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2016 Media Coverage

Immunizing Against Stress

Wed Oct 26, 2016

AACP: Academic Pharmacy Now

IBM, The NSF And UC San Francisco Combine To Power Up The Exciting World Of Cellular Engineering

Mon Sep 26, 2016

College students take to Wikipedia to rewrite the wrongs of Internet science

Tue Sep 20, 2016

Los Angeles Times

Two Californian research teams are on the path to ending the opioid crisis

Tue Sep 13, 2016

Business Insider

Designer Agent Blocks Pain in Mice Without Morphine’s Side Effects

Wed Aug 17, 2016

National Institute of Mental Health

Scientists design a drug that relieves pain like an opioid without some dangerous side effects

Wed Aug 17, 2016

Los Angeles Times

Genetic Insights About Health Risks Limited By Lack Of Diversity, Study Finds

Wed Aug 17, 2016

Kaiser Health News

A Big Step Forward in the Quest for a Better Painkiller

Wed Aug 17, 2016

MIT Technology Review

Agent kills pain like morphine but loses some side effects

Wed Aug 17, 2016

C&EN: Chemical & Engineering News

Gene variant explains differences in diabetes drug response

Tue Aug 16, 2016

Helen Macfie, PharmD, Named Among Nation’s 50 Top Patient Safety Experts

Wed Jul 6, 2016

MemorialCare Health System

The scope of I.V. room errors

Fri Jun 24, 2016

Three Ways to Build an Artificial Kidney

Fri Jun 24, 2016

Revolution Medicines Names Michael Fischbach as Academic Co-Founder

Tue Jun 14, 2016

Revolution Medicines

Why Are Health Studies So White?

Thu Jun 16, 2016

Blacks Die From Asthma at Steep Rates, But Are Absent From Many Studies

Mon Jun 6, 2016

Tales of African-American History Found in DNA

Fri May 27, 2016

The New York Times

It’s Still Hard To Get Birth Control Pills In California Without A Prescription

Thu May 26, 2016

UCSF researcher receives prestigious gold medal

Wed May 18, 2016

Did you know you don’t need a prescription to get birth control pills?

Fri May 20, 2016

Law Allows Women to Obtain Birth Control Without Prescription, But Few Pharmacies Offer Service

Thu May 19, 2016

Podcast: Comparison Shopping For Health Care?

Wed Apr 6, 2016

Prices And Health Care Quality: Many Consumers Don’t See A Link

Fri Apr 8, 2016

Kaiser Health News

UC San Francisco limb growth study looks at bats

Sat May 7, 2016

The Mercury News

UCSF Study: Smokers Quit and Health Care Costs Drop — in Next Year

Wed May 11, 2016

If 1 in 10 U.S. Smokers Quits, $63 Billion Saved

Tue May 10, 2016

U.S. News & World Report

#ScienceSoWhite Threatens The Health Of People Of Color, Researchers Say

Wed May 11, 2016

BuzzFeed Science

Chemical cocktail induces fibroblasts to become heart cells

Mon May 2, 2016

C&EN: Chemical & Engineering News

Fentanyl Overdoses in Bay Area Linked to Counterfeit Painkiller

Tue Apr 26, 2016

Big stem cell news: dynamic duo of all-chemical direct reprogramming reports

Thu Apr 28, 2016

The Niche: Knoepfler Lab stem cell blog

Robots Are Now Handling Pills. Will Pharmacists Be Liberated or Out of Work?

Thu Apr 28, 2016

On being quoted in the NYT, Preprints, and Beer (and Tacos)

Wed Mar 16, 2016

News from the Fraser Lab

Scientists find new way to inhibit growth of tuberculosis-causing bacterium

Wed Apr 6, 2016

News-Medical.net

Many Americans say higher prices don’t mean better healthcare

Wed Apr 6, 2016

Evolving Education

Wed Mar 2, 2016

AACP: Academic Pharmacy Now

Crean un riñón bio artificial [Create a bioartificial kidney]

Thu Mar 31, 2016

Five deaths in Sacramento County related to street drug painkillers

Mon Mar 28, 2016

The Sacramento Bee

Scientists investigate the weird genetics of bat wings

Mon Mar 28, 2016

The Washington Post

Raising the Smoking Age

Fri Mar 18, 2016

Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet

Tue Mar 15, 2016

The New York Times

Berkeley-Haas EW-MBA NSF iCorps Success Story

Thu Mar 3, 2016

Scalable Startups

Artificial kidney could free thousands from dialysis

Fri Mar 4, 2016

Michelle Arkin: All Things are One Thing

Mon Feb 29, 2016

For many women, HIV is a byproduct of a lifetime of trauma

Sat Feb 27, 2016

San Francisco Chronicle

UCSF Lab Working To Make Smarter Device To Help People With Diabetes

Thu Feb 25, 2016

Joe Biden, wife hold cancer roundtable at UCSF

Sat Feb 27, 2016

Pliant Therapeutics, Third Rock’s New $45M Startup, Looks to Stop Lung Scarring

Thu Feb 18, 2016

UCSF and Others Strive to Create True Health Care Teams

Fri Jan 1, 2016

Science of Caring

Implantable artificial kidney based on microchips sees major progress

Wed Feb 17, 2016

Medical News Today

How Light Microscopy Forever Changed Scientific Imaging

Tue Feb 16, 2016

Laboratory Equipment

Designed protein shelters reactive organic radical

Mon Feb 22, 2016

C&EN: Chemical & Engineering News

OTC Smoking Cessation Products Can Be Equally Effective as Rx Methods

Thu Feb 18, 2016

High Costs For Drugs Used By A Few Are Starting To Add Up

Fri Feb 5, 2016

New Startup Marketplace Matches MBA Students & UCSF Scientists

Wed Feb 3, 2016

Haas Now: News from the Haas School

Oral contraceptive exposure in newly pregnant women not linked to birth defects

Tue Feb 2, 2016

The Forest In Your Mouth

Mon Jan 25, 2016

National Geographic

Converting skin cells to pancreatic cells may help protect against diabetes

Mon Jan 11, 2016

Diabetes: Conversion of skin cells to produce insulin could lead to new treatments

Wed Jan 6, 2016

The Independent (UK)

Stem cell shortcut points S.F. scientists to potential therapy for diabetes

Wed Jan 6, 2016

San Francisco Business Times

UGA research links inorganic mercury exposure to damaged cell processes

Tue Dec 22, 2015

ClinicalNews.org

Engaging with enzymes: Reflections on Ortiz de Montellano’s passion for heme and renewal

Wed Dec 30, 2015

Lack Of Diversity In Clinical Trials Presents Possible Health Consequences

Thu Dec 17, 2015