The late UCSF neuroscientist Allison Doupe, MD, PhD, will be honored by the Society for Neuroscience with the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Hall of Honor award at the society’s annual meeting in Chicago later this month.

Five UCSF faculty members are among the 70 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine, formerly known as the Institute of Medicine.

Genetic ancestry, as well as facial characteristics, may play an important part in who we select as mates, according to an analysis from UCSF, Microsoft Research, Harvard, UC Berkeley and Tel Aviv University.

UCSF has closed escrow on the purchase of three properties from a single owner near its Mission Bay campus as a potential site to build critically needed, affordable housing for graduate students and trainees.

Health care providers must have detailed discussions with their older adult patients to better determine their true life expectancy, according to researchers at UCSF and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

UCSF has launched a collaboration with international pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) to promote early-stage research with the potential to translate into new therapies for cancer, obesity and antibiotic resistant bacteria.

To help stop the spread of antibiotic resistance, UCSF scientists are urging hospitals around the country to stop buying meat from animals that were given antibiotics for growth promotion.