Taming the Global AIDS Epidemic
After heading the Obama administration’s global effort on AIDS, Eric Goosby is returning to his roots at UCSF to apply his experiences to improving public health programs.
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UCSF to Share Global Health 2035 Report on Dec. 17
The UCSF community is invited to join global health leaders from UCSF and The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health to learn about a major new report on December 17.
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UCSF Child Oncologists Shave Heads to Fight Cancer
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UCSF Scientist Wins $89M Grant to Study Anal Cancer In HIV-Infected People
A UCSF investigator has won an eight-year grant from the National Cancer Institute for a major investigation into anal cancer, a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease largely concentrated among people with HIV.
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Join San Francisco Launch of Global Health 2035
UCSF Global Health Sciences and The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health invite the community to the San Francisco launch of a major new report: Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation.
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Drug Strategy Blocks a Leading Driver of Cancer
The protein in cells that most often drives the development of cancers has eluded scientists’ efforts to block it for three decades — until now.
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Digging Deeper Into Cancer
Precision Medicine Pillar No. 2: Basic Discovery. The long path to developing potent new treatments often starts with an observation in the lab that then leads to a question about a fundamental life process.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Child Oncologists to Participate in Head-Shaving Fundraiser
In a bold demonstration of support for children fighting cancer, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital will host a St. Baldrick’s Foundation signature head-shaving event where several doctors will go bald to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer research.
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Chancellor Sends Message of Support to Those Affected by Philippines Typhoon
In the wake of the devastating typhoon in the Philippines, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann sent out a message to the campus community.
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Genetic Discovery Could Help Guide Doctors’ Treatment of Bladder Cancers
A UCSF-led team of scientists has discovered that a gene mutation found in some bladder cancers is indicative of low-risk tumors that are unlikely to recur or progress after surgery.
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Cell Growth Discovery Has Implications for Targeting Cancer
The way cells divide to form new cells – to support growth, to repair damaged tissues, or simply to maintain our healthy adult functioning – is controlled in previously unsuspected ways, UCSF researchers have discovered.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Former Olympic Swimmers Visit UCSF to Raise Funds for Pediatric Cancer Care
Former Olympic swimming legends are coming to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital to meet with young patients in the hospital’s school room.
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UCSF Awarded $20M Federal Grant on Tobacco Regulatory Sciences
UCSF will receive a five year, $20 million grant as part of a first-of-its-kind tobacco science regulatory program by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health.
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International Surgeons Boost Trauma Skills at UCSF Summit
UCSF's fifth annual trauma summit, held at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, drew dozens of surgeons from developing countries who came to learn cutting-edge techniques.
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Thyroid Cancer Biopsy Guidelines Should Be Simplified, Researchers Say
A team led by UCSF researchers has called for simplified guidelines on when to biopsy thyroid nodules for cancer, which they say would result in fewer unnecessary biopsies.
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Global Health Sciences Honors Latest Graduating Class and Retiring Director
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Sugar Helps Scientists Find and Assess Prostate Tumors
A natural form of sugar could offer a noninvasive way to precisely image tumors and determine whether cancer medication is effective using new technology developed at UCSF in collaboration with GE Healthcare.
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Researchers Discover Leukemia's Role in Inhibiting Immune Cell Development
UCSF’s Emmanuelle Passegué, an expert on how the blood system arises during development, recently led a study in which researchers discovered how leukemia, a blood cancer, can gain a stronghold in bone marrow and inhibit the development of normal immune cells.
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Panel Urges Lung Cancer Screening For Millions Of Americans
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Major Changes Urged for Cancer Screening and Treatment
A group of scientists convened by the National Cancer Institute and chaired by a UCSF breast cancer expert is proposing a major update of the way the nation approaches diseases now classified as “cancer.”
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Stem Cell Discovery Furthers Research on Cell-Based Therapy and Cancer
Stem-cell researchers at UCSF have found a key role for a protein called BMI1 that may help scientists direct the development of tissues to replace damaged organs in the human body.
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Deadliest Cancers May Respond to New Drug Treatment Strategy
UCSF researchers have found a way to knock down cancers caused by a tumor-driving protein called “myc,” paving the way for patients with myc-driven cancers to enroll in clinical trials for experimental treatments.
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Aspirin May Fight Cancer by Slowing DNA Damage
Aspirin is known to lower risk for some cancers, and a new UCSF-led study points to a possible explanation, with the discovery that aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells in at least one pre-cancerous condition.
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Free Skin Cancer Screening Draws Hundreds on Sunny San Francisco Day
The turnout for this year's free skin cancer screening hosted by the UCSF Department of Dermatology made it one of the most successful. The blazing Saturday sun may have been an appropriate reminder about the importance for getting checked.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Offers Free Skin Cancer Screening
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UCSF Students Form Nonprofit to Improve Health in Nicaragua
UCSF classmates Noah Hawthorne and Kris Coontz graduated this month from the School of Medicine after starting a nonprofit dedicated to improving health care for people in Nicaragua.
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Sleep Problems Linked to Increased Prostate Cancer Risk
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Low-Risk Skin Cancers Often Treated Too Aggressively in Elderly, Study Finds
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Tick-Borne Lone Star Virus Identified through New Super-Fast Gene Sequencing
The tick-borne Lone Star virus has been conclusively identified as part of a family of other tick-borne viruses called bunyaviruses, which often cause fever, respiratory problems and bleeding, according to new research led by scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF).
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Should Old, Sick Patients Get Skin Cancer Surgery?