Funded by various agencies across UCSF, the awards span a range of topics from novel imaging techniques to cancer-related fatigue to therapeutic resistance in pancreatic cancer. [read more]

Led by Nadav Ahituv, PhD, a team of UCSF scientists are using genetically engineered fat cells to starve tumors of essential nutrients.

Following a change in screening guidelines, the incidence of advanced prostate cancer went up across the state, according to a new study led by Erin Van Blarigan, ScD.

Stephanie Cham, MD - Associate Member, Cancer Control

Zenghua Fan, PhD - Associate Member, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy

Jerry Lee, MD, MSc, MPhil - Member, Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy

Maria T. Chao, DrPH, MPA was appointed Director of Research for the UCSF Osher Center. Learn more.

Ajay Maker, MD was named the American College of Surgeons Traveling Scholar to Japan for 2025.

Sam Brondfield, MD was named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Rita Mukhtar, MD received a METAvivor Award for a project, “The PLUMB Study: a Prospective study of LobUlar Metastatic Breast cancer using serial circulating tumor DNA to measure disease response."

Davide Ruggero, PhD received a METAvivor Award for a project, “Looking through a new lens: posttranscriptional regulation in metastatic breast cancer."

Congratulations to the recent recipients of 2025 Catalyst Awards!

Kovalski JR, Sarioglu G, Subramanyam V, Hernandez G, Rademaker G, Oses-Prieto JA, Slota M, Mohan N, Yiakis K, Liu I, Wen KW, Kim GE, Miglani S, Burlingame AL, Goodarzi H, Perera RM, Ruggero D. Functional screen identifies RBM42 as a mediator of oncogenic mRNA translation specificity. Nat Cell Biol. 2025 Feb 4.

Morshed RA, Alexander AY, Nizzola M, Bauman MM, Amini M, Pollock BE, Carlson ML, Driscoll CL, Brown PD, Link MJ. Rates and Predictors of Follow-Up Loss after Radiosurgery for Sporadic Vestibular Schwannomas. J Neurol Surg B Skull Base. 2025 Feb;86(S 01):S1-S576.

Costa LJ, Banerjee R, Mian H, Weisel K, Bal S, Derman BA, Htut MM, Nagarajan C, Rodriguez C, Richter J, Frigault MJ, Ye JC, van de Donk NWCJ, Voorhees PM, Puliafito B, Bahlis N, Popat R, Chng WJ, Ho PJ, Kaur G, Kapoor P, Du J, Schjesvold F, Berdeja J, Einsele H, Cohen AD, Mikhael J, Biru Y, Rajkumar SV, Lin Y, Martin TG, Chari A. International myeloma working group immunotherapy committee recommendation on sequencing immunotherapy for treatment of multiple myeloma. Leukemia. 2025 Jan 27.