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Joe DeRisi, co-drector of the new Chan Zuckerberg Biohub at Mission Bay, speaks about his vision for the Biohub and what researchers can look forward to.

A digital assessment platform designed to look and feel like a video game may successfully flag children with attention disorders.

Chronic pain and loss of bladder control are among the most devastating consequences of spinal cord injury.

Mothers who were raising children with autism and reported chronic stress were more likely to have high levels of “bad” cholesterol and lower levels of protective progenitor cells.

In order to help UCSF faculty, staff, students and trainees protect their and UCSF’s digital information, the University is celebrating National Cyber Security Awareness Month with a series of events that run through October.

Walter L. Miller, distinguished professor emeritus and former chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at UCSF, has been awarded the highest honor bestowed by the Endocrine Society.

UCSF researchers have devised a new term, “sudden neurological death,” to describe apparent sudden cardiac deaths that actually were due to neurological causes.

During National Campus Safety Awareness Month, UCSF reminds faculty, staff, students and trainees that it’s incumbent on everyone to be vigilant and to be informed about what’s happening during an emergency situation.

Jennifer Rosko, the director of Student Involvement and Programs at UCSF, has worked to create the structure and atmosphere for students to foster interprofessional relationships, thrive and be successful.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals are bringing together the cities of San Francisco and Oakland this week, as well as each city’s baseball team, to raise awareness of pediatric cancer.

UCSF Fresno recently launched two new training programs: the UCSF Fresno Hematology/Oncology Fellowship and the UCSF Fresno Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant (PA) Residency Program.

UCSF will be holding free drop-in flu shot clinics for its employees, students and volunteers starting Monday, Sept. 19.

Bruce Alberts and a group of prominent scientists have begun the Rescuing Biomedical Research initiative to fix what they see as systemic flaws in the current biomedical research enterprise.

UCSF biochemist Bruce Alberts has received the 2016 Lasker~Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science, one of the highest honors in biomedicine.

San Francisco Giants’ catcher Buster Posey will be meeting with patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco this week, in honor of National Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month.

The Royal Society of Medicine will present the Richard T. Hewitt Award for distinguished achievement in the improvement of human health to Richard Feachem, director of the Global Health Group at the UCSF Global Health Sciences

A newly discovered cache of industry documents revealed that the sugar industry began working closely with nutrition scientists in the mid-1960s to single out fat and cholesterol as the dietary causes of coronary heart disease and to downplay evidence that sucrose consumption was also a risk factor.

Gut microbes present in some one-month-old infants predict a three-fold higher risk of developing allergic reactions by age two and asthma by age four.

UCSF's Resource Allocation Program, which offers a single online application process for a wide variety of intramural funding opportunities, is now inviting applications for the fall 2016 cycle.

As new students and returning ones start the 2016-17 school year at UCSF, several are sharing their back-to-school experiences (and a glimpse into their lives) on social media using the hashtag #UCSFBackToSchool.