84 Notable alumni of
University of California - San Francisco
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The University of California - San Francisco is 771st in the world, 285th in North America, and 264th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 84 notable alumni from the University of California - San Francisco sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 5 individuals affiliated with the University of California - San Francisco won Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
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Priscilla Chan
- Occupations
- pediatrician
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Priscilla Chan is an American pediatrician and a philanthropist. She and her husband, Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder and CEO of Meta Platforms, established the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in December 2015 with a pledge to transfer 99 percent of their Facebook shares, then valued at $45 billion. She attended Harvard University and received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco.
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Tess Gerritsen
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- physiciantelevision writeressayistnovelistwriter
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Tess Gerritsen is the pseudonym of Terry Gerritsen, an American novelist and retired general physician.
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Shinya Yamanaka
- Occupations
- physiciangeneticistbiologistphysicistprofessor
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Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a professor of anatomy at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Yamanaka is also a past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).
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Alexander Shulgin
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- biochemistpharmacistpharmacologistwriterchemist
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Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin was an American biochemist, broad researcher of synthetic psychoactive compounds, and author of works regarding these, who independently explored the organic chemistry and pharmacology of such agents—in his mid-life and later, many through preparation in his home laboratory, and testing on himself. He is acknowledged to have introduced to broader use, in the late 1970s, the prior synthesized compound MDMA ("ecstasy"), in research psychopharmacology and in combination with conventional therapy, the latter through presentations and academic publications, including to psychologists; and for the rediscovery, occasional discovery, and regular synthesis and personal use and distribution, of possibly hundreds of psychoactive compounds (for their psychedelic and MDMA-like empathogenic bioactivities). As such, Shulgin is seen both as a pioneering and a controversial participant in the emergence of the broad use of psychedelics.
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Elizabeth Blackburn
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- university teacherbiologistbiochemistmolecular biologist
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Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian-American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming the first Australian woman Nobel laureate.
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Shen Fu-hsiung
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
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Shen Fu-hsiung is a Taiwanese physician and politician.
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Anne F. Luetkemeyer
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United States - Occupations
- infectious disease physician
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Annie F. Luetkemeyer is an American physician and researcher who is Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. She specializes in infectious diseases, in particular tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus and viral hepatitis. During the COVID-19 pandemic Luetkemeyer led a clinical trial of remdesivir. She has also researched treatment of COVID-19 as a co-infection with HIV.
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David Julius
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- physiologistuniversity teacherbiochemist
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David Jay Julius is an American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat, including the characterization of the TRPV1 and TRPM8 receptors that detect capsaicin, menthol, and temperature. He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Stanley B. Prusiner
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- biochemistphysicianvirologistuniversity teacherneurologist
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Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, a scientific theory considered by many as a heretical idea when first proposed. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1994 and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1997 for research on prion diseases developed by him and his team of experts (D. E. Garfin, D. P. Stites, W. J. Hadlow, C. M. Eklund) beginning in the early 1970s.
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David Baker
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- bioinformaticianbiochemistry teacheruniversity teacherbiochemistcomputational biologist
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David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He was awarded the shared 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on computational protein design.
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Jack O'Neill
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- entrepreneurenvironmentalistsurfer
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Jack O'Neill was an American businessman and founder of the surfwear and surfboard company O'Neill.
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Andrew Baldwin
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- military officerreality television participantmodelsurgeonbiologist
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Andrew James Baldwin is a U.S. Navy officer, ironman triathlete, television personality, humanitarian, and physician. He appeared on the 10th season of the reality dating show The Bachelor. He is currently married with one son.
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Harold E. Varmus
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- university teachervirologist
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Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.
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Stuart Kauffman
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- biologistuniversity teacherbiophysicist
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Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Calgary. He is currently emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Systems Biology. He has a number of awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Wiener Medal.
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Michael V. Drake
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- academic administratorophthalmologist
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Michael Vincent Drake is an American university administrator and physician who is the 21st president of the University of California. Earlier, from 2014 to June 2020, he was the 15th president of Ohio State University. He was the chancellor of the University of California, Irvine from 2005 to 2014, and has also served as vice president for health affairs for the University of California system. He is the first African American to head The Ohio State University and the University of California.
