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<p>The UCSF Mission Bay campus has since its inception been a magnet for younger research faculty. Consider this evidence for the talents of young UCSF researchers: Year after year, young UCSF faculty have competed successfully for the National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award, one the most prestigious awards granted by the federal government’s leading biomedical research agency.</p>
<p>A decade after opening its first research building at San Francisco’s Mission Bay, UCSF has far surpassed its ambitious vision for a campus that today is an epicenter for science, health and hope.</p>
From the early 1800s until now, Mission Bay has undergone significant changes, including as a railroad yard for Southern Pacific Railroad Co. Now the land has become a hub of research and patient
<p>Ten years after the UCSF Mission Bay campus was established, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay – the key patient-care component of the campus – is only two years away from opening.</p>
<p>A decade after opening its first research building, UCSF Mission Bay is a vibrant, integrated campus that is home to three Nobel laureates and 2,500 UCSF faculty, clinicians, postdoctoral scholars and students.</p>
<p>University of California President Mark G. Yudof announced that will end his tenure as President of the University of California, effective Aug. 31, 2013.</p>
Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes – and a new study by a duo at UCSF demonstrates how having two attending surgeons in the operating room during spinal surgeries can benefit patients in multiple ways.
First trimester abortions are just as safe when performed by trained nurse practitioners, physician assistants and certified nurse midwives as when conducted by physicians, according to a new six-year study led by UCSF.
The risk of kidney failure is greater for people with chronic kidney disease who also have atrial fibrillation, one of the most common forms of irregular heart rhythm in adults, according to a new study by researchers at UCSF and the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research.
New research in Nature concludes the eye – which depends on light to see – also needs light to develop normally during pregnancy.
<p>Ten core facilities on campus have been selected to receive a collective $2 million in funds from the Chancellor’s office to expand and improve access to transformative research technologies across UCSF.</p>