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The award provides unrestricted funding of $1.25 million over five years to support Fujimori’s teaching and leadership roles and advance her quest to understand life’s fundamental chemistry.
In a special virtual town hall, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi joined UC San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, to discuss the role of science and science advocacy in shaping federal policy during a global pandemic, her leadership during these turbulent times, and lessons learned during her long tenure as the first and only female Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Recognizing that helping support the wellness of care providers was a unique and meaningful way they could contribute to the pandemic response, donors recently made a $1 million gift to create a COVID-19 Faculty and Staff Morale Support Fund.
Lindsey A. Criswell has been selected as the next director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
A vendor that UCSF uses for trend analysis of donations to the university informed us it had experienced an IT security incident in May 2020 that exposed some UCSF information.
UCSF won a Silver award from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in this year’s international competition recognizing exceptional communications and outreach from educational institutions.
David Ramsay, a former UCSF senior vice chancellor and president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) who since 2010 had served as associate director of the UCSF Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (IND), died June 18, 2020, after a short illness. He was 81.
Goldstein will replace Maureen Brodie, MA, CO-OP, who is retiring. The UCSF Office of the Ombuds provides alternative dispute resolution services for all members of the UCSF community, including faculty, staff, administrators, students, post-doctoral fellows and other trainees.
UCSF has awarded UCSF Medals to three national leaders, all of whom have advanced diversity and inclusion, including through mentorship that has helped to place more underrepresented voices in the sciences.
The University of California Board of Regents announced the appointment of Michael V. Drake, M.D., as the 21st president of UC’s world-renowned system.
As part of the Parnassus Heights campus, the new hospital will strengthen UCSF’s world-renowned clinical, research and training mission.
Colleagues are mourning the passing of Zena Werb, PhD, a giant in the field of cancer biology whose four decades of research at UCSF informed the rise of immunotherapy and other modern approaches to cancer treatment.
Dozens of UCSF infectious disease experts will present at the bi-annual International AIDS Conference, known this year as AIDS 2020.
Bertram Lubin, former president and chief executive officer of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on June 27, 2020.
UCSF IT staff detected a security incident that occurred in a limited part of the UCSF School of Medicine’s IT environment on June 1.
The Hellman Fellows Program and the University of California announced a plan to permanently support the Hellman Fellows Program on all 10 campuses in the UC system.
The University of California applauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Trump administration’s arbitrary attempt to end a program that allowed immigrants brought to the U.S. as children to live and work in the country they know as home.
On June 1, UCSF IT staff identified and stopped an unauthorized access of a limited part of the School of Medicine’s IT environment while the intrusion was occurring.
University of California announced that it has struck a transformative “open access” deal with Springer Nature, the world’s second largest publisher of academic journals.
The University of California Board of Regents unanimously endorsed Assembly Constitutional Amendment 5as well as the repeal of Proposition 209, which banned the consideration of race and gender in admissions decisions a quarter-century ago.
Members of the UCSF community have united in calls for racial justice in town halls, organized and joined protests on and off campus, and knelt in solidarity with black Americans following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.
Julius has used chili peppers, menthol, wasabi, and spider venom to research the molecular machines that allow us to feel heat, cold, inflammation and related physical sensations.
The Alumni Association of UC San Francisco has named 15 winners of the 2020 UCSF Campaign Alumni Awards.
The 2020 UCSF Founders Day Awards honored 13 faculty and staff for their service to UCSF, their public service, and excellence in nursing.
David Erle has been appointed as the director of CoLabs, a next-generation research hub based at the Parnassus Heights campus.
UC President Janet Napolitano issued a letter about the response to the significant financial impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on UC and the ongoing budgetary uncertainties.
Two UCSF faculty will lead the new institutes.
