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<p>The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences at the National Institutes of Health has awarded nearly a half-million dollars to UCSF's Clinical and Translational Science Institute for a collaborative research project on oral cancer.</p>
The Regional Cancer Center at ValleyCare and UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center have joined forces to enhance patient care and improve access to top level medical experts.
The extraordinary career of the MAA’s Alumnus of the Year
Expert advice on how to manage your fear of dentistry.
How UCSF is supporting science teachers and redefining the chance of academic success for disadvantaged students.
A few of the many UCSF projects underway across the globe.
A tiny, translucent zebrafish that glows green when its liver makes glucose has helped an international team of researchers identify a compound that regulates whole-body metabolism and appears to protect obese mice from signs of metabolic disorders.
Aside from some challenges, Harry Drake is a happy, active, carefree boy whose life was saved with a bone marrow transplant at UCSF.
<p>San Francisco 49ers legends Joe Montana and Dwight Clark and R&B singer/songwriter Robin Thicke helped ring in the holiday season last week at the fifth annual 555 Holiday Tree Lighting, where UCSF's inaugural community award was presented.</p>
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis — a discovery offers new hope for the millions who suffer from this debilitating disease for which there is no cure.
<p>UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes will observe World AIDS Day on December 3 with a symposium featuring emerging investigators working to combat the disease.</p>
<p>UCSF employees who show their UCSF identification badge can work out for free from December 1 through the 12 at UCSF fitness centers on the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses.</p>
<p>Stem cell “banks” could serve as a valuable resource for emerging treatments in the field of regenerative medicine, though challenges remain to making them a reality, according to international experts who recently gathered at UCSF.</p>
<p>Six UCSF researchers have been selected this year as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for scientific work or socially distinguished efforts to advance science and its applications.</p>