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Richard Carmona
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- paramedicsurgeonpoliticiannurse
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Richard Henry Carmona is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the administration's ideological agenda.
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Mary-Claire King
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- 1974-1976 graduated with postdoctoral researcher
- Occupations
- university teacherhuman rights activistgeneticistbiologist
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Mary-Claire King is an American geneticist. She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1. She studies human genetics and is particularly interested in genetic heterogeneity and complex traits. She studies the interaction of genetics and environmental influences and their effects on human conditions such as breast and ovarian cancer, inherited deafness, schizophrenia, HIV, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. She has been the American Cancer Society Professor of the Department of Genome Sciences and of Medical Genetics in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington since 1995.
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Alfredo Quińones- Hinojosa
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- neurosurgeononcologistneuroscientistuniversity teachersurgeon
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Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa is a Mexican-American neurosurgeon, author, and researcher. Currently, he is the William J. and Charles H. Mayo Professor and Chair of Neurologic Surgery and runs a basic science research lab at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville in Florida.
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J. Michael Bishop
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- immunologistphysicianvirologistchemistmicrobiologist
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John Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus. He serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also served as chancellor from 1998 to 2009.
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Michael A. Klaper
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- documentary participantphysician
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Michael A. Klaper is an American physician, vegan health educator, conference and event speaker, and an author of articles and books of vegan medical advice. Graduating from medical school in 1972, Klaper became a vegan ten years later and subsequently became active in the area, publishing three books advocating veganism and serving as a founding director of the Institute of Nutrition Education and Research.
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Dacher Keltner
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- university teacherpsychologist
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Dacher Joseph Keltner is a Mexican-born American professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab.
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Pablo DT Valenzuela
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- businesspersonbiochemist
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Pablo Valenzuela is a Chilean biochemist dedicated to biotechnology development. He is known for his genetic studies of hepatitis viruses; participated as R&D Director in the discovery of hepatitis C virus and the invention of the world's first recombinant vaccine (against hepatitis B virus). He is one of the cofounders of the biotechnology company Chiron Corporation and of Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida, a private non profit institution where he is currently working.
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Julie Gerberding
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- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Julie Louise Gerberding is an American infectious disease expert who was the first woman to serve as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of May 2022, she is the CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). Gerberding grew up in Estelline, South Dakota, attended Brookings High School, and earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Case Western Reserve University. She was the chief medical resident at the University of California, San Francisco where she treated hospitalized AIDS patients in the first years of the epidemic. Gerberding became a nationally-recognized figure during the 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States during her tenure as the acting deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases, where she was a prominent spokeswoman for the CDC during daily briefings regarding the attacks and aftermath. Gerberding then served as CDC director from 2002 to 2009, and was then hired as an administrator at Merck.
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Alice Wong
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- sociologistactivistblogger
- Biography
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Alice Wong is an American disability rights activist based in San Francisco, California.
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Thomas R. Insel
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- researcherneuroscientistpsychiatrist
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Thomas Roland Insel is an American neuroscientist, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and author who led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until November 2015. Prior to becoming Director of NIMH, he was the founding Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for research on oxytocin and vasopressin, two peptide hormones implicated in complex social behaviors, such as parental care and attachment. He announced on Sept. 15, 2015, that he was resigning as the director of the NIMH to join the Life Science division of Google X (now Verily Life Sciences). On May 8, 2017, CNBC reported that he had left Verily Life Sciences. Insel is a Co-founder with Richard Klausner and Paul Dagum of a digital mental health company named "Mindstrong," a Bay-area startup. He has also co-founded Humanest Care, NeuraWell Therapeutics, and MindSite News and is a member of the scientific advisory board for Compass Pathways, a company that is developing the psychedelic drug psilocybin to treat depression and other mental health disorders. His book, Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health was published by Penguin Random House in February, 2022.
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Ethan Canin
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- writernovelistscreenwriter
- Biography
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Ethan Andrew Canin is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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Mai al-Kaila
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- gynecologistuniversity teacherpoliticiandiplomatnurse
- Biography
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Mai Al-Kaila is a Palestinian doctor, diplomat and politician, and the first woman to hold the position of Health Minister of Palestine. She holds a PhD in public health and health administration. She chaired the Palestinian Medical Council in her capacity as Health Minister. She is also part of the Palestinian Authority headed by current prime minister Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh.
