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Juliana Peña’s constant smile brightened the days of everyone she came across, even those who just caught a glance of her. At two-and-a-half years old, she passed away from neuroblastoma, a rare pediatric cancer. "As she was taking her last breaths, I promised Juliana that we would never stop

San Francisco’s Mission Bay district became a melting pot of celebrities, civic dignitaries, community members and assorted creatures of unknown species with dazzling outfits and daring dance moves, as the city marked the upcoming opening of the new UCSF Medical Center. Thousands joined in Saturday

Peter Walter, PhD, vividly remembers the atmosphere of "political insanity" that colored an otherwise happy youth in Cold War-era West Berlin, then a walled city that was itself encircled by the hostile territory of East Germany. "If you crossed that wall," he recalled, "you’d be shot at, and that

Peter Walter, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UC San Francisco, has received the 2014 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Popularly known as the “American Nobels,” the Lasker Awards are among the most prestigious honors in science and medicine. More about Peter Walter Peter Walter

Katie Kelley, MD, a gastrointestinal oncologist at UC San Francisco, has received the 2014 Cancer Clinical Investigator Team Leadership Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This highly competitive category was open to members at certified cancer centers only. The award, a $100,000

Our TEAM UCSF is growing and, so can you! Septembeard.org is a clever non-profit, founded by advocate Art Wagner, which raises funds for prostate cancer research by asking volunteers to grow beards during September, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. In 2013, UCSF received $60,000 from Septembeard to

Peter Carroll, MD, MPH, interim director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, stands outside the new UCSF Bakar Cancer Hospital at Mission Bay. Photo by Susan Merell Peter Carroll as a resident at UCSF in the early 1980s. In the 30 years he's been here, Carroll says he's seen