Erick Villalobos Named Director of Transportation Services at UCSF
Following a national search, Erick Villalobos has been named director of Transportation Services at UC San Francisco. His appointment is effective immediately.

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Give to UCSFFollowing a national search, Erick Villalobos has been named director of Transportation Services at UC San Francisco. His appointment is effective immediately.
Reducing consumption of added sugar has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days, according to a study by researchers at UCSF and Touro University California.
Alicia Fernandez’s passion for social justice began with escaping political persecution in her native Argentina. It strengthened when she became a physician to give underrepresented people a voice in determining their health.
Representing a new era in its patient care, the University is introducing UCSF Health, a health care system that expands the delivery of innovative, high-quality and high-value care to people throughout the Bay Area and beyond.
UCSF announces its 2015 Annual Campaign of the Employee Giving Program that enables faculty and staff members to support the causes they find most personally meaningful.
An advertising campaign shows UCSF’s clinical enterprise provides transformative care for patients, and the campaign carries a bigger message about the profound shift in national health care delivery.
UCSF Sandler Fellow Joseph Bondy-Denomy studies the native roles of CRISPR and anti-CRISPR proteins in bacteria and phages.
A new 900-square-foot UCSF Campus Store has opened in Millberry Union, selling university-branded merchandise as well as school supplies and other items requested by the campus community.
UCSF and Cisco have formed an initiative to jointly develop an interoperability platform for sharing health care information among multiple entities.
The late UCSF neuroscientist Allison Doupe, MD, PhD, will be honored by the Society for Neuroscience with the Patricia Goldman-Rakic Hall of Honor award at the society’s annual meeting in Chicago later this month.
Five UCSF faculty members are among the 70 new members elected to the National Academy of Medicine, formerly known as the Institute of Medicine.
Genetic ancestry, as well as facial characteristics, may play an important part in who we select as mates, according to an analysis from UCSF, Microsoft Research, Harvard, UC Berkeley and Tel Aviv University.
UCSF has closed escrow on the purchase of three properties from a single owner near its Mission Bay campus as a potential site to build critically needed, affordable housing for graduate students and trainees.
Health care providers must have detailed discussions with their older adult patients to better determine their true life expectancy, according to researchers at UCSF and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
UCSF has launched a collaboration with international pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) to promote early-stage research with the potential to translate into new therapies for cancer, obesity and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
To help stop the spread of antibiotic resistance, UCSF scientists are urging hospitals around the country to stop buying meat from animals that were given antibiotics for growth promotion.
Actress Goldie Hawn's recent visit to UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco highlighted the benefits of mindfulness in patients managing pain and stress.
In Mali, a new approach to patient care aims to decrease the nation's childhood mortality rate.
Sharecase is back! This free, peer-to-peer, educational expo will be held at Mission Bay Conference Center, on October 22.
UCSF’s leaders, past and present, gathered on Oct. 2 to remember Chancellor Emeritus Julius “Julie” R. Krevans, MD, who passed away earlier this year at the age of 91.
A coalition of leukemia researchers led by scientists from UCSF has discovered surprising genetic diversity in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML), a rare but aggressive childhood blood cancer.
Mary Naylor, UCSF’s Presidential Chair for 2015-16, will be visiting the campus in October to discuss her goals of catalyzing interdisciplinary research, education and practice on transitions in health and health care.