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William Ralph Brody
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- scientistradiologist
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William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.
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Andrea Gamarnik
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- In 1999 graduated with postdoctoral degree
- Occupations
- virologistresearcherbiochemist
- Biography
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Andrea Gamarnik is an Argentine molecular virologist noted for her work on Dengue fever. She received a 2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science fellowship for work on mosquito-borne viruses include Dengue fever. She also was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma in 2013 and the Platinum Konex Award in 2023 for her work in those last decades. She studied at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of California, San Francisco. She has done work for the Leloir Institute. She is the first female Argentinian to become a member of the American Academy of Microbiology.
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Ashutosh Tewari
- Occupations
- surgeonresearcherurologist
- Biography
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Ashutosh K. Tewari is the surgeon in chief of urology at the Tisch Cancer Hospital. He is the chairman of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is a board certified American urologist, oncologist, and principal investigator. Before moving to the Icahn School of Medicine in 2013, he was the founding director of both the Center for Prostate Cancer at Weill Cornell Medical College and the LeFrak Center for Robotic Surgery at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. Tewari was the Ronald P. Lynch endowed Chair of Urologic Oncology and the hospital's director of robotic prostatectomy, treating patients with prostate, urinary bladder and other urological cancers. He is the current president of the Society for Urologic Robotic Surgeons (SURS) and the Committee Chair of the Prostate Program. Tewari is a world-leading urological surgeon, and has performed over 10,000 robotically assisted procedures using the da Vinci Surgical System. Academically, he is recognized as a world-renowned expert on urologic oncology with over 250 peer reviewed published papers to his credit; he is on such lists as America's Top Doctors, New York Magazine's Best Doctors, and Who's Who in the World. In 2012, he was given the American Urological Association Gold Cystoscope Award for "outstanding contributions to the field of urologic oncology, most notably the treatment of prostate cancer and the development of novel techniques to improve the outcomes of robotic prostatectomy."
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Robert M. Wachter
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- physicianscientistacademic
- Biography
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Robert M. "Bob" Wachter is an academic physician and author. He is on the faculty of University of California, San Francisco, where he is chairman of the Department of Medicine, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine, and the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine. He is generally regarded as the academic leader of the hospitalist movement, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine. He and a colleague, Lee Goldman, are known for coining the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article.
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Jim Warren
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- computer scientistbusinessperson
- Biography
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Jim Warren was an American mathematics and computing educator, computer professional, entrepreneur, editor, publisher and continuing sometime activist.
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Kay Tye
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- In 2008 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in neuroscience
- Occupations
- neuroscientistresearcher
- Biography
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Kay M. Tye is an American neuroscientist and professor and Wylie Vale Chair in the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. Her research has focused on using optogenetics to identify connections in the brain that are involved in innate emotion, motivation and social behaviors.
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Eric Goosby
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- physicianHIV/AIDS activist
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Eric Goosby is an American public health official, currently serving as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics, Institute for Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Goosby previously served as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis as well as previously served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator from 2009 until mid-November 2013. In the role, Goosby directed the U.S. strategy for addressing HIV around the world and led President Obama's implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Goosby was sworn in during June 2009 and resigned in November 2013, taking a position as a professor at UCSF, where he directs the Center for Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy, a collaboration between UCSF and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Adam Gazzaley
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- researcherneurologist
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Adam Gazzaley is an American neuroscientist, author, photographer, entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder and executive director of Neuroscape and the David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is co-founder and chief science advisor of Akili Interactive Labs and JAZZ Venture Partners. Gazzaley is the inventor of the first video game approved by the FDA as a medical treatment. He is a board of trustee member, science council member and fellow of the California Academy of Sciences. He has authored over 190 scientific articles.
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Stafford L. Warren
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- physicianradiologist
- Biography
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Stafford Leak Warren was an American physician and radiologist who was a pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine and best known for his invention of the mammogram. Warren developed the technique of producing stereoscopic images of the breast with X-rays while working in the Department of Radiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
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Charles Sawyers
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- physicianuniversity teacheroncologist
- Biography
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Charles L. Sawyers is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator who holds the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). HOPP is a program created in 2006 that comprises researchers from many disciplines to bridge clinical and laboratory discoveries.
