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UCSF Radiology is a leading health sciences center focused on serving patients, conducting research,

The Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco, is a leading health sciences center focused on serving patients, conducting research, and training the next generation of radiologists. We are proud to have some of the foremost names in diagnostic, therapeutic, and interventional radiology developing promising new approaches to identify and treat disease. We are a patient-centered team, and are proud that the community recognizes us for our compassion and care.

10/01/2026

Turning MRI into a tool for finding and staging breast cancer took years of work, and Dr. Nola Hylton, was at the center of it, improving care for women around the world.

She directs UCSF's Breast Imaging Research Group and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2024, one of the highest honors in the field, which chooses no more than 100 members a year.

Close out with her story: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/nola-hylton-phd-elected-national-academy-medicine

09/30/2026

For many bone injuries, the standard has been two scans. One UCSF Imaging team is working to make it one.

Dr. Alexandra Gersing and her collaborators are developing CT-like MRI, which uses special MRI sequences and deep learning to detect bone fractures without radiation and without a separate CT. Added to an MRI a patient is already having, it can spare young athletes, bone tumor patients, and people with metal implants both radiation and cost.

Learn more about Dr. Gersing's work during Women in Medicine Month: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/department-publications/when-can-mri-replace-ct-musculoskeletal-imaging

09/25/2026

A device that travels the brain's blood vessels.

A gene you can switch and watch reverse on a scan.

A probe that makes a hidden infection visible.

These are not science fiction. They are the work of three UCSF Imaging postdocs we are proud to celebrate this Postdoc Appreciation Week: Panos Pardalidis, Tamara Vasilkovska, and Sanghee Lee.

Read their stories: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/meet-postdocs-turning-images-answers-part-2

09/25/2026

Meet four postdoctoral researchers whose work is helping us see and treat disease more clearly.

Danny Gebrezgiabhier helped redesign MRI hardware that caught prostate cancers a standard scan had missed. Pouya Metanat keeps a national breast cancer study's images reliable so treatment fits each patient. Jennifer Senta uses MEG to spot the brain's earliest warning signs of Alzheimer's. Tugce Ulas studies the muscle most radiologists overlook, and what it reveals about joint disease.

Read their stories this : https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/meet-postdocs-turning-images-answers-part-1

09/24/2026

This Women in Medicine Month, we want you to hear from one of the women leading radiology.

Dr. Christine Glastonbury delivered this year's ARRS president's address. In it she makes the case for embracing change in the field, from the profession's move to PACS years ago to the arrival of AI, and argues that AI makes a radiologist's judgement more important, not less.

It's a clear, confident look at where radiology is headed from a leader worth listening to. Watch her full speech here:

In the Presidential Address from the ARRS 2026 Opening Ceremonies, ...

09/17/2026

We're proud to share Minhao Zhou has received a 2026 ASBMR Young Investigator Award for his research using time-lapse HR-pQCT imaging to track how cortical bone changes in older men, revealing rapid loss alongside new bone forming in localized spots. Congratulations!

09/15/2026

Many of Dr. Brittany Harrison's patients arrive having spent years searching for answers to pain no one could explain. As an interventional radiologist in women's health, she treats the conditions behind it, like fibroids, adenomyosis, and pelvic venous disease, and she starts every visit by listening.

"I approach these visits with patience, giving the patient the benefit of the doubt, and frankly with humility, because we still have a lot to learn," she says.

Read her story: https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/brittany-harrison-md-reflects-her-path-interventional-radiology

09/08/2026

A day at an amusement park turned into something far more serious for Zachary Davis. When a roller coaster snapped his neck, imaging revealed the real cause of his pain was a chordoma, a rare bone cancer pressing on his spinal cord.

Removing it took a team working together. Spine neurosurgeon Dr. Jang Won Yoon planned to reach the tumor from the front of the spine, but a major artery sat right at its edge. UCSF Imaging's Dr. Kazim Narsinh used an angiogram to confirm the vessel could be safely sacrificed, and head and neck surgeon Dr. Ilya Likhterov helped navigate the delicate anatomy of the throat. The tumor was removed in one piece, with no visible disease left behind.

Zachary is now completing proton therapy close to home. We are grateful to have played a part in his care. https://radiology.ucsf.edu/news/multidisciplinary-expert-team-makes-difference-rare-cervical-chordoma

08/19/2026

Losing and regaining the same weight over and over may cost you more than you think. UCSF researchers found that people whose weight repeatedly fluctuated lost nearly four times as much thigh muscle over four years as those whose weight stayed steady, and they did not build it back, even though both groups ended up near their starting weight.

Led by Dr. Thomas Link with Drs. Adrian Marth and Gabby Joseph, the study points to something worth watching as weight-loss medications grow more common. Protecting muscle may matter just as much as shedding fat. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/07/432226/its-not-just-fat-yo-yo-diet-means-losing-healthy-muscle-too

08/06/2026

Some of the sharpest minds working on Alzheimer's just earned a major vote of confidence. Team ATLAS, led by UCSF Imaging's Dr. Duygu Tosun-Turgut with Oliver Robinson of Imperial College London, has been chosen for the Dementia Frontiers Fund, one of only five teams selected worldwide from an initial group of 12 finalists.

The team wants to give doctors a clearer read on how the disease will progress. Alzheimer's shows up in the brain through two kinds of damage, amyloid and tau, and they appear at different times. Team ATLAS wants to measure the gap between them and use it to predict how the disease will unfold for each patient.

Congratulations to the whole team, whose members come from the US, UK, and Spain.

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