The UC Board of Regents have approved a new retirement program for future UC employees proposed by President Napolitano, as part of a broader effort to maintain the university’s excellence and sustain its long-term financial health.

Eric P. Goosby, professor of medicine and director of Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy in Global Health Sciences at UCSF and the U.N. Special Envoy on Tuberculosis, talks about his role and how UCSF and Global Health Sciences support his work.

UCSF is moving forward with plans to construct a new building at its Mission Bay campus to support its world-class neuroscience enterprise at a time of great opportunity for advancement in the field, following approval by the UC Regents.

Fourth-year medical students gathered for the 2016 Match Day, an event to learn where they "matched," and the hospital or program where they will spend the next four or five years training as resident physicians.

A UCSF study found that veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were more likely to have worse endothelial vascular function, which plays a key role in blood vessel dilation, blood pressure, clotting and inflammation.

Eleni Linos and Stephen Francis have been awarded the first UCSF Cancer Center Impact Grants, to pursue high-risk, high-reward research projects that would’ve been unlikely to be funded through conventional mechanisms.

Serious and escalating depression in the elderly may almost double the likelihood of dementia, according to a study led by UC San Francisco, and could be an independent risk factor for cognitive decline, rather than just an early symptom of it.

The American Association of People with Disabilities is honoring UC San Francisco Staff Research Associate Alice Wong with one of two AAPD Paul G. Hearne Leadership Awards.

UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood took the first official trip of his administration to Washington, D.C., this week, meeting with White House officials and key legislators to advance the University’s health science priorities.