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The Cool Campus Challenge is a friendly competition to motivate and reward staff, faculty and students for reducing their carbon footprints and to help the UC system reach its Carbon Neutrality goals by 2025.
First-year pharmacy student Helen Hou creates art that communicates patients' emotions to caregivers and community.
Use of CT scans of the chest for hospital emergency-room patients with blunt trauma could be reduced by more than one-third without compromising detection of major injury, concludes a new study led by a UCSF physician.
UCSF has long valued its spirit of innovation and collaboration, and that ethos will be key to strengthening its impact on the health, economy and intellectual vitality of our local and global community, Chancellor Sam Hawgood said Tuesday.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded seven grants to UCSF scientists to pursue innovative approaches to major contemporary challenges in biomedical research.
Adolescents and adults under 40 who have been successfully treated for cancer are at heightened risk of developing a second unrelated cancer, on average 15 years later, according to a study.
Window washers dressed as Batman, Superwoman and other fearless superheroes scaled the walls of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco on Sept. 28 to brighten our patients' day.
For the second year in the row, UCSF has received a Silver from Healthy Mothers Workplace Award that recognizes San Francisco organizations that support parental leave, lactation accommodations and work-family balance.
Building on the success of the Health eHeart Study at UCSF, the National Institutes of Health has awarded $9.75 million to UCSF over the next five years for creation of Health ePeople.
A virus is nature’s efficient little killer. They’re really good at what they do, and we’ve been able to harness their skills to learn about – and potentially improve – human health in several ways.
UCSF celebrates the diversity of its campus community during Diversity Month, with events held throughout the month of October.
A newly established neuroscience research institute based at UCSF will focus on gaining a deeper understanding of plasticity, the brain’s remarkable capacity to modify its own structure and function.
Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, will highlight four themes that have emerged as priorities during his State of the University Address on Tuesday, Oct. 6.
Dramatic increases in exposure to toxic chemicals in the last four decades are threatening human reproduction and health, according to the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO).
Two decades after a UCSF researcher proposed that reducing nicotine in cigarettes as a national regulatory policy might facilitate quitting, a new study he co-authored has added to a body of evidence that indicates that doing just that may accomplish this goal.
UCSF-led scientists completed a proof-of-principle study on a real-time blood test based on DNA sequencing that can be used to rapidly diagnose Ebola and other acute infections.
This fall, UCSF welcomes nearly 1,000 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.
An international research team led by UC San Francisco scientists has identified 65 genes that play a role in autism, 28 of which are reported with “very high confidence.”
UCSF researchers have engineered a molecular “on switch” that allows tight control over the actions of T cells, immune system cells that have shown great potential as therapies for cancer.
Before returning home to pursue her PhD in sociology at UCSF, Rashon Lane had one last mission across the globe: go to Africa to help understand the Ebola epidemic.
Researchers at UCSF have succeeded in mapping the genetic signature of a unique group of stem cells in the human brain that seem to generate most of the neurons in our massive cerebral cortex.
UCSF scientists describe capturing and studying individual metastatic cells from human breast cancer tumors implanted into mice as the cells escaped into the blood stream and began to form tumors elsewhere in the body.