Two decades of research by the international research network Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet has helped to produce recommendations for a new type 1 diabetes staging classification.

Newborns who are heavier than average and gain weight rapidly in the first six months of life face a heightened chance of obesity by the time they are old enough for kindergarten, according to a study published on March 4, 2016, in The Journal of Pediatrics.

Co-Vice Chair for Psychology Stephen P. Hinshaw as been selected by the Association for Psychological Science as one of its 2016 James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award recipients.

Life-or-death verdicts in cancer often result from the ways microscopic kinks and folds in proteins fit together within a tumor cell. While in college, Trever Bivona was fascinated by the idea that a single protein’s twists could determine the trajectory of the disease.

The UCSF School of Nursing's Family Health Care Nursing volunteer faculty Martha Ryan will be honored by the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women and Mayor Edwin M. Lee.

UCSF scientists have discovered a network of brain cells that allows animals to keep track of where they are when they are not moving through space, such as when they are eating, engaged in social interactions, or sleeping.