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  • A CRISPR Approach to Neurodegenerative Diseases

    The Byers Award recognizes outstanding research by faculty members in the middle of their careers. Martin Kampman’s honorary 2025 lecture is titled “A CRISPR approach to neurodegenerative diseases.”

    An attendee to the Byers Lecture event wears a virtual headset as he explores a cellular model on a computer screen.
  • Visual Migraine Symptoms Linked to Tiny Brain Lesions

    Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these

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  • Why Do Some Brain Regions Resist Alzheimer’s?

    It’s been recognized for some time that Alzheimer’s disease affects brain regions differently and that tau — a protein known to misbehave — plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps

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  • This is How AI Can Help Us Make New Medicines Faster

    UCSF researchers recently created the world's first shape-shifting synthetic proteins using artificial intelligence (AI). The breakthrough opens the door to developing entirely new proteins that could, one day, produce medicines to stop diseases like cancer.

    researchers work in a labratory
  • UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55

    Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and clinical bioinformatics — died on June 13 at the age of 55.

    Headshot of Atul Butte.
  • The Health Technology Podcast

    Curious about the future of health care? This UCSF Rosenman Institute podcast explores big ideas like at-home tests for early cancer detection and the next wave of weight loss treatments. Hear insights from the front-line innovators and entrepreneurs tackling health’s biggest challenges.

  • Finding HIV: A Swipe in the Right Direction

    What do Tinder and the immune system have in common? Both swipe to find the perfect match, but instead of love, the immune system is hunting virus-infected cells. UCSF PhD student Sophia Miliotis explains it all in her clever, three-minute Grad Slam talk – and made history as UCSF’s first-ever winner of the UC-wide competition. Watch it now on UCSF’s YouTube channel.

  • On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters

    Bonnie Tsui’s latest book is a “celebration of musculature ... vivid, thought-provoking, undeniably fascinating,” according to Kirkus Reviews. She researched it by visiting UCSF’s Anatomy Learning Center with Amber Fitzsimmons, DPTSc ’13, chair of physical therapy, as her guide, uncovering how the perception of muscle shapes cultural ideas of power and beauty.

  • Maria Lopez, PharmD ’01: Community Pharmacy Pioneer

    Maria Lopez, PharmD ’01, didn’t just want to own a pharmacy – she wanted to redefine what one could be. “I wanted to create something different, something more personal,” says Lopez, the 2025 Alumni Humanitarian Service Award winner.

  • Open Smiles

    “With this piece, I wanted to reflect the creativity and collaboration that make offering care to these children possible,” says artist Rachel Howard of her collage. It depicts a UCSF School of Dentistry partnership that uses telehealth to bring preventive dental care to kids in rural schools.

    Colorful watercolor, collage-style illustration of a red school building and a dentist and dental hygienist perform dental work; in the background are the silhouettes of young school children.
  • Five Questions for Joanne Chun

    The School of Pharmacy’s Joanne Chun, PharmD ’93, PhD ’96, leads a new master’s degree program focused on AI’s transformation of drug discovery and development.

    Joanne Chun stands in front of a pink background in a colorful, pink and yellow, hand-knitted, patterned sweater.
  • 7 Ways UCSF Is Exploring the Eyes

    Researchers and clinicians are advancing the science of sight to ensure the health of these complex and crucial organs.

    Graphic illustration of an eye.
  • Can Music Benefit Our Brains?

    An expert in cognitive neuroscience shares the ways that music may help flex our neurons, plus her top tips for a music-filled life.

    Illustration of an older woman playing a brain-shaped piano.
  • He Discovered What Drives MS

    The Oscar of science: Stephen Hauser’s dogged determination to defeat multiple sclerosis has earned him a Breakthrough Prize, one of science’s top honors.