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Archive: UCSF Names Brian Smith as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
The role is responsible for ensuring that managers in all functional areas are accountable for maintaining compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
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Archive: Gene Discovery Solves 51-Year-Old Clinical Mystery
The cause of the pancreatic inflammation plaguing a rural California family has been a medical mystery since it was first described 51 years ago. Now genetic sleuth-work by researchers from UC San Francisco and the University of Chicago has solved the mystery: pointing to a novel gene mutation as the cause of the family’s inherited pancreatitis.
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Archive: Could AI Beat Radiologists at Spotting Stroke?
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Archive: UCSF Undertakes Comprehensive Review to Raise Bar for LGBTQ Healthcare Nationwide
The work is an important part of the continual process of improvement across the UCSF Health system.
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Archive: UCSF Tops US News Global University Rankings in 9 Research Areas
Now in its sixth year, the Best Global Universities rankings focus on schools’ academic research and reputation.
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Archive: Marijuana and Vaping: Shadowy Past, Dangerous Present
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Archive: UCSF finds major clue to the cause of sudden-onset paralysis in children
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Archive: AI Rivals Expert Radiologists at Detecting Brain Hemorrhages
An algorithm developed by scientists at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley did better than two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans—an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients with TBI, strokes and aneurysms.
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Archive: American Indians May Have Higher Odds for A-Fib
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Archive: ‘Missing’ Virus Detected in Dozens of Children Paralyzed by Polio-Like Illness
Research team has detected the immunological remnants of a common seasonal virus in spinal fluid from dozens of patients diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). The findings provide the clearest evidence to date that AFM is caused by an enterovirus (EV) that invades and impairs the central nervous system.
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Archive: 4 UCSF Faculty Elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2019
Four UCSF faculty members are among the 10 new members and 10 international members elected this year to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
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Archive: Virtual Reality View of Mutations Can Reveal Better Ways to Treat Cancer
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Archive: ‘If you’re gonna rodeo, you’re gonna get hurt’: Bay Area doctor helps riders bounce back
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Archive: A New Gene Helps Explain Why Some People Need Less Sleep
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Archive: Horses as Healers: UCSF's pilot program pairs cancer survivor with horses
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Archive: Caught in the Act: Study Catches Brain Circuits as They Rewire
UCSF scientists have caught brain circuits in the act of rewiring themselves to change how they respond to sensory input.
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Archive: ‘Short Sleep’ Gene Prevents Memory Deficits Associated with Sleep Deprivation
The UCSF scientists who identified the two known human genes that promote “natural short sleep” have now discovered a third, and it’s also the first gene that’s ever been shown to prevent the memory deficits that normally accompany sleep deprivation.
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Archive: NIH-Funded Research Consortium to Target Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year, multi-investigator research grant expected to total more than $63 million to Mayo Clinic and UC San Francisco, to advance treatments for frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
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Archive: Chancellor Announces Four Goals for UCSF’s Future in 2019 State of the University Address
The speech, titled “Here and Now,” recapped his five years leading the University and reflected on UCSF’s unique place on the timeline of accelerated discovery in science.
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Archive: UCSF’s Parnassus Heights Campus Plan to Enhance Neighborhood, Energize Health Sciences
UCSF has released its plan for transforming its historic Parnassus Heights campus into a premier health sciences and community destination over the next several decades.
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Archive: UCSF to Host Fourth Annual Veterans Open House and Job Fair
To allow veterans and military service members to get to know the UC San Francisco community and consider UCSF as an employer of choice, the University will host its fourth annual Veterans Open House
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Archive: Dementia Spreads via Connected Brain Networks
Scientists used maps of brain connections to predict how brain atrophy would spread in individual patients with frontotemporal dementia, adding to growing evidence that the loss of brain cells associated with dementia spreads via the synaptic connections between established brain networks.
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Archive: MEDIA ADVISORY: UCSF Chancellor’s 2019 State of the University Address
Chancellor Sam Hawgood will deliver his sixth State of the University address, reflecting on the extraordinary confluence of science and technology in the Bay Area that is generating unprecedented advances in biomedical science and the development of new therapies.
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Archive: UCSF researchers sift through garbage in parking lots to find out what kids are smoking
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Archive: UCSF Launches Artificial Intelligence Center to Advance Medical Imaging
UCSF is launching a new center to accelerate the application of AI technology to radiology.
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Archive: Buying Junk Food With Taxpayer Dollars: Whether Interventions to Encourage Healthy Purchasing Work
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Archive: UCSF Receives 10 NIH Grants to Study Pain and Opioid Addiction
UCSF researchers have received 10 grants from the NIH’s HEAL Initiative, which aims to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis.
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Archive: E-Cigarettes, Tobacco and Cannabis Products Are Littering High Schools
High schools in the San Francisco Bay Area are being contaminated by plastics and toxic litter from e-cigarettes, cannabis products and combustible tobacco products such as cigarettes and cigarillos.
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Archive: Abortion Laws Must Be Based on Science. The Louisiana Law Before the Supreme Court is Not | Opinion