Skip to main content

University of California San Francisco

Visit UCSF News Center Give to UCSF
Home
Search
Choose what type of search to perform

Magazine Main Menu

  • Home
  • Features
    • Science
    • Health
    • Human Interest
  • Insights
    • Mythbuster
    • Medical Mystery
    • Recommended: Books, Videos, Podcasts
  • Voices
    • Perspectives
    • Ask the Expert
    • Alumni Stories
  • All Issues
    • Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2022”. Text below reads “A Touch of Nobel-ity: The prize-winning science illuminating heat, touch, pain, itch, and much, much more”. Illustration of a hand with various stimuli on it, including a fire, ice, mosquito, a feather, a snake, chile peppers, itch, pain, and a kiss.
      Latest Issue
  • Popular

    • Why Can’t I Sleep?
    • What You Didn’t Learn in School about Sexual Health
    • Your Immune System Could Turn COVID-19 Deadly
  • Collections

    • Combating Coronavirus
    • Brain Health
    • Health Equity
  • Visit UCSF News Center
    Give to UCSF
Portrait of Biftu Mengesha

Health Summer 2022

Preparing for a Post-Roe America

What happens once abortion is illegal in half the country?

Illustration of the front of a hand with various stimuli on it, including a fire, ice, mosquito, a feather, a snake, chili peppers, itch, pain, and a kiss.

Science Summer 2022

The Nobel-Winning Discoveries Illuminating How We Sense the World

C.A. De Naissance throws a punch in swimsuit, cap, and goggles.

Health Summer 2022

Get Back in the Game

Photo illustration of a dark skinned hand; around the hand are arrows and examples of skin conditions.

Health Summer 2022

Training the Eye to See Disease On Dark Skin

Insights & Advice

Illustration of a silhouette of a human head. Inside a person walks through a keyhole shaped door.

Ask the Expert Winter 2022

Can This Controversial New Drug Curb Alzheimer’s Disease?

It’s complicated, but for some patients, there’s reason to be optimistic about aducanumab.

Portrait of Gina Intinarelli-Shuler

Ask the Expert Summer 2022

The Nation Needs Nurses Now

Gina Intinarelli-Shuler shares how UCSF is handling the nursing shortage, which is hammering hospitals everywhere.

An origami bird and bee.

Health Winter 2022

What You Didn’t Learn in School about Sexual Health

UCSF experts share their favorite science-based, judgment-free tips.

Illustration of a life preserver floating on the surface of calm waters; below the surface the water is murky and filled with “toxic” items like a microwave, perfume bottle, and house cleaner.

Mythbuster Summer 2022

Detoxing: Can You Buy Your Way to Better Health?

Find out whether there are smarter ways to spend your time and money.

Combating Coronavirus

Three photo portraits of a woman are woven together. Portrait 1: the woman wears a face mask and shield. Portrait 2: the woman wears a lab coat. Portrait 3: the woman wears everyday clothes.

Science Winter 2022

An All-Out Quest to Understand Long COVID

A concerted research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.

3-D illustration of a man surrounded by a sphere of immune cells and antibodies, resembling a coronavirus.

Science Summer 2021

Your Immune System Could Turn COVID-19 Deadly

Could hidden autoimmunity explain why the disease makes some people deathly sick but not others?

Illustration of a person using a handheld nebulizer inhaler; SARS-CoV-2 cells are floating in the background and bubble surround some of their ACE2 receptors.

Science Winter 2021

Two Billion Nanobodies. One Global Pandemic. Go.

A UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus.

Portrait of F.T. Kola.

Perspectives Summer 2020

How I Survived COVID-19

Writer F.T. Kola recounts her battle with COVID-19 and its aftermath.

Illustration of three people in a row; two hold umbrellas and one does not; COVID symbols rain down from clouds, hitting the person not holding an umbrella.

Ask the Expert Winter 2021

How Can We Be Sure the New COVID-19 Vaccines Are Safe?

We asked several UCSF experts for a personal take on what will convince them that a vaccine is safe.

Vida Ahyong, Joe DeRisi, and Emily Crawford in face masks, lab coats, and gloves.

Human Interest Summer 2020

How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

As the nation’s testing regime floundered, one research team sprang into action.


 

Alumni Stories

Read more

Illustrated portrait of Cleavon Gilman
  • Alumni Stories
  • Summer 2022

The Man Who Would Not Be Silenced

ER physician Cleavon Gilman, MD ’16, fought – and won – battles against poverty, a speech defect, and Iraq War horrors. He wasn’t going to let COVID beat him.

UCSF News

Visit UCSF News Center

A Brain Tumor Patient Celebrates Survival

  • Patient Care
  • June 14, 2022

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Rank Among the Best for 2022-23

  • Patient Care
  • June 13, 2022

Overlooked Proteins May Be Key to Better Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s

  • Research
  • June 2, 2022

How Dangerous Is Monkeypox? UCSF’s Seth Blumberg Explains

  • Research
  • May 26, 2022

In Long COVID, Blood Markers Are Linked to Neuropsychiatric Ills

  • Research
  • May 24, 2022

Archive

Discover more stories about UCSF’s innovation and impact.

