The University of California's graduate health sciences campus, where stem cell reprogramming, MS therapy, and the modern hospitalist movement all took root.
14 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
Chancellor; Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor
Office of the Chancellor
Thank you for steady leadership of UCSF through pandemic and growth alike, a neonatologist's care applied to an entire university of health.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Thank you for leading UCSF's schools and research enterprise as provost, and for a career devoted to making medical education worthy of patients' trust.
Professor, Anatomy
Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine
Thank you for the four factors that turn adult cells back into stem cells; regenerative medicine has a founding experiment because of you.
Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Neurology; Director, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Thank you for refusing to accept that MS was a hopeless T-cell disease; your B-cell insight became therapy that changed millions of lives.
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics; Gordon M. Tomkins Chair
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine
Thank you for genomic detective work, from virus chips to metagenomic diagnosis of mysterious infections, and for building tools in the open so others can catch what you catch.
Professor, Medicine; Director, UCSF Center for AIDS Research
Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine, School of Medicine
Thank you for HIV care at Ward 86 that treats patients as people first, and for clear, humane public health communication when it was hardest to give.
Professor, Medicine; Chief, HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
Thank you for HIV treatment science and the getting-to-zero ambition for San Francisco, carried from the bedside at Ward 86 to global policy.
A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor in Neurology; Director, UCSF Memory and Aging Center
Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
Thank you for the Memory and Aging Center and for teaching medicine that dementia has many faces, each deserving precise diagnosis and dignity.
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine; Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine
Thank you for naming the hospitalist field and for chronicling the digital transformation of medicine with honesty about both its promise and its peril.
Byers Distinguished Professor; Professor, Cellular Molecular Pharmacology
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, School of Medicine
Thank you for engineering cells as computers, with synthetic receptors that are making cell therapies smarter, safer, and more precise.
Dean, School of Pharmacy; Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
School of Pharmacy
Thank you for the pharmacogenomics of drug transporters, science that explains why medicines act differently in different people, and for leading the School of Pharmacy toward precision therapeutics.
Professor, Psychiatry; Sarlo-Ekman Endowed Chair in the Study of Human Emotion
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine
Thank you for showing how chronic stress reaches our telomeres and our health, and for translating that science into ways people can actually live.
Professor Emerita and Recall Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics; Morris Herzstein Endowed Chair of Biology and Physiology
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine
Thank you for discovering telomerase with your student Carol Greider, and for a lifetime spent asking what protects the ends of our chromosomes and what that means for how we age.
Professor Emeritus, Surgery
Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
Thank you for founding UCSF Global Health Sciences and for your years of service as chair, dean, and chancellor, a surgeon who kept widening the circle of who health science serves.
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