Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, was named chair-elect of the board of directors of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).

The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine has received a matching-gift challenge to spur other philanthropists to contribute to the center’s new endowment.

The highly acclaimed musician and influential philanthropist Neil Young will headline The Concert for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital on Wednesday, December 8, 2010, at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco.

UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann reaches out to the University community about Wednesday’s tragic shuttle accident.

A new report documents UCSF’s actions to involve the community to develop forest management goals for the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve and includes a plan for their implementation.

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at UCSF is encouraging smokers to quit today, which marks the 35th annual Great American Smokeout, with the hope that they may quit for good.

In a letter to the UCSF community, Chancellor Desmond-Hellmann expressed sorrow over a fatal accident this week involving a campus shuttle bus that resulted in the death of a 65-year-old woman.

A live satellite video feed will capture the moment at 2:20 p.m. today (Nov. 17) when UCSF Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner, MD, receives the National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest honor for science and technology.

Scientists are reporting the first direct evidence that a subtle change in the physical properties of a tissue can affect its function.