University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSF<p>Top students from UCSF's four professional schools and the Graduate Division tell why they chose to study at UCSF, one of the nation's premier health sciences universities, in a new video captured during new student orientation day.</p>
<p>A new study that represents a significant first step in exploring the potential of stem cells to treat neurological disease is a “natural outgrowth” of a longstanding culture of interdisciplinary collaboration in UCSF neonatology — a culture that UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital physicians David Rowitch and Donna Ferriero work hard to sustain.</p>
For the first time, a clinical trial led by UCSF investigators and sponsored by Stem Cells Inc., has shown that transplanted neural stem cells appear to produce myelin in the brains of four young children with an early-onset, fatal disease.
<p>For the first time since 1997, UCSF is embarking on a new long-range development plan to guide the University through the year 2035 and is seeking input from members of the community in the planning process.</p>
Armed with a new $10 million grant, a multi-center “dream team’’ of scientists, led by UCSF, is embarking on a groundbreaking undertaking to overcome therapeutic resistance and revolutionize treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer.
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have discovered how a protein deficiency may be linked to frontotemporal dementia (FTD) — a form of early-onset dementia similar to Alzheimer’s disease. These results lay the foundation for therapies that one day may benefit those who suffer from this and related brain diseases.