During a visit to the Mission Bay campus, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said UCSF represents the future of scientific advancement, and praised recent federal actions supporting the NIH and stem cell research.

UCSF will debut a show on April 30 featuring theater pieces, music, poetry and other forms of artistic expression created by current and former patients of UCSF Children’s Hospital.

World-renowned nursing and health policy advocate Judith Oulton is this year’s UC Presidential Chair at UCSF and will spend the next three months teaching at the UCSF School of Nursing.

Members of the campus community now have an opportunity to sign up for a new mass notification system that will alert them to life-threatening emergencies.

San Francisco – Speaker Nancy Pelosi will tour the University of California, San Francisco’s Mission Bay Campus and the J. David Gladstone Institutes.

The common research worm, C. elegans, is able to use heat-sensing nerve cells to not only regulate its response to hotter environments, but also to control the pace of its aging as a result of that heat, according to new research at the University of California, San Francisco

The 10th annual children’s art exhibition and a free movie are among the activities planned at UCSF during the Week of the Young Child, which begins on April 19.

Scientists are reporting the strongest evidence to date that neurodegenerative diseases target and progress along distinct neural networks that normally support healthy brain function. The discovery could lead to earlier diagnoses, novel treatment-monitoring strategies, and, possibly, recognition of a common disease process among all forms of neurodegeneration.

UCSF Medical Center is sensitive to the needs of its patients, who get support from an inner circle that sometimes includes a beloved animal.