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Michael Bishop, Nobel-Winning Cancer Researcher, Has Died at 90

UC San Francisco Chancellor emeritus J. Michael Bishop, MD, a pioneering microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in ...
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Haven’t Heard of Lynch Syndrome? You’re Not Alone.

The UCSF Lynch Syndrome Center is a leading Northern California clinic specializing in Lynch syndrome, a common genetic ...
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UCSF’s New Certification Raises Bar for Spine Surgery Excellence

UCSF’s neurological surgery and orthopaedic surgery departments have earned the Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification in ...
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Scientists Create Cancer-Fighting Immune Cells Right in the Body

UCSF scientists found a precise way to turn on cancer-fighting immune cells inside the body. This more potent form of CAR-T ...
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This Multiview AI Imaging Can Improve Cardiac Diagnostic Accuracy

Heart disease is the leading cause of adult death worldwide, making cardiovascular disease diagnosis and management a global health priority. An echocardiogram, or cardiac ultrasound, is one of the ...
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UCSF Researcher Earns Top Honors at Orthopaedic Surgery Conference

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) has awarded the 2026 New Emerging eXperts in Translational Science (NEXT) Award to Kelsey H. Collins, PhD, for her research on the role that fat ...
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Inappropriate Antibiotic Use for COVID-19 Is Linked to Resistance

Azithromycin was used early in the pandemic to treat COVID-19 in patients and has continued to be used to fight respiratory ...
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Shape-Shifting Gel Helps Scientists 3D Print Organs That Grow in Lab

Scientists at UCSF invented a microscopic “womb” material for growing artificial organs (organoids) from scratch.
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Molecular Garbage on Tumors Makes Easy Target for Antibody Drugs

A UCSF team discovers that a notorious cancer-causing enzyme called SRC exists on the outside of many tumors - so they're ...
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UCSF Scientist Wins Pew Award in Marine and Biomedical Science

UCSF environmental epidemiologist and toxicologist Matthew Gribble, PhD, was named by The Pew Charitable Trusts as the 2026 ...
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NIH Funding Powers UCSF Research, with Nationwide Impact

UCSF received $824 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2025 to drive the discovery, translational, and clinical science that leads to new treatments for disease and advances U.S.
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First UCSF Health Patient to Move from Total Artificial Heart to Transplant

In a first, UCSF implanted a patient, who was in heart failure, with an artificial heart, who then he received a heart transplant months later. He has been discharged and is in good health.