The UCSF community is invited to “Art for AIDS,” a benefit featuring the cast of Dreamgirls, who will perform songs from that Tony Award-winning musical on September 24.

Cancer and infertility can be a double blow. Many women become infertile following cancer treatment. And because more women are living longer thanks to modern chemotherapy and radiation treatment, more are later discovering that they cannot bear children.

UC leaders will host an online town hall meeting on September 24 to talk with faculty, staff and retirees about post-employment benefits, health care costs, UC’s budget and other University issues.

Cell biologists at UCSF have received $15.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to set up one of two new National Centers for Systems Biology, to study how cells respond to their environment – an emerging field of research that could revolutionize medicine by creating “smart cells” to deliver medications and other therapeutics more effectively.

An inexpensive, hundred-year-old therapy for pain – aspirin – is effective in high doses for the treatment of severe headache and migraine caused by drug withdrawal, according to a new study by researchers with the UCSF Headache Center.

UCSF students are benefitting from the wisdom of some of the nation’s leading medical educators in shaping their training to be more relevant for the ever-evolving landscape.

The University of California filed a motion Sept. 20 with the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals to intervene in Sherley v. Sebelius, the case regarding whether federal funds could be used for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. UC is the nation’s first research institution to formally seek to intervene in the pending lawsuit.

Sexual development is more likely to occur earlier when a girl’s father doesn’t live in the home, according to new study findings reported by a research team led by scientists from the University of California and Kaiser Permanente Northern California.

UCSF has launched a new, online tool that helps shed light on the University’s research strengths and connects faculty to their colleagues.