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.”
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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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The Most Effective Diabetes Drugs Don’t Reach Enough Patients Yet
A study found that the newer generation of much more effective diabetes medications are reaching only a fraction of the patients who are recommended to take them based on new guidelines.
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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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Meet the Unsung Hero Playing a ‘Small Part’ in Dental Students’ Success
This is part of our UCSF People series, highlighting employees from across UCSF with diverse roles and backgrounds through a day in their work life. Here we meet David Gonzalez, Ambulatory Care, administrative coordinator, in the School of Dentistry.
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How Much Can You Safely Drink? Here’s What to Know
Cardiologist Gregory Marcus answers questions about how much alcohol consumption is actually harmful to us.
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Mental Health and Poverty are Top Concerns for East Bay Residents
Alameda County community members have identified mental health issues, systemic inequities, and safety as top health challenges their children face, according to a triennial report by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland.
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UCSF Health Recognized for Treatment of Rare Kidney Stone Disease
The Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation (OHF) has accepted UCSF Health into its OHF Care Center Network recognizing the health system’s dedication to providing high-quality medical care, resources,
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How State Bans Increase Costs and Delay Abortion Care
People in states that have banned abortion were more than twice as likely to receive them later in pregnancy, according to a new study.
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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.
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UCSF Leads Statewide Efforts to Improve Dementia Care, Diagnosis
A critical step in meeting the needs of the growing aging population is early recognition of cognitive decline. In California, women who live to be 65 or older have a one in four chance of developing
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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.
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Novel Therapy Saves Patient with Severe Heart Inflammation
A new class of drugs that target inflammation can treat acute fulminant myocarditis patients.
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Could a Busier Social Life Be a Very Early Sign of Alzheimer’s?
Many experts believe that social isolation is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, but a new study found that the disease may make them more sociable rather than less — at least in the early stages.
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Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds
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What Is Gender-Affirming Care? Your Questions, Answered
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Science Clears the Way to Treating the Trickiest Bladder Cancers
Scientists found a way to identify and possibly treat a mysterious type of bladder cancer that affects up to 1 in 4 cases.
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COVID ‘Razor Blade Throat’ Rises as New Subvariant Spreads in California
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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.
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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.
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How the Funds Raised at AIDS Walk Help UCSF’s HIV Research and Programming
UC San Francisco’s ties to AIDS Walk San Francisco go back decades. But the funds raised at each event, including this year’s walk, will advance critical HIV research, care, and programming at the
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How Does Marijuana Affect Our Bodies?
What scientists are learning about weed’s health effects might come as a surprise.
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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.
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Why Is Discovery Research So Important?
Neuroscientist Grae Davis, PhD, unpacks why public understanding of science matters.
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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.