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Susan Desmond-Hellmann
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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Sue Desmond-Hellmann is an American oncologist and biotechnology leader who served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014 to 2020. In March 2024 she was elected as a board member of OpenAI. She was previously Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the first woman to hold the position, and Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor, and before that president of product development at Genentech, where she played a role in the development of the first gene-targeted cancer drugs, Avastin and Herceptin.
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Titia de Lange
- Occupations
- geneticistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Titia de Lange is the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research, the Leon Hess professor and the head of Laboratory Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University.
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Rita Ng
- Occupations
- physiciancardiologistbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Rita Ng from Tracy, California is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss California 2000 and is currently a practicing cardiologist. Ng was the first person of Asian descent to be crowned Miss California.
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Beulah Ream Allen
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- In 1932 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- nursephysician
- Biography
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Beulah Ream Allen was an American nurse, physician, and civilian physician during World War II. After graduating with a nursing degree in 1922, she worked as a supervising nurse and headed the educational department for the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. She worked as a hospital inspector for the state of Utah until 1928, when she moved to San Francisco to attend medical school. While earning her degree at the University of California, San Francisco, she worked as a nurse in the Bay Area. Upon her graduation in 1932, she moved to the Philippines, where she opened a medical practice.
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John Shine
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- biochemistmolecular biologistgeneticist
- Biography
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John Shine AC FRS FAA is an Australian biochemist and molecular biologist. Shine and Lynn Dalgarno discovered a nucleotide sequence, called the Shine–Dalgarno sequence, necessary for the initiation of protein synthesis. He directed the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney from 1990 to 2011. From 2018 to 2022, Shine was President of the Australian Academy of Science.
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Sonia Y. Angell
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Sonia Yris Angell is an American public health figure. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Practice of American Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Angell also maintains a clinical professorship of medicine in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2020, after resigning as director of the California Department of Public Health, Angell was elected a Member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Hiroko Minami
- Occupations
- nurse scientist
- Biography
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Hiroko Minami, is a Japanese Nurse leader and educator. She has been working to advance nursing in Japan, including education, service, and research for more than 30 years.
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Don W. Cleveland
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- neurobiologistchemistresearcher
- Biography
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Don W. Cleveland is an American cancer biologist and neurobiologist.
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M. Ted Wong
- Occupations
- dentist
- Biography
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Ming T. "Ted" Wong is a retired major general and dentist in the United States Army. He was Chief of the US Army Dental Corps from 2010 until his retirement in 2014 and variously served as Commander for the Western Regional Medical Command, the North Atlantic Regional Dental Command, the Southern Regional Medical Command, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, the Northern Regional Medical Command, and the Brooke Army Medical Center, among others.
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Virginia Man-Yee Lee
- Occupations
- academicpathologist
- Biography
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Virginia Man-Yee Lee is a Chinese-born American biochemist and neuroscientist who specializes in the research of Alzheimer's disease. She is the current John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer's Research at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and the director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and co-director of the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Drug Discovery Program at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. She received the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
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Robert Malenka
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Robert C. Malenka is a Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the director of the Nancy Friend Pritzker Laboratory in the Stanford Medical Center. He is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Malenka's laboratory research with the National Alzheimer's Foundation has informed researchers aiming to find a neuronal basis for Alzheimer's disease. Malenka's main career is focused on studying the mechanisms of synaptic plasticity and the effects of neural circuits on learning and memory.
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Zoé Samudzi
- Years
- 20th Century
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in sociology
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Zoé Samudzi is a Zimbabwean-American writer and activist known for her book As Black as Resistance. Samudzi has written for The New Inquiry, The Daily Beast and Vice magazine. Samudzi was a 2017 Public Imagination Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Photography Department at the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Stuart A. Aaronson
- Occupations
- university teacheroncologist
- Biography
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Stuart A. Aaronson is an American author and cancer biologist. He has authored more than 500 publications and holds over 50 patents, and was the Jane B. and Jack R. Aron Professor of Neoplastic Diseases and Chairman of Oncological Sciences at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City until March 2013, when he assumed the title of Founding Chair Emeritus of the Department of Oncological Sciences. The current Chairman of Oncological Sciences is Ramon E. Parsons.
