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UCSF scientists receive $8 million in CIRM grants toward stem cell and gene therapies

Meet the Team

As part of our Meet the Team series, we introduce you to one of our fantastic community members. Meet Simone Kurial, a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, working with Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD to better understand and translate mechanisms of hepatocyte transdifferentiation...

Can a Leading Laboratory Unlock the Cause of Gastrointestinal Disease?

This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights.

Why Stem Cell Therapy Might Not Work for Older Patients

This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights.

Can Lab-Grown Beta Cells Revolutionize Diabetes Care?

This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights.

How Much Can We Control Our Own Fertility?

Animation: Farah Hamade Nearly one in five American women experience infertility, meaning they’re unable to become pregnant after at least a year of trying to conceive, or six months if they’re age 35 or older.

Researchers Receive High Honors for Outstanding Science Contributions

Three UC San Francisco researchers have been named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is the world’s largest general scientific society and publishes the influential Science family of journals. Election to AAAS is one of the highest honors in...

Meet the Team

Semil Choksi, PhD, a scientist in Jeremy Reiter’s Lab at the CVRI, took this image, “Cilia in space,” as part of our October microscopy contest.

Science Diversity Leadership Awards

Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD, received a Science Diversity Leadership Award from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Her project, “Evolution of Neural Stem Cells in the Human Hippocampal Neurogenic Niche in Development and Disease,”...

Fetal Therapy Offers Hope for Patients with Rare Genetic Disorders

Toddler Thrives with Same Disease That Ended Siblings’ Lives When Zahid and Sobia Bashir discovered their fetus had the same genetic disease that took the lives of two of their young children, they didn’t hesitate to sign up for a promising but experimental new therapy.