More than 20 years ago, UCSF pioneered cardiac ablation surgery to help patients with erratic heartbeats by zapping their hearts. Now they've opened an impressive new high-tech surgery suite to improve this surgery.

Scientists have carried out a bioengineering feat that advances the possibility of "reassembling" and reprogramming living cells to serve as mini-robots in the body to treat disease.

The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center (AHVC) celebrated its first year of Asian-focused care, outreach and education recently during a celebration at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion.

The campus community is invited to attend the Second Annual Mentoring Research Symposium on May 24 and 25 at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.

Artists to design the UCSF event T-shirt and walkers are sought for San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 15.

UCSF's Shannon Webb says she's empowered to make a difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS.