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Futuristic Stethoscope Attachment To Go Into Clinical Trials
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Carla Perissinotto: Keeping Seniors Healthy at Home
Carla Perissinotto, MD, MHS, is a Geriatrician who helps people live longer, more comfortable, more fulfilling lives. She works with elderly patients through UCSF Care at Home, which provides medical care to home bound older adults.
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Mozziyar Etemadi: Turning Simple Gadgets into Life-Saving Devices
Mozzi worked with Larry Rand, MD, to develop the Smart Diaphragm, a device to detect early signs of preterm birth, which received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2014.
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Dean Schillinger: Helping Kids Slam Diabetes – with Poetry
Dean Schillinger, MD, a practicing physician at San Francisco General Hospital, worked with the slam poetry nonprofit, Youth Speaks, to create “The Bigger Picture”.
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo: Seeing Health as Social Justice
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, MAS is a general internist and cardiovascular epidemiologist whose research focuses on the interaction between social, behavioral, and biological factors that place individuals and communities at risk for poor health and inadequate healthcare.
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New Campaign Showcases UCSF Pride
We have launched a One UCSF web page to serve as a platform to magnify our pride in the work we do every day. We’re sharing the stories of people who exemplify UCSF's ideals – whose individual contributions demonstrate the drive, passion and intensity of UCSF.
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Elisabeth Wilson: Teaching the Heart of Medicine
Elisabeth Wilson, MD, MPH, isn’t one of those people who wanted to be a doctor since she was a child. A family illness propelled her into the world of medicine after working in the arts for many years.
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Osama Ahmed and Karuna Meda: From Petri Dish to Podcast
Osama and Karuna, along with fellow neuroscience student Bryan Seybold, produce and run a radio show called Carry the One Radio.
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Health Center Video Wall Engages Visitors
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Harrison Liu and Veronica Pessino: Building Future Scientists – with LEGO Bricks
Harrison (PhD candidate, Bioengineering) and Veronica (PhD candidate, Biophysics) are students who tackle the most complex scientific problems in a fun and novel way - using LEGO bricks.
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Joey Convento: Bringing Play to Work
Joey is the emcee and event producer for many of our events on campus including the Block Party, Black & White Gala, and various cultural celebrations.
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Shingo Kajimura: Using Good Fat to Fight the Bad
Shingo Kajimura, PhD, is a researcher who is studying the cells that cause obesity. He and his team are examining brown fat cell development and its role in controlling energy homeostasis.
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Sugar industry influenced research on cavity prevention
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Bay area researchers track dangerous malaria strain
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“Sugar Papers” Reveal Industry Role in 1970s Dental Program
A newly discovered cache of industry documents reveals that the sugar industry worked closely with the National Institutes of Health in the 1960s and ‘70s to develop a federal research program focused on approaches other than sugar reduction to prevent tooth decay in American children.
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UCSF Medical and Nursing Schools Top US News Rankings
Both UCSF’s School of Medicine and School of Nursing have earned top rankings in the U.S. News & World Report survey of the nation's best graduate schools.
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No regrets: Reclaiming abortion as a force for social good
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Keeping Your Hair in Chemo
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UC tuition-hike reversal not on regents' agenda
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Mood, Anxiety Disorders Common in Tourette Patients
A new study finds that the majority of those who seek treatment for Tourette syndrome will also be diagnosed with a second psychiatric disorder during their lifetimes, and often these disorders emerge earlier than in the general population
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Childhood Leukemia Study Reveals Disease Subtypes, New Treatment Option
A new study of acute lymphoblastic leukemia has revealed that the disease has two distinct subtypes, and provides preliminary evidence that about 13 percent of cases may be successfully treated with targeted drugs.
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The Path to Eradicating Ebola
Though the headlines have subsided, UCSF volunteers and experts are still hard at work fighting Ebola in West Africa and helping build better infrastructure that could stop another outbreak.
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Abnormal Brain Rhythms Tied to Problems with Thinking in Schizophrenia
UCSF researchers have provided new evidence that abnormal rhythmic activity in particular brain cells contributes to problems with learning, attention, and decision-making in individuals with schizophrenia.
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Gladstone Scientist Awarded International Prize in Epilepsy Research
Jeanne Paz, PhD, an assistant investigator at the UC San Francisco-affiliated Gladstone Institutes, has been awarded the prestigious Michael Prize, honoring her significant contributions to the field of epilepsy.
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Louisiana Law Would Drastically Limit Abortion Access
A Louisiana law that could close all of the state’s abortion facilities by requiring providers to have hospital admitting privileges would force three-quarters of the state’s women to travel 150 miles or more each way for services, an analysis by UCSF researchers has found.
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Protein May Be Key to Cancer’s Deadly Resurgences
New research finds a special protein may control the survival of deep, near-dormant cancer cells that allow tumors to regrow even after other cells have been eradicated.
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High School Students Help Grow ‘Genetically Engineered Machines’
A team of UCSF and high school students won "Best Presentation" at the most recent international "Genetically Engineered Machine" competition, where engineering meets biology.
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UCSF Schools Lead Nation Again In NIH Biomedical Research Funds
For the second year in a row, UCSF’s schools each received the most National Institutes of Health funding in their fields in 2014. See how the numbers break down.
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2014 NIH Funding: A Look at Top Recipients
A few highlights of how the National Institutes of Health funds support UCSF researchers in changing the way we approach health and health care.
