Michael V. Drake, UCSF Alum and Former Faculty Member, Named Next UC President
The University of California Board of Regents announced the appointment of Michael V. Drake, M.D., as the 21st president of UC’s world-renowned system.
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Give to UCSFThe University of California Board of Regents announced the appointment of Michael V. Drake, M.D., as the 21st president of UC’s world-renowned system.
As part of the Parnassus Heights campus, the new hospital will strengthen UCSF’s world-renowned clinical, research and training mission.
A new study by UCSF researchers identified a surprising way that the brain’s immune cells help to form new memories.
In 2020, as the world faces another new virus stoking fear and uncertainty, San Francisco may be uniquely up to the challenge. Strong ties between UCSF, local government agencies and community groups, forged in the fire of the AIDS epidemic, and a deep bench of infectious disease expertise, has helped the city flatten the curve and better understand this new disease.
With the COVID-19 pandemic, travel this year will be different from years past.
Colleagues are mourning the passing of Zena Werb, PhD, a giant in the field of cancer biology whose four decades of research at UCSF informed the rise of immunotherapy and other modern approaches to cancer treatment.
Dozens of UCSF infectious disease experts will present at the bi-annual International AIDS Conference, known this year as AIDS 2020.
The declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic in March resulted in a rapid decrease in step counts worldwide.
Bertram Lubin, former president and chief executive officer of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on June 27, 2020.