UCSF and the Future of Science: A Conversation with Keith Yamamoto
Scientist, research dean, teacher and visionary, Keith Yamamoto has seen it all in his 35 years at UCSF. What does he think about today's UCSF science?

University of California San Francisco
Scientist, research dean, teacher and visionary, Keith Yamamoto has seen it all in his 35 years at UCSF. What does he think about today's UCSF science?
Women's health pioneer Judy Norsigian will speak on the media's impact on women's health, during a lunchtime talk on Tuesday, June 5.
UCSF Nancy Hassol will be among those working on the sidelines to make the 2007 AIDS/LifeCycle a success.
The campus community is invited to share their thoughts on the advancement of women staff at UC on June 25.
Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the body's ability to sense cold.
David Julius, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UCSF, has won two awards for his work on the molecular understanding of how humans sense temperature.
States that set high staffing standards for elder care in nursing homes are the only ones that come close to having enough staff nurses to prevent serious safety violations, according to a new study by a professor in the UCSF School of Nursing.
Thanks to rarely talked-about recent advances in radiation treatments, young children are surviving cancers that would have been incurable a decade ago. One strategy that is helping to boost survival is radiation treatment provided at the time of surgery. UCSF and fewer than a dozen other medical centers nationwide are at the forefront in advancing this mode of treatment, called intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT).
UCSF's Kerwin Alexander will be among those pedaling the 585-mile AIDS LifeCycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles next month.
Keeping an old brain young takes a jolt of novelty and a hunger for change...
UCSF opened the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Diagnostic Center, one of the few centers of its kind in the world.
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has received one of the largest single donations ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services
UCSF has announced that a $25 million donation, one of the largest ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services, will jump-start the creation of a comprehensive program dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of Bay Area youths, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Faculty, staff and students were recognized for their outstanding efforts at UCSF and in the community at the annual Founders Day Luncheon on May 11.
A UCSF geneticist recently identified a gene that triggers a rare disorder resembling multiple sclerosis (MS).
More than 20 years ago, UCSF pioneered cardiac ablation surgery to help patients with erratic heartbeats by zapping their hearts. Now they've opened an impressive new high-tech surgery suite to improve this surgery.
The campus community is invited to attend the Second Annual Mentoring Research Symposium on May 24 and 25 at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.
Scientists have carried out a bioengineering feat that advances the possibility of "reassembling" and reprogramming living cells to serve as mini-robots in the body to treat disease.
The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center (AHVC) celebrated its first year of Asian-focused care, outreach and education recently during a celebration at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion.
Artists to design the UCSF event T-shirt and walkers are sought for San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 15.
UCSF's Shannon Webb says she's empowered to make a difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS.
Are chemical poisons concentrated in breast milk behind the rise in autism?