We asked a team of UCSF kidney experts – including nephrologist, a transplant surgeon, a transplant pharmacist and a bioengineer – to shine a light on the problem of kidney disease and share their hopes for the future.

UCSF Health is actively preparing for a potential increase in patients arriving at our hospitals due to COVID-19.

Based on findings from a new study, future research should examine how to incorporate functional, cognitive and psychological factors in the pre-surgery assessment of older adults.

UC San Francisco researchers have finally identified the cellular circuit responsible for conveying stress signals from inside mitochondria to the integrated stress response, a discovery that may have important implications for treating the many debilitating diseases associated with mitochondrial stress.