Julia Busiek

1 month ago | universityofcalifornia.edu | Chris Hall |Alexander Kim |Julia Busiek |Cheyenne Matyac

So even though she was walking into the field in 2020 just as so many experienced nurses were walking out of it, Matyac stayed. It helped that her first year in the workforce was spent in a new graduate residency program, designed to flatten the daunting learning curve. She worked closely with designated, more experienced nurses on her floor, who supervised her learning and gradually introduced her to more complicated cases as her skills and confidence grew.

Feb 26, 2025 | universityofcalifornia.edu | Dan Kaufman |Julia Busiek

James Allison, who for 20 years was a UC Berkeley immunologist conducting fundamental research on cancer, is now at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Much recent cancer research has sought to expand the field of immune therapy, which aims to boost our body’s natural defenses to attack cancer, instead of poisoning cancer with chemotherapy.