News & Highlights

Two new faculty members join Urology this summer. Sima Porten, MD, MPH will join Oncology as Assistant Professor and Anne Suskind, MD, MS, also Assistant Professor, will join Female Urology.

On July 22nd 2014 Matthew R. Cooperberg, MD, MPHwill speak about Early Prostate Cancer for The UCSF Osher Mini Medical School in the last part of the course The Ins and Outs of Genitourinary Cancer.

Two newly appointed UCSF Urology Chief Residents, Drs. Lindsay Hampson and Anobel Odisho, were recognized by UCSF’s Graduate Medical Eduation (GME) office, receiving this year’s Excellence and Innovation in GME award.

UCSF Pediatric Urology was recently rated tops in California according to U.S. News & World Report best children's hospitals survey...

As an expert in capital markets, Carl Kawaja knows a good investment when he sees one...

The first ancillary study approved by the ambitious Health eHeart Study was born here at UCSF’s Department of Urology...

Urology’s Cindy Mak, RN, wins the prestigious Excellence in Ambulatory Nursing Award for 2014...

Drew Armstrong of Bloomerg covered results from recent study looking at men whose prostate cancer relapsed and delayed hormone theraphy treatment. The researchers used a 14,000-patient database from

UCSF researchers make an important scientific breakthrough that connects two fundamental cellular processes, protein synthesis and metabolism, important for fueling cancer cell growth. Remarkably, the targeted inhibition of this specific connection caused cancer cells but not normal cells to die, therefore identifying an attractive new approach to cancer therapy.

Study offers new data on hormone therapy timing strategies when prostate cancer relapse is detected by rising PSA levels alone.