Christian Vaisse, MD, PhD, studies weighty matters - the genetics of obesity. He has identified a mutated gene that is responsible for extreme obesity, at least in a rare and unfortunate few.

As the UCSF logo nears its 30th anniversary, designer Henry Wachs ponders art and the Russian Revolution.

Doctors and medical students, pioneers of what would later become UCSF, responded to the 1906 earthquake by helping to care for the injured.

Stormy skies gave way to sunshine as a symbol of hope for what's to come in cancer research at the recent groundbreaking of a new state-of-the-art facility at UCSF Mission Bay.

"Bringing Science to Life: The Promise of Modern Medicine" is the theme of UCSF's Mini Medical School for the public, which begins May 3.

UCSF Transportation Services is preparing for the first major overhaul to the campus shuttle routing system since the service began more than 30 years ago.

Inadequate use of screening mammography may be an important reason that African-American women are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer than members of other ethnic groups, according to a new study led by a University of California, San Francisco imaging specialist.

UCSF is being recognized for outstanding design and construction of its new animal facility on the Parnassus campus.

Jeffrey M. Drazen will tell the VIOXX story on Wednesday during the first UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture.