University of California San Francisco
<p>The UCSF Mission Bay campus has since its inception been a magnet for younger research faculty. Consider this evidence for the talents of young UCSF researchers: Year after year, young UCSF faculty have competed successfully for the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, one the most prestigious awards granted by the federal government’s leading biomedical research agency.</p>
Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes – and a new study by a duo at UCSF demonstrates how having two attending surgeons in the operating room during spinal surgeries can benefit patients in multiple ways.
<p>University of California President Mark G. Yudof announced that will end his tenure as President of the University of California, effective Aug. 31, 2013.</p>
<p>A decade after opening its first research building, UCSF Mission Bay is a vibrant, integrated campus that is home to three Nobel laureates and 2,500 UCSF faculty, clinicians, postdoctoral scholars and students.</p>
First trimester abortions are just as safe when performed by trained nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse midwives as when conducted by physicians, according to a new six-year study led by UCSF.
The risk of kidney failure is greater for people with chronic kidney disease who also have atrial fibrillation, one of the most common forms of irregular heart rhythm in adults, according to a new study by researchers at UCSF and the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.
New research in Nature concludes the eye – which depends on light to see – also needs light to develop normally during pregnancy.
<p>With technology fast becoming a part of health care, technology-savvy nurse scientists are helping to create and refine technology-based clinical interventions that would be fully informed by the real-world needs of patients and providers.</p>
<p>Ten core facilities on campus have been selected to receive a collective $2 million in funds from the Chancellor’s office to expand and improve access to transformative research technologies across UCSF.</p>
<p>Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPH, is featured in the fifth profile of an occasional series to highlight UCSF's great managers as determined by scores in the 2011 employee engagement survey administered by Gallup.</p>
<p>UCSF ranks second in the annual ranking of world universities in clinical medicine and pharmacy by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).</p>