UCSF AI News

  • Why Does Female Fertility Decline So Fast? The Key Is the Ovary

    By Sarah C.P. Williams on

    New research shows that the surrounding cells and tissues of the ovary play a crucial role in how eggs mature and how quickly fertility wanes.

  • If Anti-Seizure Meds Don’t Work for Epilepsy, Can Surgery Help?

    By Suzanne Leigh on

    Vikram Rao, director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, discusses why a third of seizure patients don’t respond to medication and the promising new surgical and technological treatments available.

  • The Future is Robotic Surgery. These Students Get a Front-Row Seat

    By Laura López González on

    UCSF offers unique opportunities for medical students to gain certification to assist in robotic surgery as part of extensive robotic surgery curriculum.

  • How UCSF Is Helping African Infectious Disease Researchers Take the Lead 

    By Victoria Colliver on

    UC San Francisco’s Paul Farmer African Initiative for Research (PFAIR) supports African scientists in infectious disease research via mentorship, international collaboration, and sustainable funding.

  • Why This Video Producer Says ‘Teamwork Makes the Dream Work’

    By Eric Brooks on

    This is part of our UCSF People series, highlighting employees from across UCSF with diverse roles and backgrounds through a day in their work life. Here we meet Isaac Conway-Stenzel, an ETS senior video producer/director.

  • Gift Launches $200M Initiative for the Weill Cancer Hub West

    By Kristen Bole on

    A $100 million matching grant from the Weill Family Foundation is bringing together two leading cancer centers to launch the Weill Cancer Hub West — an innovative collaboration among some of the nation’s most talented scientists that aims to transform cancer research and care in the next decade.

  • This is How AI Can Help Us Make New Medicines Faster

    By Laura López González on

    UCSF researchers recently created the world's first shape-shifting synthetic proteins using artificial intelligence (AI). The breakthrough opens the door to developing entirely new proteins that could, one day, produce medicines to stop diseases like cancer.

  • UCSF Bioinformatics Pioneer Atul Butte Dies at 55

    By Laura Kurtzman on

    Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and clinical bioinformatics — died on June 13 at the age of 55.

  • Five Questions for Joanne Chun

    By Kira Goldenberg on

    The School of Pharmacy’s Joanne Chun, PharmD ’93, PhD ’96, leads a new master’s degree program focused on AI’s transformation of drug discovery and development.

  • Your Fitness Tracker Could Help Doctors Spot Health Risks Early

    By Laura López González on

    Health trackers keep tabs on nearly 1 in 4 Americans at this point. Professor of Medicine Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, MSc, answers questions about the future of these ubiquitous gadgets and the data they collect, share, and analyze.