The University of California Center for Climate, Health and Equity will officially launch this week with a series of high-level conversations open to the public online.

Scientists at UCSF QBI and the QBI Coronavirus Research Group (QCRG) have been awarded $67.5 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to support its mission of pandemic preparedness.

UCSF has received approval for plans to build a state-of-the-art hospital at UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center at Parnassus Heights to meet the region’s growing demand for specialty care and California’s rigorous hospital seismic requirements.

Nevan Krogan, PhD, director of UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute, examines in detail the effects of a handful of genes that seem to play an outsize role in a wide array of diseases.

UCSF organizes the annual festival, which returned to an in-person event this year.

Keith Yamamoto, PhD, a leader in precision medicine and the vice chancellor of Science Policy and Strategy at UCSF, has been elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the largest scientific society in the world.