Visit the Archive

  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2022”. Text below reads “Shelter from the Storm: Helping asylum-seekers escape persecution”. Illustration of a woman hugging a man; the man’s back has a face with a frown and closed eyes; barbed wire come from the sides and wrap around the man’s arms. Winter 2022
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2022”. Text below reads “A Touch of Nobel-ity: The prize-winning science illuminating heat, touch, pain, itch, and much, much more”. Illustration of a hand with various stimuli on it, including a fire, ice, mosquito, a feather, a snake, chile peppers, itch, pain, and a kiss. Summer 2022
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2021”. Closeup photo half of a woman’s face, with her eye closed. Text on her cheek reads “Sleep Science Awakens: Can our genes point the way toward a better night’s sleep?” Summer 2021
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2021”. Illustration in background of a scientist overlooking converging planes of nanoproteins; one nanoprotein stands out in the background. Winter 2021
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: Summer 2020. Illustration of health care worker in PPE covering head and face, with only the eyes seen through goggles; a coronavirus symbol is in the middle of the head covering; a labyrinth surrounds the person with coronavirus symbols; text reads “Combating Coronavirus.” Summer 2020
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: in to left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2020”; bottom left corner reads “Special Issue, The Future”; illustration on cover: collage of a gloved hand with part robot hand, cells, needle, equations, and futuristic looking parts. Winter 2020
  • Cover of the Summer 2019 edition of UCSF Magazine: reads “Poison Control...the the rescue!”; comic book-style illustration of three people running through San Francisco; man in the is on the phone; there is a puddles, pills and pill bottle on the ground; Sutro tower shines in the background. Summer 2019
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: top left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2019”; bottom right reads “Stopping violence in our communities: Mending the physical wounds is only the beginning”; illustration on cover: part of a gun is show in black over a red background; inside the trigger area is an eye on a blue background; the blue drips from the gun.. Winter 2019
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: top left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2018”; bottom right reads “Drug Odyssey: The epic journey to better medicines”; illustration on cover: a syringe and needle come from the left; a large dropplet shape comes out of the needle with lines and multi-colored dots within; at the bottom left there is a portion of a beaker; at the top and bottom right, colored amorphous cloud-like shapes drift in from the edges of the page. Summer 2018
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2018”. Black background with a photo slit in half: the right half is a black and white portrait of a female scientist, the left half is a colorful cell image. Winter 2018
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2017”. Photo of a man whose face is completely obstructed by a smoke cloud; in the smoke cloud it reads: “Dazed and Confused. Why is it so hard to study marijuana?” Summer 2017
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2016”. Photo illustration of a map of the United States, made out of pills; most of the pills are white, with only a few black and red pills; Bottom left reads: “White Wash: Biomedical research doesn’t reflect the diversity of the American population”. Winter 2016
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2016”. Photo of a teenage boy, smiling. Text next to photo reads: “Free to be Oliver”. Text below photo reads: “MS Breakthrough; Science Goes 3-D; The End of AIDS?” Summer 2016
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2015”. Illustration of the silhouette of a man; behind him is a beautiful blue sky with fluffy clouds; inside his head is a stormy scene where the brain would be with a tree branching out from the brain area; white birds fly in to the storm. Text next to photo reads: “A New Way Out of Depression”. Text below photo reads: “Poverty’s Vexing Cycle; Kid-Size Dosing; When Disaster Strikes” Fall 2015
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Spring 2015”. Microscopic image of a T cell. Text next to photo reads: “Cancer's Fierce New Foe: Deploying the T cell against melanoma”. Text below photo reads: “Mission Bay Hospitals!; Service Superstars; Research at Risk” Spring 2015
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2014”. Photo of a man riding a motorbike on a busy street. Text next to photo reads: “Surgeons Hit the Road: Saving limbs and lives around the world”. Text below photo reads: “Rejuvenating the Brain; A San Francisco Scourge; Modern Nursing” Fall 2014
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Spring 2014”. Illustration of a man made out of bacterium. Text next to photo reads: “Only UCSF 150: Birthplace of biotech, World-class university dedicated to health, Caring for San Francisco since 1864”. Text below photo reads: “Mining our Microbiome; Silver Citizen Care; Mentor-Protégé Power” Spring 2014
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2013”. Illustration of circular data points with people representing data. Text next to photo reads: “The Promise of Emerges: Harnessing data to personalize care”. Text below photo reads: “Precision Medicine Special Issue” Fall 2013
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Spring 2013”. Photo collage of scince images, people, and San Francisco landmarks. Text next to photo reads: “Nobel for Stem Cell: Prize for Yamanaka rockets program to new heights”. Text below photo reads: “Students who Serve; Power of Precision Medicine; Can Wellness Cure?” Spring 2013
  • Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2012”. Photo of a closeup shot of a human eye. Text next to photo reads: “By Our Own Devices: Inventions that are saving sight, breath – and lives”. Text below photo reads: “Beating Bone Cancer Odds; Alumni Leaders; Dementia: Cracking the Codes” Fall 2012
UCSF Footer Logo

Follow UCSF:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Instagram

Stay up to date on the latest at UCSF Magazine

UCSF Magazine

  • About
  • Contact
  • Editorial Team

News & Media

  • UCSF News Center
  • Campus News
  • Media Coverage
  • Resources for Journalists

© 2002 - 2022 The Regents of The University of California

  • Site Map
  • Accessibility
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • A-Z Website List