We Must Learn from Our Past
A look at past outbreaks offers guidance on bringing the current one to an end – and on thwarting the next one.
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Give to UCSFA look at past outbreaks offers guidance on bringing the current one to an end – and on thwarting the next one.
When future historians look back on this moment, they will draw many conclusions from our response to this crisis. Here are five big lessons that UCSF experts already see taking shape.
Joel Ernst, MD, addresses key questions about how vaccine development works and why vaccines are especially important in the case of COVID-19.
The pandemic has led to a sudden rise in discrimination against people of Asian descent.
Communities of color have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in an outcry against police brutality. Both issues have roots in the same problem.
How I learned to use social media to advance the public’s understanding of COVID-19.
Scientists have developed a prototype tool based on 3D facial imaging that could shorten years undergoing medical tests and waiting for a diagnosis for rare genetic diseases.
A new study from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals suggests that for some hospitals, video visits may become a permanent feature of the patient-provider landscape.
Vigorously embracing their leadership roles, our faculty members are coming together to tackle this public health crisis from all angles.
Serving the UCSF research community, RAP is a campus-wide program that facilitates intramural research funding opportunities offering basic, clinical and translational science research types of grant mechanisms.
Scientists at UCSF are exploring how we can improve our bodies – now and in the future – with science that sounds like sci-fi.
Basic scientist Zena Werb, who has studied cancer cells in UCSF labs for more than four decades, shares her take on the future of cancer medicine.
With the global population of seniors projected to reach 1.5 billion by 2050, it will be more important than ever to reduce the burden of age-related disease. In the future, science will allow us to intervene in the aging process to make this a reality, according to geriatrician John Newman.
Scientists have documented the influence of information overload on attention, perception, memory, decision-making, and emotional regulation. But the same technologies contributing to the cognition crisis could help solve it, argues neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley.
Advances in medicine and public health have dramatically extended the lifespan of hearts, lungs, and other vital organs. But for women, the ovaries remain a stubborn exception. That may soon change, says fertility expert Marcelle Cedars.
A future in which precision medicine benefits everyone is not guaranteed. For that to happen, UCSF experts argue, the health care industry must first tackle today’s health disparities, including differences in disease outcomes and access to care based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Brain imaging of pathological tau-protein reliably predicts the location of future brain atrophy in Alzheimer’s patients a year or more in advance.
With the rise of “direct-to-consumer” DNA tests, investigating your genes is easier than ever. But taking one of these tests may not be right for you, says UCSF professor Kathryn Phillips, PhD, who studies new health care technologies.
From international awards for high-caliber research to groundswell movements for social change, this past year was an eventful one for the UCSF community.
With a $106 million gift from the Weill Family Foundation, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and the University of Washington have launched the Weill Neurohub to speed the development of new therapies for diseases and disorders that affect the brain and nervous system.
UC San Francisco and the Translational Research Institute for Space Health are co-sponsoring the inaugural Space Health Innovation Conference to advance research and scientific understanding of how space travel impacts health.
An algorithm developed by scientists at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley did better than two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans—an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients with TBI, strokes and aneurysms.
UCSF is launching a new center to accelerate the application of AI technology to radiology.
Tens of thousands of Americans suffer pneumothorax each year, a potentially life-threatening condition that is sometimes overlooked in busy emergency rooms.
Researchers devised “smart” cells that behave like tiny autonomous robots which may be used to detect damage and disease, and deliver help at just the right time and in just the right amount.
UC Berkeley and UCSF announced a collaboration with Janssen Research & Development to launch a new data science fellowship program.
Pioneering test called metagenomic next-generation sequencing shown to identify infections better than any standard clinical method.
The intervention, an app called MediTrain, uses a closed-loop algorithm that tailors the length of meditation sessions to the abilities of the participants.