Chancellor Highlights
Jennifer Arnett to Lead Fundraising at Mayo Clinic
By Kristen Bole on
As UCSF’s top development officer, Jennifer Arnett has led the University through the largest capital campaign in UCSF’s 157-year history.
UCSF School of Pharmacy Dean B. Joseph Guglielmo Announces Plan to Retire
By Nina Bai on
After more than four decades at UCSF, B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, who has led for nearly 10 years what is widely regarded as the best pharmacy school in the nation, has announced that he will retire December 31, 2021.
Living Therapeutics Initiative Will Accelerate Development and Delivery of Revolutionary Treatments
By Ariel Bleicher and Cyril Manning on
UCSF is launching a new initiative to propel the development of living therapeutics – a category of treatments broadly defined as human and microbial living cells that are selected, modified, or engineered to treat or cure disease – and bring them quickly to patients.
$12M Hellman Foundation Gift Endows, Expands Critical Research Support
By Ann Brody Guy on
The Hellman Foundation has given a $12 million endowment to support the Hellman Fellows Fund in perpetuity.
2021 Founders Day Awards Celebrate Commitment to Public, University Service
Fifteen faculty, staff and students were honored for their public service, excellence in nursing and exceptional service to UC San Francisco at this year’s UCSF Founders Day Awards event.
13th Annual Chancellor’s Diversity Forum Highlights Steps Toward Transformational Change
This year’s Chancellor’s Diversity Forum provided updates on a wide array of ongoing diversity and anti-racism efforts at UC San Francisco and a chance for the University community to ask questions.