Showcasing Art That Celebrates Creativity and Healing Amid Cancer
For patients facing life-threatening illnesses, art can be a lifeline. See how UCSF’s Art for Recovery program — recently featured at SFMOMA — helps patients express what words can’t.
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The Right Drug, the First Time
Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD, is using genetics to help end the guesswork in prescribing.
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A Gift to Help Scientists Predict How Drugs Behave in the Body
OpenADMET, helmed by Jaime Fraser, will receive funding from the OpenAI Foundation in pursuit of an efficient, affordable, open system for screening thousands of drugs for their ability to safely traverse the body to treat disease. This transit of drugs in the human body is often where new drugs fail in clinical trials.
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The Skin: Visible Clues to Disease
Your skin reveals more than you’d think. UCSF researchers are using it to catch cancer earlier and decode diseases throughout the body.
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Is Testosterone a Miracle Hormone?
“The public is being fed information about testosterone that is incomplete.” Two UCSF specialists bust the myths politicians and influencers won’t.
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Can AI Cause Psychosis?
A UCSF psychiatrist explains what’s really going on with chatbots and mental health.
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How Can We Fix the Health Care Workforce Shortage?
Boomers are retiring from health care just as their own medical needs rise. A UCSF health economist unpacks the shortage and what it will take to fix it.
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Watch the Actors Training UCSF’s Future Clinicians
Before students face real patients, they face trained actors. Watch how UCSF’s standardized patients help prepare the next generation of clinicians.
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Can the Latest Weight-Loss Drugs Curb Other Cravings Too?
GLP-1 drugs are known for weight loss. UCSF researchers are testing whether they also dial down alcohol and opioid cravings.
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Our Future Medicines Will Toggle, Hinge, and Slide
“Humans can't design proteins.” That’s what one scientist was told. Decades later, UCSF labs are doing exactly that — with AI.
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Sudden Death, Misunderstood
“How are we going to save victims of cardiac arrest if we don’t know which ones are really cardiac?” A UCSF cardiologist’s 15-year investigation is upending what we thought we knew about sudden death.
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How Digital Life Erodes Cognitive Health — and What You Can Do to Get It Back
“The cognition crisis is not just a clinical problem. It’s a problem for our species.” UCSF scientists on what screens are doing to our minds — and how to get your focus back.
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UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals Earn Strongest US News Rankings
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals earned its strongest-ever showing in the 2026-27 U.S. News Best Children’s Hospitals rankings, tying for best in Northern California, with all specialties nationally recognized and four ranking in the top 10.
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To Work Their Best, Busy Body Tissues Call on Bigger Cleanup Crews
UCSF researchers discover how some of our hardest-working organs stay healthy: by recruiting immune macrophages to dispose of spent batteries (mitochondria) while heart/muscle/fat cells burn energy.
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FDA Approves PET Imaging Agent for Brain Cancer Based on UCSF Data
UC San Francisco study data was instrumental in today’s approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a PET imaging agent that helps physicians evaluate gliomas, a form of brain cancer.The
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Single Brain Implant Lets Paralyzed People Both Talk and Gesture via an Avatar
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SF Giants, UCSF Give Pediatric Cancer Patients a Day to ‘Just Be Kids’
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UCSF Expands Transit Pass Program Across its Workforce
UCSF is expanding Clipper BayPass to 36,000 employees and students, offering affordable, unlimited public transit across 24 Bay Area bus, rail and ferry services.
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UCSF Honors 4 Awardees with UCSF Medal
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This is How Dense Breast Tissue May Lead to Cancer
Valerie Weaver's team discovers why stiff tissue is a risk factor for breast cancer: it spurs immune cells to release DNA-damaging chemicals, which cause the mutations that ultimately lead to cancer.
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UCSF Expands Behavioral Health Support Program for Families Statewide
A UCSF-developed program that integrates behavioral health support for children and caregivers into routine pediatric care is poised to extend across California with a $17 million investment from the
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3 Common Drugs Older Adults May Be Overusing
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The Dementia That Often Strikes in Midlife — And the Signs People Miss
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New Drug With UCSF Roots Has Revolutionized Pancreatic Cancer Care
Andrew Ko, who led UCSF's trials of daraxonrasib based on discovery science, tells what to know about the medicine, the science behind it and what it means for patients. . On the heels of the drug's FDA approval, he
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Why Novel Cancer Vaccine Tested at UCSF Marks New Treatment Era
UCSF researchers helped test the first personalized mRNA cancer vaccine shown to prevent melanoma from returning or spreading, marking a breakthrough in cancer treatment.
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A “Race Equation” Baked into a Standard Medical Test is Hurting Black Patients, But Most Hospitals are Still Using It
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Meta Settlement Puts Spotlight on Social Media Addiction in Kids
Jason Nagata, MD, MSc, discusses the health dangers of excessive social media use on the health of children, in response to an August 2026 announcement of a $17.1 billion settlement regarding children and teen addiction to their platform.
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UCSF-Led Group Awarded $9 Million for Heart Inflammation Research
An international research network led in North America by UC San Francisco (UCSF) has received a $9 million award from the Leducq Foundation, a cardiovascular research funding organization, to uncover
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Autism Decoded: New Science Is Opening Paths to Better Treatments
A study by Nevan Krogan and Matt State reveals protein interactions in the brain that are relevant to autism and epilepsy.
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UCSF QBI Is Awarded $46 Million to Advance Autism Research
The UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) has received a significant grant to fund autism-related research.
