The founder of a program dedicated to making medical technology and health care services accessible, affordable and financially self-sustaining will talk at UCSF on Nov. 1.

With the addition of six faculty members to the Institute of Medicine, UCSF now has 69 members of the prestigious institute.

UCSF offers a new fall line up of courses as part of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute beginning today.

The campus will kick off the season of sharing with its 2005 UCSF Charitable Giving Campaign, which runs from October 24 through November 4.

The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies today announced that it has elected Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology Director and Senior Investigator Warner C. Greene, MD, PhD, to its membership.

UCSF scientists have illuminated a key step in a signaling pathway that helps orchestrate embryonic development. The finding, they say, could lead to insights into the development of stem cells, as well as birth defects and cancers, and thus fuel therapeutic strategies.

Six UCSF faculty scientists are among 64 new members elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, the Institute announced today.

UCSF exceeded its fundraising goals as generous donors from the Bay Area and beyond responded, pushing the final total to $1,665,141,407.