John Maa, MD, has been named the winner of a special quiz that shows how UCSF faculty members have served in the nation's top health posts.

The UCSF School of Nursing is celebrating 100 years of nursing excellence with a year-long series of special events that honor the accomplishments of alumni and faculty and the leadership of nurses throughout the university.

Aspiring artist Ila May Fisher has recovered after a successful heart transplant at UCSF Medical Center.

Several UCSF scientists attended the fourth annual International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Toronto, June 28-July 1.

Time is running out for those who may be procrastinating about joining or supporting the AIDS Walk.

UCSF prides itself on employing staff with diverse and unique personal stories.

A child care center serving more than 80 infants and toddlers opened recently at UCSF Mission Bay.

Robert L. Nussbaum, MD, professor of medicine and chief of medical genetics at UCSF, has been awarded one of seven research grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to develop mammalian models of Parkinson's disease, the foundation announced this week.

UCSF scientists have discovered why some misfolded shapes of a prion protein are more infectious than others - differences that affect how readily prions can trigger abnormal folding in other proteins.