University of California, San Francisco Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann M.D., will introduce a $100 million fundraising campaign on Tuesday designed to offset state spending cuts, UCSF said Monday. The effort will be highlighted during an April 24 ad... »
UCSF’s plan for blending bench research and treating real-life patients is coming together as labs and new science recruits move into a $200 million, 237,000-square-foot neuroscience center. The product of a unique private-public partnership, the five-... »
One of the oft-mentioned bridges across biotech’s “valley of death” -- that space in which promising technologies are just too new to win the funding necessary to take them to the next stage of development -- is disease foundations, patient advocacy gr... »
If nothing else, University of California, San Francisco, neuroscience researchers will have a stunning building in which they do stunning science. Click the image to start a slideshow on the new building. Starting this month and over the next couple o... »
White House names UCSF professor Grant Colfax, M.D., as AIDS policy chief »
QB3 took an early step Tuesday toward becoming — as director Regis Kelly calls it — “a United Nations of entrepreneurship.” Canadian Ambassador to the United States Gary Doer and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee cut a ceremonial ribbon opening the Canadian T... »
On March 1, the University of California system will start its own dedicated channel on YouTube. The UC system plans to run “15 minutes of fresh content” every week on the channel using San Bruno-based YouTube’s service. News on the channel will includ... »
When UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann started her Twitter account last month, she had two goals: do her own micro-blogging and never tweet about eating a tuna fish sandwich for lunch. The University of California, San Francisco’s ninth chancellor... »
The University of California and a union representing nearly 8,700 research and technical employees will contribute more into employees’ pension fund, according to a deal announced Monday. The move comes as the UC system, including UC Berkeley and UCSF... »
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann is proposing a new structure for her school, loosening the relationship between the healthcare-centric, graduate-level university and the University of California Office of the President. It's an ambitious move, b... »
These are tough times, and UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann knows that as much as anyone else. So Desmond-Hellmann told the University of California Board of Regents on Thursday that she’d like to see its chief medical school split off from the r... »
Everyone knows smoking is bad for you. Even President Franklin D. Roosevelt called cigarettes “coffin nails.” But the debate about whether marijuana is as harmful (or harmful at all) is far from over, and it still generates plenty of hot air. Now Unive... »
UCSF and drug maker Sanofi will work together in a $3.1 million pilot project to identify drug targets both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. It is the third to come out of a master agreement in January 2011 between the French company and the University of C... »
A group of UCSF scientists will seek chemical compounds that can be added to blood-forming stem cells and progenitor cells in cord blood to increase their population and boost cord blood treatments for adult patients. The $841,000, three-year program, ... »
A reception for the launch of a book about Genentech’s early days attracted a technology and finance Who’s Who of the time — guys who ended up with their names on the door like David Packard (Hewlett-Packard), David Morganthaler (Morganthaler Ventures)... »
