A protein that contributes to the rejection of transplanted hearts has been identified by a UCSF research team. The finding raises hopes for future developments that may boost transplant success and reduce the side effects of current anti-rejection drugs.

Systems expert Chao Tang thinks an explosive new chapter in scientific history will soon remodel biology.

UCSF has formed a new organization to better serve the academic and administrative information technology needs of the University.

A discussion about the health and human rights among women in Afghanistan today, sponsored by the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health.

CEO Mark Laret says "we are going to need to look deep inside ourselves and our organization to understand what it is going to take to succeed" in a new era of accountability and performance.

Established in 1986 in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) is marking its 20th anniversary and its evolution as a national and global leader in designing and testing HIV prevention interventions.

UCSF Medical Center will team up with the Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis and Stanford University Medical Center to host a free seminar for patients and families living with the lung disorder known as IPF, or idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Fun was the prescription at UCSF Children's Hospital on Tuesday as children went door-to-door – or nursing station-to-nursing station – trick-or-treating for Halloween.

A $46 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop new treatments for severe diarrhea will focus much of its initial support on potential, new drugs discovered at UCSF. Diarrhea is a leading killer of children under the age of 5 worldwide and kills about 5 million people a year.