University of California San Francisco
Exposure to secondhand smoke even for a brief period is injurious to health, a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has found.
UCSF will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Millberry Union, the center of campus life at the flagship Parnassus campus, with festivities which begin today.
Fred Cohen, Allison Doupe, Stephen G. Lisberger and Louis J. Ptáček have been elected to the new class of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Kenneth (Ken) Dill, Phd, a national leader in research to clarify and predict the physical properties of proteins and other biological molecules, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy announced Tuesday.
We’ve been running our Science Café reader survey for a while now and the responses, although still fewer than 50, are revealing. Biggest complaint: Where are the transcripts?
Robert W. Sweetow, director of audiology at UCSF since 1991, recently received the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Academy of Audiology.
The UCSF Safe Motherhood Program is hosting a photo exhibit and reception to honor mothers worldwide.
A registered nurse who recently carried the Olympic torch through the streets of San Francisco reflects on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Those interested in serving on a committee to organize UCSF’s participation in the AIDS Walk are encouraged to contact the Public Affairs department.
UCSF’s pioneering physicians are featured in a film to honor the achievements of the past while looking toward the future.
An enzyme's star turn has drug makers applauding...
When the eye tracks a bird's flight across the sky, the visual experience is normally smooth, without interruption. But underlying this behavior is a complex coordination of neurons that has remained mysterious to scientists.
A fund has been established to benefit the widow and children of Luis “Al” Solari, who was killed in a road-rage incident in early April.
UCSF marked a milestone this week with the 500th procedure in its Thoracic Transplant Program, which specializes in transplantation of the heart and lung.
UCSF Medical Center is offering free screening for oral, head and neck cancer tomorrow at Mount Zion.
The campus community is invited to a daylong symposium on May 16 honoring Carroll Estes, a highly acclaimed scholar in the field of aging.
A computer-based interactive risk assessment and risk reduction counseling program using a video doctor sharply reduces sexual and drug risk behaviors by HIV-positive patients, according to UCSF researchers who developed and tested the intervention.
UCSF will award its highest honor – the UCSF Medal – to four civic and scientific leaders at a special event on Wednesday, April 23.
Sorry to tease you with that headline. We all know that no such animal as a presidential science adviser exists in the US, a sad fact that David Baltimore and Ahmed Zewail mentioned prominently in their April 17, 2008, <cite>Wall Street Journal</cite> editorial, “We Need a Science White House.”
Chancellor Mike Bishop has appointed a committee to look at UCSF’s effect on the environment and coordinate earth-friendly actions across campus.
The campus community is invited to hear California State Senator Leland Yee talk about the state of health care reform this evening at UCSF.
UCSF was the third largest recipient of National Institutes of Health research support in 2007, according to new figures released by NIH.
Psychiatrist and geneticist Steven Hamilton, MD, PhD — a lover of crime fiction, as it turns out — freely admits that when it comes to understanding how antidepressants work, no one has the answer — at least not yet.
UCSF Professor Gail R. Martin, whose discoveries laid the foundation for today's stem cell research, will deliver the 51st Faculty Research Lecture on April 22.