UCSF AI News

  • 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.

  • New and Easier Way to Monitor Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Kids

    By Jess Berthold on

    This spring, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Walnut Creek Outpatient Cetner will become one of the only children's hospital on the West Coast to have an intestinal ultrasound (IUS) machine for children with IBD, making for a much better patient experience.

  • How a Paralyzed Man Moved a Robotic Arm with His Thoughts

    By Robin Marks on

    A paralyzed man was able to move a robotic arm and fingers simply by imagining himself doing so, with the help of brain signals decoded through a computer.

  • How Artificial Intelligence is Fostering Human Connection in Health Care

    By Laura López González on

    AI has come to doctors’ office near you. With patients’ consent, physicians and patients across the country are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to note-take during visits to foster better discussions during visits, and help save time afterwards.

  • On the Origin of Diseases

    By Ariel Bleicher on

    Insights from human evolution could change how we understand and treat illness.

  • The Future of Neuroscience: Building a Silicon Brain

    By Shailee Jain on

    A digital twin of a human mind? It isn’t science fiction.

  • Can AI Improve Diagnosis of Rare Diseases?

    By Melinda Krigel on

    Researchers at UCSF and UCLA created an AI algorithm to analyze health records, identify patterns and flag potential AHP patients, aiming to enhance diagnosis of rare diseases.

  • 4 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Poised to Transform Medicine

    By Laura López González on

    Artificial intelligence has revolutionized medical imaging. Here are four ways that AI is changing medicine in pictures - and the UCSF minds behind them.

  • Chancellor Celebrates UCSF’s ‘Momentum’ in 2024 State of the University Address

    By Eric Brooks on

    Defined as the product of mass and velocity, “momentum” is derived from physics. It also describes UC San Francisco’s journey in the past decade under Chancellor Sam Hawgood’s leadership. “When I delivered my first State of the University address in 2014 , I made the case that we were at an inflection point in our history that required thoughtful adaption to future forces reshaping our environment,” Hawgood , MBBS, said in his annual address. “Now, 10 years later, I am even more excited to be your chancellor. I believe the premise of my 2014 address has been borne out.” This year’s address