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Leading Revolutions in Health

UCSF embraces new ways of looking at health’s hardest problems to accelerate scientific progress and speed the development of new therapies and cures.

How It's Done

  1. An infant had a rare and aggressive form of cancer. A powerful genetic test developed at UCSF identified a drug that saved his life.

  2. David Julius, PhD, has won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for his groundbreaking work studying how we experience pain.

  3. A team of bioengineers have developed LOCKR, an artificial protein with the potential to revolutionize cell therapies.

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Spanning the Bay

With more than 20 locations throughout San Francisco and beyond, UC San Francisco is an industry of its own, contributing greatly to the intellectual vigor and economic vitality of the Bay Area.