• 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