Exciting advances in medicine and health are being researched in precision medicine projects recently funded by the George and Judy Marcus Program in Precision Medicine Innovation.

New research by UCSF scientists could accelerate – by 10 to 100-fold – the pace of many efforts to profile gene activity, ranging from basic research into how to build new tissues from stem cells to clinical efforts to detect cancer or auto-immune diseases by profiling single cells in a tiny drop of blood.

The ninth annual Chancellor’s Diversity Forum provided a chance for UCSF faculty, staff and students to engage in a conversation with campus leadership about diversity, equity and inclusion across the University.

UCSF leaders are lauding the gift by Joan and Sanford I. Weill as transformational, giving the University an unprecedented opportunity to unite and expand its neurosciences community during a revolutionary period in brain discovery.

In the largest-ever gift to UCSF, the Weill Family Foundation and Joan and Sanford I. “Sandy” Weill have donated $185 million to establish the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.

Stem cell biologists at UCSF have demonstrated that IL-1 itself directly transforms the blood system by driving blood stem cells in the bone marrow to switch away from their restorative, rejuvenating role in blood renewal and towards emergency production of immune cells.

Global malaria eradication is possible within a generation, but only with renewed focus, new tools and sufficient financial support, according to a paper published in The Lancet by the Global Health Group’s Malaria Elimination Initiative at UCSF.