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The over 2 million adolescents in juvenile detention in California now have a better chance of receiving the critical health care services they need upon reemergence from incarceration in large part because of the efforts of a first-year UCSF Pediatrics Department resident.
Funded by a $63,000 gift from the New York-based Li Foundation to the UCSF School of Pharmacy, Chinese scientists from Peking University will study the emerging field of systems biology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
UCSF researchers routinely publish groundbreaking research, write books, and provide context and commentary for scientific and medical news. Our job is to tell their stories, showcase their accomplishments, and highlight the implications and global consequences of their research for our readers.
Four UCSF faculty scientists are among the 65 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute announced today.
Scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI) have identified a previously unknown function of APOBEC3G (A3G), a protein that acts against HIV, a finding that may lead to new approaches for controlling HIV infection.
One of the biggest challenges lesbians face when seeking health care is the complexity of talking openly about health issues with a clinician without the stigma of judgment, disapproval, and condemnation or the fear of having care withheld.
New evidence surfaced Wednesday that a high-tech drug developed in the Bay Area offers significant hope to those afflicted with macular degeneration, a disease that can cause blindness.
Leading scientists from UCSF, UC Berkeley and Stanford will come together at Mission Bay on October 14 to talk about advances in cancer imaging.
The public is invited to join the conversation with the world's leading experts in medicine and the health sciences at UCSF's Mini Medical School for the community, which begins October 24.
David Julius, PhD, a pioneer in research clarifying the molecular basis of the sense of pain and temperature, has been named chair of the Department of Physiology in the UCSF School of Medicine.
This past Saturday night, UCSF's Asian Heart and Vascular Center offered free cardiovascular screenings to the public during the Chinatown Night Fair in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco.
In a press conference at Stanford on Monday, and reported later in the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>, one of the scientists who received the Nobel Prize for discovering how RNA can turn genes off credited early experiments by UCSF's Su Guo, PhD, for sparking the research.
Max Seibold, a son of the soil, left Oklahoma for a UCSF laboratory three years ago. What has happened since says much about the combustive power of science, stubbornness and stamina.
After six months of treatment at UCSF Children's Hospital, a teen is feeling better and learning to live with Multiple Sclerosis.
UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) have collaborated with Nikon Instruments Inc. to open the UCSF Nikon Imaging Center at the Mission Bay campus.
In 1999, UCSF broke ground for a new campus in San Francisco. The intent was to alleviate space restrictions on its primary campus, UCSF Parnassus Heights, and allow UCSF, world-renowned for its basic science research, clinical training and patient care, to stretch in ways that would allow it to enhance its performance.
Signaling a watershed moment in the evolution of University of California, San Francisco, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced that UCSF has received funding for a major new venture designed to accelerate the pace at which scientific discovery is translated into patient care.
The goal of a new institute at UCSF is to bring better therapies and preventive medicine to more people more quickly.
UCSF celebrates National Work and Family Month beginning at noon today with a workshop on the benefits of allowing flexible work schedules at Laurel Heights.
The pulse of translational research is quickening throughout UCSF. Among the numerous endeavors under way are several that represent different disease areas and tactics.
The J. David Gladstone Institutes is ranked North America's second "best place to work in academia," according to The Scientist magazine's annual survey, published in its October issue.
North Bay-based sticker company Mrs. Grossman's has chosen the Friend to Friend Specialty Shop in UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion as their primary beneficiary of sales from a new pink breast cancer awareness ribbon line being introduced in October to recognize National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
A difficult conundrum for the nation's transplant patients was aired September 22 when the news program <i>California Connected </i>featured UCSF's liver transplant program.
Nikon Instruments, UCSF and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) announced today the opening of a collaborative core microscopy imaging center to promote education and innovation in microscopy imaging.
UCSF will be one of the beneficiaries if voters approve Proposition 1D, the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006, on the November 7 ballot.
Mayor Gavin Newsom and Barbara and Gerson Bakar were among those attending Tuesday's grand opening of Bloomingdale's at the Westfield San Francisco Centre.
Putting on a few extra pounds during pregnancy has been thought to be a normal and healthy part of the gestational process. But what happens when a woman gains too much weight, or too little?
A team led by Bay Area scientists is one of five nationwide to receive a major grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to refine and standardize the technologies for identifying biomarkers in the blood -- specific proteins, and the patterns they make -- for the early detection of cancer.