UCSF scientists have begun moving into the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, which will bring together approximately 410 cancer researchers.

UCSF Medical Center is launching a web-based ad campaign to raise awareness of its expertise in cancer research and care.

Scientists are reporting two findings that could influence the way researchers screen for, treat and assess prognosis for women with locally advanced breast cancer, an aggressive form of the disease. One finding offers a critical message regarding treatment strategy, they say.

The Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative (MMTI) aims to promote collaborative research efforts and accelerate the transition of promising cancer therapies from the lab to the hospital.

US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman visited UCSF recently, saying that education may finally be getting the funds it deserves to repair the country’s broken school system.

UCSF’s Kevin Grumbach will receive an award today for excellence in cultivating community partnerships in higher education.

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) have established the Stephen and Nancy Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative, a research collaboration dedicated to translating basic science discoveries into new candidate drugs for testing in clinical trials.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and collaborators at Harvard Medical School have linked a specialized protein in human muscles to the process that clears glucose out of the bloodstream, shedding light on what goes wrong in type 2 diabetes on a cellular level.