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Through its Office of Innovation Ventures, UC San Francisco has formalized a new strategic collaboration with Autobahn Labs, a “virtual incubator” focused on drug discovery and development, to help move scientific discoveries with therapeutic potential more quickly to market.
A UCSF clinical psychologist has taken aim at the NFL for “race-norming” Black players diagnosed with dementia, a practice that is depriving them of the monetary awards allocated to former footballers with neurodegenerative disorders.
The researchers concluded that the first lockdown from March 19 through May 9 lowered the number of excess deaths for most but not all groups.
Patterns of brain activity can be used to forecast seizure risk in epilepsy patients several days in advance, according to a new analysis of data obtained from clinically approved brain implants by neuroscientists at UCSF, the University of Bern and the University of Geneva.
On a history-making day, UCSF began the first vaccinations of its critical health care workforce, including both clinical and non-clinical staff whose work places them at heightened risk of infection by COVID-19.
It was the year of COVID-19. Of racial reckonings. Of political unrest and transition. Amid these historic events, UCSF adapted, endured and excelled.
Take a look back at UCSF's most popular stories of 2020 - a chronicle of an extraordinary year.
As UCSF’s chief business officer, Jenny has managed a complex and wide-ranging portfolio that embraces a myriad of departments across the UCSF enterprise.
Experts now believe it’s most effective to treat the whole family when traumas occur. UCSF researchers plan to develop a “Whole Family Wellness” intervention that integrates resources from Medi-Cal clinics with outside agencies and test it over a three-year period.
The device, which may be a better illness indicator than a thermometer, could lead to earlier isolation and testing, curbing the spread of infectious diseases.
UCSF experts and advisers continue to shape policy by bringing fundamental research to lawmakers and serving as key advisers to initiatives that advance science and health care throughout California.
A group at Gladstone Institutes and UCSF has demonstrated that a large-scale and systematic genetic approach can indeed yield reliable and detailed information on the structure of protein complexes.
COVID-19 infections are once again rising at an alarming rate in San Francisco’s Latinx community, predominantly among low-income essential workers, according to results of a massive community-based testing blitz conducted before and after the Thanksgiving holiday.
