University of California San Francisco
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann announced to the campus community on Dec. 16 that she will step down from her post to become chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Some of the world's top researchers converged at UCSF as part of a two-day celebration of the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, nicknamed the "Oscars of Science."
A team led by scientists from UCSF has discovered that recurrent gliomas may have genetic profiles that are markedly different from those of the initial tumors that spawned them.
A new UCSF-led study of nearly 3,000 individuals links obesity to the development of kidney disease.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is stepping down from her position as chancellor of UCSF at the end of March, to become the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Leland Kim, a senior information representative on the news team at University Relations, has been appointed to the new role of associate director of internal communications at UC San Francisco.
Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages is likely to decrease consumption, resulting in lower rates of diabetes and heart disease, and these health benefits are expected to be greatest for the low-income, Hispanic and African-American Californians who are at highest risk of diabetes, according to a new analysis led by researchers at UC San Francisco.
Children’s risk for developing allergies and asthma is reduced when they are exposed in early infancy to a dog in the household, and now researchers have discovered a reason why.
The University Community Partnership Council awards three programs for Excellence in Partnerships in this year's ceremony.
UCSF faculty members are collaborating with Birth Justice Project co-founders and a volunteer doula program director at San Francisco General Hospital for a vocational training program.
UC San Francisco’s Global Health Group has received a $15 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a pioneering effort to help nearly three dozen countries eliminate malaria within their borders.
Renowned Alzheimer’s researcher and founding president of the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes, Robert Mahley, MD, PhD, has received a Seeding Drug Discovery Award from the Wellcome Trust.
The nation’s top scientists will gather at UCSF to discuss the latest in research discovery at a special symposium honoring the 2013 and 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Award recipients on Friday, Dec. 13.
UCSF biochemist Daniel Minor's research suggests that "Mono Lake contains biological blueprints mirrored in our very bodies."
The UCSF Library is currently hosting a traveling banner exhibit from the National Library of Medicine, centered on how people have survived AIDS on a personal and political level.
The day after the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences winners are announced, the recipients – along with 2013 recipients, UCSF Nobel laureates and other luminaries in the field – will participate in a symposium on the state of research in cancer, genetics, neurobiology and stem cells.
The UCSF community is invited to bring family, friends, and loved ones to a fun-filled concert of holiday cheer featuring the San Francisco Opera Guild Singers on December 18.
Women's reproductive health experts Diana Taylor and Tracy Weitz conducted the foundational research on the safety and quality of aspiration abortions that now has become law of the land in California.