UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann named a working group consisting of 13 leaders from UC, UCSF and business who have agreed to take on the critically important assignment of exploring a new business model for the health sciences university.

UCSF's David Saloner, PhD, was elected by his peers to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows for his outstanding contributions to advancing the quantitative imaging of vascular and cardiac biomechanics and function.

Quality of life for disabled elderly people is most closely tied to two factors: a sense of dignity and a sense of control, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and UCSF.