Insights & Advice

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Ask the Expert

A Goldilocks Dose of Coronavirus

Do masks provide a just-right amount of COVID‑19?
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Thought Leader

Together, We Laid the Foundation for the Future

UCSF: The Campaign succeeded beyond our greatest hopes.
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Ask the Expert

What Is COVID Doing to Our Hearts?

The disease can affect the heart’s rhythm, impair its ability to pump blood, and much more.
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Feature

Aging Is Not Optional. Or Is It?

How science can intervene in the aging process.

Combating Coronavirus

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Feature

How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

As the nation’s testing regime floundered, one research team sprang into action.
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Ask the Expert

Seeking Immunity

What will it take to produce a coronavirus vaccine?
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First Person

How I Survived

Writer F.T. Kola recounts her battle with COVID-19 and its aftermath.
Cardiomyocytes generated from human embryonic stem cells imaged using fluorescent microscopy.

Frontliners

Cracking the Coronavirus Gender Mystery

Why does COVID‑19 seem to take a greater toll on men than women?
UCSF Nurses gather in Oakland for a Black Health Matters protest; a male Black nurse in a white coat and face mask stands with female nurses, holding a sign that reads “Abolish” in graffiti style; a large mural of George Floyd’s portrait is in the background.

Feature

An Epidemic of Inequality

Confronting the root of why people of color have been hit hardest by the coronavirus.
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Frontliners

They Called Us Heroes

We were just doing our jobs.

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Cover of UCSF Magazine: Summer 2020. Illustration of health care worker in PPE covering head and face, with only the eyes seen through goggles; a coronavirus symbol is in the middle of the head covering; a labyrinth surrounds the person with coronavirus symbols; text reads “Combating Coronavirus.”

Summer 2020

Cover of UCSF Magazine: in to left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2020”; bottom left corner reads “Special Issue, The Future”; illustration on cover: collage of a gloved hand with part robot hand, cells, needle, equations, and futuristic looking parts.

Winter 2020

 

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UCSF Alumni Confront COVID‑19

We asked alumni to share their pandemic stories.

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