UCSF Joins Arc Institute to Advance New Therapies for Complex Diseases
Arc investigators will include faculty at UCSF, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, as well as graduate students in these universities pursuing PhD studies at Arc labs.
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Give to UCSFArc investigators will include faculty at UCSF, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, as well as graduate students in these universities pursuing PhD studies at Arc labs.
See the story behind the first and only women’s sports medicine center on the West Coast. Learn how the center’s physicians – all athletes – are helping women and girls, from weekend warriors to pros, optimize their performance and heal from injuries.
UCSF alum Jenny Qi, PhD ’17, shares a poem from her first book, Focal Point
Explore the power of psychedelic therapy to treat the ailing human mind with international expert Carhart-Harris, who joined UCSF in 2021 as the Metzner Distinguished Professor and director of the new Neuroscape Psychedelics Division. Discover what his comparison of psilocybin with an antidepressant revealed on the Aug. 19 episode.
A “help each other” mindset drew Madalene Mandap to Anchorage and the Southcentral Foundation.
Does your rambunctious teen seem like an animal? You may be on to something. Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD ’87, and science writer Kathryn Bowers reveal startling similarities between humans and animals in young adulthood.
Since the early months of the pandemic, physicians throughout UCSF have pitched in to help support hundreds of long COVID patients.
UCSF neurologist Gil Rabinovici, MD, explains the controversy and shares why he thinks Alzheimer’s care is entering a new era “regardless of whether aducanumab proves to be a blockbuster or a bust.”
UCSF’s David Julius won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on pain sensation. “It was really a shock,” he says.
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine, has been an ardent voice for science during the coronavirus pandemic.
UCSF experts share their favorite science-based, judgment-free tips.
Americans save billions of dollars using lower-cost generics instead of brand-name drugs. Are they as effective?
A student-run clinic that offers forensic medical evaluations helps asylum-seekers escape extreme violence and persecution.
A concerted research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.
Keith Yamamoto, PhD, UCSF’s director of precision medicine, explains how a new tool – a knowledge network – will transform health care.
How neuroscientists harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to give a paralyzed man back his voice.
For patients with skin cancer & facial sarcoma, reconstructing the face with skin grafted from the leg may result in poor color match. A new technique pioneered by UCSF surgeons uses pigmented tissue to achieve a better match.
Helen Diller Family Cancer Research BuildingExperts from UCSF Health will present new research and clinical findings at the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, the world’s largest and most
The UCSF initiative aims to increase the effectiveness and availability of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy for lymphoma patients.
Spending time under the sun may raise the risk for skin cancer, but a new study led by UCSF and the Australian National University shows that for children and young adults, sun exposure may protect against multiple sclerosis.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland has received the largest research trial grant in its history to launch an innovative clinical trial that aims to cure sickle cell disease.
Hoping to discover a new approach to treating depression, UCSF researchers looked at mitochondrial proteins and found that people with untreated depression have significantly lower levels of these proteins. New hypotheses emerge about the relationship between depression and the function of the brain’s energy-hungry neurons.