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Undergraduate Colleges /
University of California, San Francisco |
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Distinctions |
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- Researchers at UCSF developed gene-splicing techniques that have revolutionized biology, spawned the biotechnology industry
and led to life-saving treatments.
- Over 25,000 doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and scientists have graduated from UCSF.
- UCSF handles more than 1 million patient visits a year through its medical centers at Parnassus and Mount Zion as well as its
affiliated hospitals, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
- UCSF has spawned over 60 biotech and life sciences company and contributes some $1.2 billion annually to the Bay Area economy.
- UCSF researchers discovered, in cooperation with Stanford, the techniques of recombinant DNA.
- With a work force of 18,600 people, UCSF is San Francisco's second largest employer.
Noted faculty
- J. Michael Bishop - Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989), worked
to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
- Stanley Prusiner - Nobel laureate in Medicine (1997),
discovered and described prions
- Harold Varmus - Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989), worked to discover
the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes
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| 40 years ago, women used to score 50 points lower on the Math portion of the SAT than on the Verbal. Today, their Math and Verbal scores are nearly identical on average. |
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