University of California San Francisco
A group from UC San Francisco joined representatives from the nine other University of California campuses last month to make the case for Congressional support of graduate research and education at "UC Day in DC."
The UCSF community is invited to a free concert by singer-songwriter Jen Chapin, whose music is described as urban-folk soul, on June 24 on the Parnassus campus.
A new $11 million grant to UCSF and Kaiser Permanente Northern California will support a multifaceted research program aimed at lowering stroke risk among black populations and younger stroke victims by targeting high blood pressure.
A research team led by UCSF scientists has found that exposure in infancy to nitrogen dioxide, a component of motor vehicle air pollution, is strongly linked with later development of childhood asthma among African Americans and Latinos.
UCSF convened 170 of the world’s foremost thinkers, creators and innovators last month at the OME Precision Medicine Summit to identify new approaches and spur action to make medicine more predictive, preventive and precise.
Aspirin is known to lower risk for some cancers, and a new UCSF-led study points to a possible explanation, with the discovery that aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells in at least one pre-cancerous condition.
Researchers at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have discovered how one important protein falls under direct instructions from the body’s circadian clock and how this protein regulates fundamental circadian processes.