UCSF was founded as Toland Medical College in 1864. In 1873, it became affiliated with the University of California as its Medical Department. In the same year, it incorporated the California College of Pharmacy and in 1881 it established a dentistry school. Its facilities were located in both Berkeley and San Francisco.[12] In 1964, the school gained full administrative independence as a campus of the UC system, headed by its own chancellor, and in 1970 it gained its current name. Historically based at Parnassus Heights with satellite facilities throughout the city, UCSF developed a second major campus in the newly redeveloped Mission Bay district in the early 2000s.
In 2023, UCSF received the 2nd highest research funding from the National Institutes of Health.[13] In 2021, the university spent $1.71 billion in research and development, the second most among institutions of higher education in the U.S.[14][15] With 25,398 employees, UCSF is the second-largest public agency employer in the San Francisco Bay Area.[16] UCSF faculty have treated patients and trained residents since 1873 at the San Francisco General Hospital and for over 50 years at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
2 winners
Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
4 winners
National Medal of Science
6 winners
Shaw Prize
10 winners
Lasker Award
The discovery of and the conversion of normal cellular genes can be converted to cancer genes (Nobel Prize in Medicine, J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus, 1989)[88]
oncogenes
The techniques of , the seminal step in the creation of the biotechnology industry, together with Stanford
recombinant DNA
The precise recombinant DNA techniques that led to the creation of a
First to clone an insulin gene into bacteria, leading to the mass production of recombinant human insulin to treat diabetes
[89]
First to synthesize and clone into bacteria, setting the stage for genetically engineered human growth hormone
human growth hormone
First to develop prenatal tests for and thalassemia
sickle cell anemia
Discovery of , a unique type of infectious agent responsible for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases (Nobel Prize in Medicine, Stanley B. Prusiner, 1997)
prions
Development of catheter ablation therapy for
tachycardia
Discovery of the molecular nature of
telomeres
Discovery that missing are responsible for the death of newborns with respiratory distress syndrome; first to develop a synthetic substitute for it, reducing infant death rates significantly
The Gladstone Institutes, a partner research institute on the Mission Bay campus
pulmonary surfactants
The first care units for AIDS patients and pioneer work in treatment of AIDS
First to train pharmacists as drug therapy specialists[91]
[90]
First university west of the Mississippi to offer a doctoral degree in nursing
First to develop an academic hospitalist program (and coined the term "hospitalist") ()
Robert M. Wachter
First high volume HIV counseling and testing program at the
UCSF Alliance Health Project
On June 5, 2015, surgeons at UCSF and successfully completed 18 surgeries in the nation's first nine-way, two-day kidney transplant chain in a single city.[92][93][94]
California Pacific Medical Center
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UCSF is among the world's leading institutions in biological and medical research. Its departments span all fields of biomedical science, from basic to translational sciences. In fiscal year 2021, it spent $1.71 billion in research and development, the second most among institutions of higher education in the U.S.[14][15] In fiscal year 2020, UCSF received $680 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, which is the 2nd highest of all US domestic higher education universities.[87]
Milestones include:
John Bertrand deCusance Morant Saunders (1964–1966)
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