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Douglas Girod
- Biography
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Douglas Allan Girod is an American educator, medical doctor, and the 18th University of Kansas chancellor. Prior to becoming chancellor, he was the University of Kansas Medical Center's executive vice chancellor, a position he had held since February 2013. Before being promoted to the executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Girod was the senior dean for the School of Medicine while dually serving as a surgeon at the University of Kansas Health System where he began his career in 1994. He is also a veteran of the United States Navy Reserve.
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Nevan Krogan
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Nevan J. Krogan is a Canadian molecular and systems biologist. He is a professor and the Director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), as well as a senior investigator at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.
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Michael Marletta
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- biochemistresearcher
- Biography
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Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist. He was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Italian immigrants. He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1973 with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the University of California, San Francisco in 1978 with a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, where he studied with George Kenyon. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Christopher T. Walsh at MIT from 1978-1980 and continued as a faculty member at MIT from 1980-1987 whereupon he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was John G. Searle Professor of Medicinal Chemistry in the college of pharmacy and professor of biological chemistry at the University of Michigan. In 2001, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley to assume roles as Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and served as the chair of the department of chemistry from 2005 until 2010. He was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. From January 2012 to August 2014, Marletta was president and CEO of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, succeeding Richard Lerner.
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Ramanujan Shankar Hegde
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Ramanujan Shankar Hegde FRS is a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
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Barry S. Fogel
- Occupations
- neurologistneuroscientistpsychiatrist
- Biography
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Barry S. Fogel is an American neuropsychiatrist, behavioral neurologist, medical writer, medical educator and inventor. He is the senior author of a standard text in neuropsychiatry and medical psychiatry, and a founder of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the International Neuropsychiatric Association.
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Mary Katharine Brandegee
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- In 1878 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- editorbotanistbotanical collector
- Biography
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Mary Katharine Brandegee was an American botanist known for her comprehensive studies of flora in California.
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Seth M. Holmes
- Years
- 1975-.. (age 50)
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- Graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- cultural anthropologistphysiciananthropologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Seth M. Holmes is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He also serves as founder and co-chair (with Charles L. Briggs) of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, co-director (with Ian Whitmarsh) of the MD/Ph.D. Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UCSF. A cultural anthropologist and physician, Holmes focuses on social inequalities, immigration, ethnic hierarchies, health and health care. His work has provided a particularly strong ethnographic critique of behaviorism in medicine.
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Douglas Koshland
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Douglas E. Koshland is a professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
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Rong Li
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- 1988-1992 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Rong Li is the Director of Mechanobiology Institute, a Singapore Research Center of Excellence, at the National University of Singapore. She is a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Biological Sciences and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering. She previously served as Director of Center for Cell Dynamics in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine’s Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. She is a leader in understanding cellular asymmetry, division and evolution, and specifically, in how eukaryotic cells establish their distinct morphology and organization in order to carry out their specialized functions.
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Laura Stachel
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Laura Stachel is a former medical doctor who founded and leads We Care Solar, a nonprofit that manufactures and deploys solar electric systems the size of a suitcase for use in medical clinics in the developing world. She is also the mother of actor and singer Ari'el Stachel.
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Tejal A. Desai
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Tejal Ashwin Desai is Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, she was the Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the Health Innovations via Engineering Initiative (HIVE), and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. She was formerly an associate professor at Boston University (2002–06) and an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago (1998–2001). She is a researcher in the area of therapeutic micro and nanotechnology and has authored and edited at least one book on the subject and another on biomaterials.
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Keith Yamamoto
- Occupations
- biochemist
- Biography
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Keith R. Yamamoto is vice chancellor of Science Policy and Strategy and professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF). He also holds the position of Director of UCSF Precision Medicine. He is known for his Molecular Biology and Biochemistry research on nuclear receptors and his involvement in science policy and precision medicine.
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Christopher deCharms
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Dr. Christopher deCharms is a neuroscientist, author, and inventor. Currently, deCharms is the founder and CEO of Brainful, a life-sciences companies focused on neurotechnology, including technology based on imaging methods that allow people to watch the activation of their own brains 'live' using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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Leslie Z. Benet
- Occupations
- pharmacistresearcherpharmacologist
- Biography
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Leslie 'Les' Zachary Benet is an influential pharmaceutical scientist heading the UCSF's Benet Lab at the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and recipient of the Remington Medal for distinguished service to American pharmacy.
