Why Old Brains Never Die: A Conversation with UCSF Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich
Keeping an old brain young takes a jolt of novelty and a hunger for change...
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UCSF Celebrates Opening of Jeffrey Modell Center for Primary Immunodeficiency
UCSF opened the Jeffrey Modell Foundation Diagnostic Center, one of the few centers of its kind in the world.
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UCSF announces new child, adolescent mental health center that will serve as national model for growing crisis in youth services
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has received one of the largest single donations ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services
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The Pritzker Center at UCSF Launched
UCSF has announced that a $25 million donation, one of the largest ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services, will jump-start the creation of a comprehensive program dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of Bay Area youths, regardless of socioeconomic status.
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Campus Honors Exemplary Service at Founders Day Luncheon
Faculty, staff and students were recognized for their outstanding efforts at UCSF and in the community at the annual Founders Day Luncheon on May 11.
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House Veterans' Affairs Committee PTSD Symposium
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AHVC Celebrates First Anniversary
The UCSF Asian Heart and Vascular Center (AHVC) celebrated its first year of Asian-focused care, outreach and education recently during a celebration at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion.
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Combination Malaria Therapy Effective in Treating African Children
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Cracking Code of Rare Disorder May Aid MS Fight
A UCSF geneticist recently identified a gene that triggers a rare disorder resembling multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Using Magnets to Perform Delicate Procedures
More than 20 years ago, UCSF pioneered cardiac ablation surgery to help patients with erratic heartbeats by zapping their hearts. Now they've opened an impressive new high-tech surgery suite to improve this surgery.
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CFAR to Host Mentoring Research Symposium
The campus community is invited to attend the Second Annual Mentoring Research Symposium on May 24 and 25 at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.
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Battling Hospital-Acquired Infections
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UCSF Researchers Engineer Cells to Change Shape and Movement
Scientists have carried out a bioengineering feat that advances the possibility of "reassembling" and reprogramming living cells to serve as mini-robots in the body to treat disease.
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Impact of the Iraq War
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Science, Ethics and Censorship
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UCSF Teams Rally Walkers for AIDS Walk San Francisco
Artists to design the UCSF event T-shirt and walkers are sought for San Francisco AIDS Walk on July 15.
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AIDS/LifeCycle Rider Shares Personal Reason for Pedaling
UCSF's Shannon Webb says she's empowered to make a difference in the lives of people living with HIV and AIDS.
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Breastfeeding, Brain Development and Chemical Poisons: Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich
Are chemical poisons concentrated in breast milk behind the rise in autism?
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UC Regents approve fundraising campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
The University of California Board of Regents today approved a proposed campaign to raise at least $500 million toward the development of the first phase of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.
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UCSF sponsors special college planning event on June 9
Eighth-grade students and their parents are invited to a special college planning workshop and fair sponsored by UCSF on Saturday, June 9. All Bay Area families are invited to this free event.
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UC Regents Approve Fundraising Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
The UC Board of Regents today approved a proposed fundraising campaign to raise at least $500 million toward the development of the first phase of UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.
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UCSF Teach-in Focuses on Health Effects of Iraq War
UCSF held its first teach-in on the Iraq war recently, drawing about 500 people from the campus and community to hear about its consequences.
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Local Middle School Gets Structure to Protect Kids from Sun
Once relegated to the basement to eat lunch on hot, sunny days, now students at the KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy can eat alfresco under a shaded structure.
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San Francisco VA researcher receives top Veterans Affairs Award
Michael Weiner, MD, a pioneering brain imaging researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC), is a recipient of the 2006 William S. Middleton Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Smokeless Cannabis Delivery Device Found Efficient and Less Toxic
A smokeless cannabis-vaporizing device delivers the same level of active therapeutic chemical and produces the same biological effect as smoking cannabis, but without the harmful toxins, according to UCSF researchers.
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National Cancer Institute's Chief of Metabolism to Deliver Gladstone Distinguished Lecture
A physician-scientist whose research has directly impacted the treatment of patients with immunodeficiency, autoimmune disease and cancer, will deliver the Gladstone Distinguished lecture on May 22.
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Learning Cut-and-Paste Rules to Fight a Deadly Fungus
Vaginal and oral yeast infections caused by <i>Candida</i> are rarely serious -- but in those with weak immune defenses the fungus can rapidly change, spread and even kill. A young UCSF researcher is beginning to learn how.
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New Clinical Director Envisions "Fully Connected" Intensive Care Nursery
Yao Sun, a neonatologist and perinatologist, has joined the University as the director of Clinical Programs for the William H. Tooley Intensive Care Nursery at UCSF Children's Hospital.
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Leaders Discuss Universal Health Care at UCSF Women's Health Summit
The National Center of Excellence in Women's Health co-hosted a summit yesterday to bring together leaders in the community for a "day of learning and dialogue."
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UCSF to Host Integrative Medicine Forum
The campus community is invited to the 9th Annual UCSF Integrative Medicine Forum on May 18 and 19 at the Parnassus campus.