UCSF is adding 15 new all-electric, zero-emissions transit vehicles to the inter-campus shuttle network that serves UCSF employees, faculty, students, patients and guests.

To teach future doctors, nurses and pharmacists how they can advocate for systemic changes and how to improve their interactions with individual homeless patients, UCSF provides an elective course each fall.

The UCSF School of Dentistry is adding virtual and augmented reality for its first-year students.

This fall, UCSF welcomes over 900 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.

New and returning students are sharing their back-to-school experiences using the hashtag #UCSFBackToSchool – see what they are up to.

Researchers at UCSF find wearable cardioverter defibrillators lower mortality among those who wear it as prescribed.

Nearly all studies of telomere genetics have been performed in adult populations of European or Asian ancestry, meaning that studies aiming to understand how early environmental exposures impact telomere length across different ethnic groups can’t easily assess the role of natural variations in telomere biology.

The UCSF School of Medicine announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration recently awarded Alicia Fernández a four-year grant to create a UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence.