The Graduate Division’s Postdoctoral Scholar Research Award aims to help UCSF postdocs pursue original ideas and launch their careers.

Seven students who devoted the past year to understanding and improving global health have become the country’s first to obtain a master of science degree in the field.

UCSF researchers have identified a new potential drug target for the herpes virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, re-opening the possibility of using the class of drugs called protease inhibitors against the full herpes family of viruses, which for 20 years has been deemed too difficult to attain.

UCSF Children's Hospital will celebrate children and their families at the 14th annual Pediatric Transplant Picnic.

Medical center employees and non-physician, clinically related employees at the UCSF School of Medicine and UCSF School of Dentistry will not be furloughed or have their pay decreased, according to Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today (July 28, 2009) approved a resolution that allows for the operation of a helipad at the new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, a state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients scheduled to open in 2014. The resolution passed unanimously, by a vote of 11 to 0.

Regulatory T cells prevent our immune systems from attacking our own tissues. However, these cells can turn against us if they lose a molecule called FoxP3.

June Chan, who specializes in the study of nutritional and hormonal risk factors for prostate cancer, has been named the Steven and Christine-Burd Safeway Endowed Chair.