UCSF Names Brian Smith as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
The role is responsible for ensuring that managers in all functional areas are accountable for maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
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University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFThe role is responsible for ensuring that managers in all functional areas are accountable for maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
Four UCSF faculty members are among the 10 new members and 10 international members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
The speech, titled “Here and Now,” recapped his five years leading the University and reflected on UCSF’s unique place on the timeline of accelerated discovery in science.
UCSF has released its plan for transforming its historic Parnassus Heights campus into a premier health sciences and community destination over the next several decades.
To allow veterans and military service members to get to know the UC San Francisco community and consider UCSF as an employer of choice, the University will host its fourth annual Veterans Open House
Chancellor Sam Hawgood will deliver his sixth State of the University address, reflecting on the extraordinary confluence of science and technology in the Bay Area that is generating unprecedented advances in biomedical science and the development of new therapies.
UCSF researchers have received 10 grants from the NIH’s HEAL Initiative, which aims to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.
The UCSF School of Nursing has unveiled a new mural that commemorates a diverse set of nurse heroes whose work and advocacy revolutionized health care and paved the way for diversity and inclusion in nursing.
UCSF Health has been named a 2019 “Leader in LGBTQ Health Care Equality.”
The NIH has awarded grants to Faranak Fattahi, Alexander Pollen, and Vasanth Vedantham to pursue highly innovative and unusually impactful biomedical research.
Ten finalists competed in the live event, hoping to impress the judges with snappy three-minute summaries of their research.
UCSF is conducting a comprehensive seismic review of its owned and leased buildings across the campus and clinical enterprise as part of its long history of working to better understand their seismic resiliency.
The UCSF Benioff Initiative for Prostate Cancer Research, made possible by a $35 million gift from Marc and Lynne Benioff, will bring together scientists and physicians who seek to push the boundaries of prostate cancer research and devise new strategies to combat the disease.
The fellowship recognizing early career scientists from groups underrepresented in the life sciences who have the potential to become leaders in academic research.
The center will be a a two-campus multidisciplinary clinical and research alliance between UCSF and UC Berkeley.
UCSF is deeply alarmed by a change in federal immigration policy that jeopardizes the life of one of our patients.
This fall, RAP introduces two new funding opportunities for neuroscience researchers, a new award for health services research, and grant supplements to support diversity and inclusion.
UCSF researchers aim to radically rethink the role of the microbiome in early life and develop new interventions aimed at preventing childhood diseases.
The gifts will launch new research initiatives on their respective campuses to leverage the growing science of the human microbiome.
Raphael Hirsch comes to UCSF from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where he served as chair of the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics.
A group of prominent University of California faculty say they will step away from the editorial boards of scientific journals published by Elsevier until the publishing giant agrees to restart negotiations.
UCSF is working on multiple fronts in efforts to continue improving staff engagement in its quest to be a great place to work.
A new website will help the UCSF community proactively plan their commute and navigate the increased traffic congestion in Mission Bay.
Jackson will join the leadership teams for both the campus and UCSF Health organizations providing people management expertise working with campus, Health and UC-wide colleagues, as well as with the University of California Office of the President.
Knight, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology, investigates how the brain senses the needs of the body and then generates specific behaviors to restore physiologic balance – sometimes in surprising ways.
UCSF has named Francesca Vega, a civic leader with a passion for community engagement and advocacy for public higher education, as vice chancellor for Community and Government Relations.
UCSF has appointed Won Ha, a communications professional whose experience includes advancing nonprofit health care and climate change advocacy, as vice chancellor for Communications.
It was through a cruel twist of fate that, in February 2017, Dr. Desikan was diagnosed with ALS, one of the very diseases that he studied.
Several hundred UC San Francisco staff, faculty, students and supporters joined the annual San Francisco AIDS Walk on Sunday to raise money for local AIDS organizations as well as show their support