Dean Sheppard has been selected as the recipient of the sixth annual Faculty Research Lecture in Translational Science.

Eleven faculty and staff members received this year’s UCSF Founders Day Awards for their contributions in the areas of public service, exceptional service to UCSF and excellence in nursing.

Phototherapy, increasingly used to treat jaundiced infants, could very slightly raise the risk of pediatric cancers, particularly myeloid leukemia, according to epidemiological research published, online Monday, May 23, in Pediatrics.

Andre Campbell delivered the 2016 Last Lecture, which contained the underlying theme of the importance of social justice and diversity.

A research team led by UC San Francisco scientists has discovered a cellular signaling system that regulates the virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans, a fungus that has been estimated to cause nearly a million cases of meningitis worldwide per year, about 625,000 of which are fatal.

A national study led by a UCSF oncologist has found that patients with metastatic colon cancer that develops on the left side of the colon survive significantly longer than those with cancer that develops on the right side.

The UCSF Graduate Division has published the first comprehensive study of career outcomes for UCSF’s postdoctoral scholars and possibly the largest single-institution study on the subject conducted to date.

A team of cancer researchers led by scientists at UCSF and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York have developed a first-of-its-kind hybrid drug with the power to outsmart drug-resistant cancers.

UCSF Health doctors have performed a first-of-its-kind elbow transplant between the same patient's arms. Experts say the surgery could transform treatment for trauma patients, injured veterans and others with elbow and joint conditions.