UCSF AI News

  • Is Your Brain Aging Faster Than You Are? Sleep May Hold the Key

    By Suzanne Leigh on

    Poor sleep is associated with an increased risk for dementia, but many sleep studies have had inconsistent results. For the first time, used AI to analyze tiny electrical signals in the brain of 7,000 participants healthy participants to calculate “brain age." They find that dementia risk increases significantly when the brain age exceeds actual age.

  • NIH Funding Powers UCSF Research, with Nationwide Impact

    By Levi Gadye on

    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. leadership in health and science.

  • As Health Care Goes Digital, Patients Are Being Left Behind

    By Victoria Colliver on

    An NIH-funded survey by UCSF researchers found that despite the fact that digital health will continue to be core in health delivery, less than half of surveyed health systems are checking for barriers to using patient portals, telemedicine, and other digital health tools.

  • AI Bots Accurately Analyze Big Data Set to Predict Preterm Birth

    By Levi Gadye on

    A team of UCSF researchers successfully tested several mainstream AI agents for the ability to analyze big data on women's reproductive health, with the goal of predicting pre-term births.

  • For Global Health Care Providers, the Stakes Have Never Been Higher

    By Talya Sanders on

    A Q&A with the executive director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, Payam Nahid, that checks in on the state of global health in the wake of USAID and other cuts.

  • Five Questions for Kole Roybal

    By Ashley Han on

    At the new Weill Cancer Hub West, Kole Roybal, PhD, is reimagining how immune cells fight solid tumors.

  • Is AI the Cure for Health Care’s Biggest Challenges?

    By Brandy Ford on

    UCSF’s Robert Wachter, MD, a leading voice on the impact of technology on medicine, explores what generative Al can — and can't yet — do for patient care.

  • Psychiatrists Hope Chat Logs Can Reveal the Secrets of AI Psychosis

    By Laura López González on

    UCSF psychiatrists may have documented what is likely the first case of AI psychosis in a peer-reviewed journal. He tells us what to know as media reports about cases mount.

  • A New Way to Diagnose Deadly Lung Infections and Save Lives

    By Robin Marks on

    UCSF researchers have discovered a way to identify deadly lung infections with improved accuracy by pairing AI with a unique genetic signal. This could revolutionize ICU care and prevent thousands of patients from receiving unnecessary antibiotics.

  • Wearable Tech Can Help Heart Surgery Patients Stick with Rehab

    By Lorna Fernandes on

    Nurse scientist Linda Park, PhD, uses NIH funding to study cardiac rehab and digital tools—like pedometers and apps—to motivate post-surgery patients and prevent health decline.