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Research
UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Children's Hospital
are among the world's leading research institutions in biomedical
and health science. As part of the University of California,
San Francisco, we have more than 1,300 "principal"
researchers and 3,000 ongoing research projects. Three UCSF
faculty have won Nobel prizes for work leading to new ways
to detect and treat cancer and for the discovery of prions,
a new infectious agent implicated in brain diseases such
as "mad cow" disease.
Clinical Trials
Our patients have the opportunity
to participate in clinical trials, which are studies to
test the safety and effectiveness of medications and treatments.
Clinical trials make new drugs, therapies and surgical procedures
available to patients before they're widely available to
the general public.
For information about clinical trials that involve
UCSF Children's Hospital, see our clinical
trials directory of information gathered from ClinicalTrials.gov, a database
of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Information about clinical trials also is
available on the School
of Medicine Web site.
More information for parents of patients who may be eligible to participate in a clinical
trial is provided by UCSF's
Office of Research.
More Information
Here's more information about our research.
Cancer
Neurological Disorders
Organ Transplants
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