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UCSF neurologist Stephen Hauser has been named the winner of its 2013 Charcot award, the top international prize for lifetime achievement in multiple sclerosis research.
Four individuals who work to improve human health around the world recently received the University’s most prestigious honor, the UCSF Medal, at the Founders Day Banquet.
The cellular gatekeepers that escort the most common pharmaceuticals into our cells continue to work within the cells as well, according to a UC San Francisco discovery that could transform drug design and lead to new ways to treat disease.
Higher education is experiencing explosive growth online, and 2013 promises to continue this trend, especially among top-tier universities through Massive Open Online Courses. UCSF is expanding its online learning programs to reach students around the world.
Five distinguished UCSF scientists, including three Nobel laureates, are being inducted into the prestigious inaugural class of fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Treating patients with cells may one day become as common as it is now to treat the sick with drugs made from engineered proteins, antibodies or smaller chemicals, according to UC San Francisco researchers who have outlined their vision of cell-based therapeutics as a “third pillar of medicine."
By stimulating one part of the brain with laser light, researchers at the National Institutes of Health and the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UCSF have shown that they can wipe away addictive behavior in rats – or conversely turn non-addicted rats into compulsive cocaine seekers.
UCSF Police report that on Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at about 10:50 a.m., a UCSF employee observed a suspect remove her purse from a cubby on the fourth floor of the Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center at the Rutter Center at UCSF Mission Bay.
UCSF has recently partnered with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley to form the Tri-Institutional Partnership, in an effort to promote collaborative research among the three institutions.
President Barack Obama has unveiled a bold public-private initiative to map the brain to gain greater insight on how we think, learn and remember and to better understand and treat diseases ranging from autism to schizophrenia.
UCSF has broken ground on “Mission Hall,” also known as the Global Health & Clinical Sciences Building, which will be a major new structure on the Mission Bay campus.
The Abundant Life Health Ministries Initiative is a partnership between UCSF and nearly 30 churches across the Bay Area to address health disparities of minority populations.
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have discovered that a certain type of DNA damage long thought to be particularly detrimental to brain cells can actually be part of a regular, non-harmful process.