University of California, San Francisco
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), located in San Francisco, California, is one of 10 University of California campuses. It is the only one dedicated to graduate education in health and biomedical sciences. UCSF is known for innovation in medical research, life-saving patient care at its UCSF Medical Center and public service.Over the years it has grown in prominence along with other major medical research universities such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Duke, and Washington University as a training ground for medical researchers in offering a PhD in a biomedical subject as well as a medical doctorate.
UCSF is unique in that it does research almost completely within medical disciplines. Overall, the campus is fourth in the nation in annual NSF-NIH funding with $420.7 million (2003). Its schools of Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy all are No. 1 in NIH funding among their peers, with $28 million, $13.4 million and $19.8 million, respectively. Its School of Medicine is fourth with $350.8 million.
Other distinctions include:
- Researchers at UCSF developed gene-splicing techniques that have revolutionized biology, spawned the biotechnology industry and led to life-saving treatments.
- Some 25,000 doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and scientists have graduated from UCSF, whose schools are ranked among the top in the nation.
- UCSF -- including its medical centers at Parnassus and Mount Zion and its affiliated hospitals San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center -- handle more than 1 million patient visits a year.
- With a work force of 18,600 people, UCSF is San Francisco's second largest employer.
- In 2003, UCSF opened its 43 acre Mission Bay campus south of downtown San Francisco. UCSF Mission Bay, the largest biomedical university expansion in the country, will double UCSF's research space and speed the pace of biomedical discovery.
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