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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

The second round of funding opportunities for the Technology Development Award from the University of California Center for Accelerated Innovation (UC CAI) has begun. Pre-applications are due August 22, and all faculty at UC campuses in Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco are

UC San Francisco is among the top universities in the world yet again, ranking second in clinical medicine and pharmacy and fifth in life sciences in the 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Top Universities, Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy Top Universities, Life and Agriculture

It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us – which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold – may very well be affecting both our cravings and moods to get us to eat what they want, and often are driving us toward obesity. In an article published this week in the journal

Osteoporosis drugs known as bisphosphonates may not protect women from breast cancer as had been thought, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco. The drugs’ protective effect was widely assumed after several observational studies showed that women who took them were less

New research partly led by UC San Francisco-affiliated scientists suggests that one in 10 cancer patients would be more accurately diagnosed if their tumors were defined by cellular and molecular criteria rather than by the tissues in which they originated, and that this information, in turn, could