UCSF looks back on four ways it pioneered deep brain stimulation with the help of federal funding, helping patients with Parkinson’s Disease, chronic pain, depression, and more.

A UCSF team discover how breast cancer tumors tunnel into neighboring fat cells to trigger fat breakdown in order to feed on fat and grow.

Two new Pew Latin American fellows, Beatriz De Moraes, PhD, and Lilian Gomes de Oliveira, PhD, will each receive a $30,000 annual stipend for two years to support their work at the crossroads of immunology and neuroscience.

The vascular surgery team at UCSF Health recently became the first among University of California medical centers to implant a Barostim device to treat heart failure. The team implanted the device in a young woman with the goal of reducing her heart failure symptoms and improving her quality of life.

Barostim is a new, FDA-approved, implantable device that rebalances the autonomic nervous system, with the goal of improving outcomes for heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction. 

A UCSF team develops a new drug for malaria that could address one of the disease's biggest challenges - the spread of parasites that resist the most commonly-used medications.