University of California San Francisco
UCSF has received a $20 million gift from philanthropist Chuck Feeney to build a new hub for Global Health Sciences at the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
<p>UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital have earned the prestigious Magnet designation for excellence in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.</p>
A once-promising discovery linking prostate cancer to an obscure retrovirus derived from mice was the result of an inadvertent laboratory contamination, a forensic analysis of tissue samples and lab experiments – some dating back nearly a decade – has confirmed.
<p>The UCSF community is invited to hear Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann deliver her annual State of the University Address on September 25.</p>
<p>With just over a month until the November election, UCSF is co-sponsoring a series of candidate forums for the California Assembly, California Senate and San Francisco Board of Supervisors.</p>
A new study by a UCSF-led research team has found a way to help asthma sufferers by impeding the two most significant biological responses that lead to an asthma attack.
<p>If there is an imminent threat to your life or safety from a hazardous material spill, fire, violent protests or an active shooter on campus, UCSF Police and its Homeland Security Emergency Management Division will send an emergency alert to any cell phone, email, pager or text messaging address registered in UCSF's WarnMe mass notification system.</p>
Mental health professionals, who often are tasked with evaluating and managing the risk of violence by their patients, may benefit from a simple tool to more accurately make a risk assessment, according to a recent study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco.
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have devised a method to track HIV inside individual cells — an important development for understanding “HIV latency" when the virus goes dormant after the patient begins antiretroviral treatment.