The University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) is a public land-grant research university in San Francisco,California. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences.
John Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus and was co-winner of 1984 Alfred P. Sloan Prize. He serves as an active faculty member at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF),where he also served as chancellor from 1998 to 2009.
David Aaron Kessler is an American pediatrician,attorney,author,and administrator serving as Chief Science Officer of the White House COVID-19 Response Team since 2021. Kessler was the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from November 8,1990,to February 28,1997. He co-chaired the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021 and was the head of Operation Warp Speed,the U.S. government program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments,from January to February 2021.
Charles J. Hitch was an American economist and Assistant Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1965. He later served as vice chancellor (1965–1967) and president (1967–1975) of the University of California and president of Resources for the Future (1975-1978).
Haile Debas is an Eritrean physician and academic administrator at the University of California,San Francisco.
Sue Desmond-Hellmann is an American oncologist and biotechnology leader who served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014–2020. She was previously Chancellor of the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF),the first woman to hold the position,and Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor,and before that president of product development at Genentech,where she played a role in the development of the first gene-targeted cancer drugs,Avastin and Herceptin.
Daniel H. Lowenstein,M.D.,is the Robert B. and Ellinor Aird Professor of Neurology and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF). He is known internationally for his work in the field of epilepsy including laboratory-based and clinical research,the clinical care of patients with epilepsy,and advocacy for the needs of patients and family members living with epilepsy. He has had an active role in medical education and in efforts to advance social justice,has held many leadership positions at both UCSF and Harvard Medical School,was the originator of the “Academy of Medical Educators”concept,and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards both at UCSF and nationally. He has served as the Dean for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School,and as President of the American Epilepsy Society. In 2017,he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in recognition of his many contributions to American medicine.
Irwin Douglas "Tack" Kuntz is an important figure in the field of computer-aided drug design and molecular modeling. He is a pioneer in the development and conception of the area of study known as molecular docking. One of the first docking programs DOCK was developed in his group in 1982.
Regis Baker Kelly OBE is a neuroscientist and university administrator who develops academia-industry partnerships and supports early-stage entrepreneurship in the life sciences.
Shirley Sears Chater is an American nurse,educational administrator and government official. In the 1970s and 1980s,Chater held faculty appointments in nursing and education at the University of California,San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of California,Berkeley,respectively. She worked as an administrator at UCSF and then worked for two national education councils.
The UCSF School of Medicine is the medical school of the University of California,San Francisco and is located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco,California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland,it is the oldest medical school in California and in the western United States. U.S. News &World Report ranked the school third in research training and second in primary care training;it is the only medical school in the nation to rank among the top three in both categories. Six members of the UCSF faculty have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and five have received the National Medal of Science.
Jeffrey A. Bluestone is the A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Metabolism and Endocrinology at the University of California,San Francisco,and was,for a number of years,an earlier executive vice chancellor and provost of that university. He began the UCSF affiliation in 2000,after earlier extended positions at the NCI-NIH,and at The University of Chicago. Bluestone earned his undergraduate and masters degrees in microbiology from Rutgers State University,and his doctoral degree in immunology from Cornell Graduate School of Medical Science. His current research is focused on understanding T cell activation and immune tolerance in autoimmunity and organ transplantation. In April 2016,he co-founded and served as the president and CEO of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy,. In 2019,he co-founded and is Chief Executive Officer and President of Sonoma Biotherapeutics.
Philip Randolph Lee was an American physician who served as the United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1969 and President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1998.
Abul K. Abbas is an American pathologist at University of California San Francisco where he is Distinguished Professor in Pathology and former chair of its Department of Pathology. He is senior editor of the pathology reference book Robbins and Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease along with Vinay Kumar,as well as Basic Immunology,and Cellular &Molecular Immunology. He was editor for Immunity from 1993 to 1996,and continues to serve as a member of the editorial board. He was one of the inaugural co-editors of the Annual Review of Pathology:Mechanisms of Disease for issues from 2006 to 2020. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers.
John C. Greene was an American dentist and public health administrator. He was a rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps,and served as the Deputy Surgeon General of the United States under President Carter from 1978 to 1981. He was the Acting Surgeon General from January to May 1981 under Ronald Reagan. He was the highest ranking non-physician public health officer in the history of the U.S. government.
Maharaja Bir Bikram University is a state university located at Agartala,Tripura,India. It is the first,and as of 2023,the only state university in the state of Tripura. The university is named after Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman,the last ruling maharaja of the princely state of Tripura.
Dorothy Ford Bainton is a Professor Emeritus in the department of pathology,and was the first woman to chair a department at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She retired from UCSF in 2004. Her research focused on the development of leukemia.
A. Eugene Washington is an American clinical investigator who is the Chancellor for Health Affairs and the President and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System. His research considers gynaecology,health disparities and public health policy. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1997.
Sam Guobadia is a Nigerian professor of economics and educational administrator. He is the sixth substantive Vice Chancellor of Benson Idahosa University.
