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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has promised $10.75 million to extend a ground-breaking UCSF project to help combat maternal mortality in Nigeria and India – two countries that comprise one-third of all maternal deaths worldwide.
<i>UCSF Today</i> is launching a series of stories highlighting the progress made in realizing the UCSF Strategic Plan.
Oakland A's first baseman and outfielder Nick Swisher visited UCSF last week as chair of Macy's holiday tree-lighting campaign to benefit UCSF Children's Hospital.
The campus community is invited to a four-hour symposium addressing health care disparities research on Tuesday, Oct. 23.
UCSF has launched a new website showcasing woodblock prints that provide a window into traditional Japanese attitudes toward illness, the human body, women, religion, and the West.
Sheila Antrum, RN, MSHA, has been named the new chief nursing and patient care services officer for UCSF Medical Center.
UCSF has hired an expert who has served in 23 disaster situations, including Hurricane Katrina and the attack upon the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
A person is 100 times more likely to get cancer at age 65 than at age 35. But new research reported today in the journal "Nature Genetics" identifies naturally occurring processes that allow many genes to both slow aging and protect against cancer in the much-studied C. elegans roundworm.
Researchers have identified a molecular pathway that plays a critical role in the growth of blood vessels.
Lindsey Criswell is hot on the trail of lupus...
The first of year-round staff appreciation events kicks off at the UCSF Parnassus campus.
UCSF will offer a series of lunchtime events at the Parnassus campus designed to promote leadership development among staff.
Two UCSF faculty scientists are among the 65 newly elected members to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced on Oct. 8.
The UCSF School of Nursing has launched a demonstration project to design and test nursing interventions to improve the quality of care in California nursing homes.
The Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco has initiated a Phase 2 clinical trial of an investigational vaccine for treating glioma, a recurrent cancer of the central nervous system that occurs primarily in the brain.
UC is conducting its annual disclosure of systemwide employee compensation for fiscal year 2006-2007, information which is considered a public record under the California Public Records Act.
The campus community is invited to attend a block party at UCSF Mission Bay on Wednesday.