The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced grants totaling $5.4 million to 10 medical schools, including UCSF, to provide stronger institutional support and supplemental funds for early-career physician scientists.

A new study by UCSF scientists shows that the proportion of normal cells, especially immune cells, intermixed with cancerous cells in a given tissue sample may significantly skew the results of genetic analyses and other tests performed both by researchers and by physicians selecting precision therapies.

A small study of new mothers suggests that not having graduated from high school may impact the likelihood of babies being born with shortened telomeres.

As health care shifts away from a fee-for-service model as a result of the ACA, health care workers in California will be called upon to develop new skills and fill new roles, according to a study led by UCSF researchers.

To mark World AIDS Day, the government of Mexico City held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new HIV/AIDS clinic and named it for Jaime Sepulveda, MD, DSc, MPH, executive director of UCSF Global Health Sciences.

HIV can lurk for a lifetime in the body, so to truly cure patients, scientists are trying to find ways to target these HIV reservoirs in a strategy known as “shock and kill.”

UCSF's Global Health Sciences is launching a new project to improve care for women in India and Kenya, called the Strengthening People-centered Accessibility, Respect, and Quality (SPARQ) project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

In a bid to end the worst epidemic in modern times, the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) is funding an ambitious effort based in San Francisco to eliminate the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from those who are infected.