The UCSF community is saddened at the passing of former UCSF faculty member William Rutter, PhD, whose collaborative and ...

A professor of physiological nursing explains the differences between genetic predisposition and lifestyle factors for type 2 ...

The Byers Award recognizes outstanding research by faculty members in the middle of their careers. Martin Kampman’s honorary ...

It’s been recognized for some time that Alzheimer’s disease affects brain regions differently and that tau — a protein known to misbehave — plays an important role in the disease. Normally, tau helps ...

Visual auras, like those that occur in migraines, may be signs of small injuries to the brain’s visual cortex, according to a clinical trial at UC San Francisco that tracked the appearance of these ...

A popular herbal supplement used by prostate cancer patients has been found to significantly reduce prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels—a protein in the blood that often indicates prostate ...

UC San FranciscoAI in Cancer Care, Targeted Therapies Among Cancer Conference Talks Research ...

Many believe dementia — a set of symptoms characterized by significant, inhibitory cognitive decline — is a normal side effect of aging. That said, while over 9.9 million new cases occur every year ...

UC San FranciscoPancreatic Cancer Spreads to Liver or Lung Thanks to This Protein Campus News ...

This is part of our UCSF People series, highlighting employees from across UCSF with diverse roles and backgrounds through a ...

A generation ago, most people with multiple sclerosis could expect to rely on walkers and wheelchairs or be limited to their bed within 15 years of diagnosis. Today, UC San Francisco’s discoveries are ...

The new Program of Historical Reconciliation (PHR) at UCSF aims to acknowledge past harms, especially in unethical research and experiments.