is a Jew from Sweden. (Photos/JTA-Pfizer and Getty Images)
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Mikael Dolsten, the Jewish immigrant leading Pfizer’s vaccine charge, hopes the US stays a melting pot

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA November 17, 2020November 17, 2020
Married couple Dean Felsher, M.D., and Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Ph.D., are both researching Covid-19 at Stanford University. (Photo/Scott Lasky Photography)
Posted inHealth

Married Stanford scientists fight Covid on two fronts: cancer and smoking

by Dan Pine November 11, 2020November 11, 2020
A researcher studies samples of the coronavirus in a state-run laboratory in Pennsylvania. (Photo/Flickr-GovernorTomWolf CC BY 2.0)
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What happens in a vaccine study? S.F. researcher breaks it down

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 9, 2020November 12, 2020
Stanford virologist Dr. Robert Siegel getting a flu shot. (Photo/Courtesy Siegel)
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Stanford virologist: Fix-everything vaccine is wishful thinking

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky November 6, 2020November 6, 2020
Scientologists protest an ADHD conference in Tel Aviv, March 2018, with signs  saying "Childhood is not a mental disease" (Photo/Katherine Ellison)
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How did Israel become the ADHD capital of the world?

Katherine Ellison by Katherine Ellison April 16, 2018
Tel Aviv University Medical School (Photo/Wikimedia-Avishai Teicher CC BY 2.5)
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Koret gives $10m for Berkeley-Stanford-Tel Aviv research collaboration

by J. Staff March 16, 2018
Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at Stanford University School of Medicine (Photo/Wikimedia)
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Stanford, Haifa hospitals announce cooperation agreement

by JTA March 12, 2018

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