Categories: Research

Synthetic biomaterial guides cancer therapy to hidden tumors

Advance opens up new possibilities for CAR T-cell therapy to treat a variety of cancers

How we know it’s safe to get the vaccine

UCSF experts address the safety of the new COVID-19 vaccines

Jamming the gears of a deadly virus

Team efforts at the School and beyond produce two potential treatments for COVID-19.

Resistant bacteria meet their match with custom antibiotics

“Molecular building blocks” give antibiotics an edge over drug-resistant bacteria.

QBI probes three lethal coronaviruses to find possible drug targets

“This is looking across coronaviruses and finding the commonalities so we’re in a better position to attack SARS3 when it comes,” said Nevan Krogan, the director of QBI.

Study details how California pharmacies could expand naloxone access

“Naloxone saves lives,” says Andy Nguyen. But to work it must be given on a moment's notice.

Shipman receives NIH Director’s New Innovator Award

Award funds research into tools for repairing mutations in mitochondrial DNA

Bioartificial kidney aims to mimic natural kidney function with $1 million grant from the John and Marcia Goldman Foundation

“People struggling with dialysis need and deserve better choices,” said the founders of the foundation.

Danica Fujimori Receives Bowes Biomedical Investigator Award

Danica Galonić Fujimori, PhD, will receive $1.25 million in funding over the next five years from the endowment of the late William K. Bowes, Jr., a venture capitalist and longtime UCSF supporter.

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