Peter Walter has won the 2014 Lasker Award, popularly known as the "American Nobels." It’s the second major accolade this year alone for the Germany native, whose career didn't always point toward being a research scientist.

It was a spectacular celebration for the UCSF community that culminated in the ceremonial "turning on the lights" at the new Mission Bay medical center. Browse some of the day's colorful sights.

Motivating INformed Decisions (MIND), UC San Francisco’s newest career exploration program, is about to embark on its inaugural year. MIND will give basic and biomedical graduate students and postdoctoral students the skills they need to effectively explore the diversity of careers available to PhD scientists.

UCSF’s Center for Digital Health Innovation director Michael Blum talks about the future of digital health and how advanced health wearables could lead to big changes in the way we practice medicine.

Katie Kelley, MD, a gastrointestinal oncologist at UC San Francisco, has received the 2014 Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).