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Bik-Kwoon Tye
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Bik Kwoon Yeung Tye is a Chinese-American molecular geneticist and structural biologist. Tye's pioneering work on eukaryotic DNA replication led to the discovery of the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) genes in 1984, which encode the catalytic core of the eukaryotic replisome. Tye also determined the first high-resolution structures of both the MCM complex and the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) in 2015 and 2018. Tye is currently a Professor Emeritus (2015) at Cornell University. She is married to Henry Sze-Hoi Tye and is the mother of Kay Tye and Lynne Tye.
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Tim Stearns
- Occupations
- university teacheracademicgeneticistmolecular biologist
- Biography
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Tim Stearns is an American biologist and university administrator, and is the Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies, Vice President of Education, and Head of Laboratory at The Rockefeller University. Stearns was formerly the Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, with appointments in the Department of Genetics and the Cancer Center in the Stanford Medical School. Stearns served as chair of the Department of Biology at Stanford as well as Acting Dean of Research and Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research. Stearns is an HHMI Professor, and is a member of JASON, a scientific advisory group. He has served on the editorial boards of The Journal of Cell Biology, Genetics and Molecular Biology of the Cell.
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Anne B. Young
- Occupations
- neuroscientist
- Biography
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Anne Buckingham Young is an American physician and neuroscientist who has made major contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases, with a focus on movement disorders like Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease. Young completed her undergraduate studies at Vassar College and earned a dual MD/PhD from Johns Hopkins Medical School. She has held faculty positions at University of Michigan and Harvard University. She became the first female chief of service at Massachusetts General Hospital when she was appointed Chief of Neurology in 1991. She retired from this role and from clinical service in 2012. She is a member of many academic societies and has won numerous awards. Young is also the only person to have been president of both the international Society for Neuroscience and the American Neurological Association.
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William Seeley
- Years
- 1971-.. (age 54)
- Occupations
- neuroscientistneurologist
- Biography
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William W. Seeley is an American neurologist. He is a Professor of Neurology and Pathology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He leads the Selective Vulnerability Research Lab at UCSF. He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.
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Jodi Nunnari
- Occupations
- biologist
- Biography
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Jodi Nunnari is an American cell biologist and pioneer in the field of mitochondrial biology. She is currently the director of the Bay Area Institute of Science, a founding principal investigator at the biotechnology company Altos Labs, and director of its Bay Area Institute of Science. She is a distinguished professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Davis while also serving as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cell Biology. Nunnari served as president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2018.
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Jane Harding
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- researcher
- Biography
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Dame Jane Elizabeth Harding is a New Zealand academic new-born intensive case specialist (neonatologist). She was awarded the Rutherford Medal in 2019. Harding is the incoming president of the New Zealand national academy of sciences, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, with her term beginning in July 2024.
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Kristine Yaffe
- Occupations
- scientistphysician
- Biography
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Kristine Yaffe is an American Cognitive decline and dementia researcher. She is the Scola Endowed Chair and Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Population Brain Health at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2019, Yaffe was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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William J. Schwartz
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- Studied in 1978-1981
- Occupations
- university teacherneurologist
- Biography
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William Joseph Schwartz is an American neurologist and scientist who serves as Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Education in the neurology department at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. His work on the neurobiology of circadian timekeeping has focused on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus. Schwartz demonstrated that the suprachiasmatic nucleus is rhythmic in vivo using a 2-deoxyglucose radioactive marker for functional brain imaging. As of 2014, he is editor of the Journal of Biological Rhythms.
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Oscar Gonzalez-Perez
- Occupations
- neuroscientistresearcher
- Biography
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Oscar Gonzalez-Perez is professor of neuroscience in the School of Psychology at the University of Colima, Mexico. He has been honorary professor of neuroscience in the Doctorado en Ciencias Biomedicas at the University of Guadalajara and invited professor of neuroscience and cellular medicine in the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory of Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the leader of a scientific network named Neuro-biopsychology Basic and Applied.
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Kevin Lustig
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Kevin Donald Lustig is an American scientist and entrepreneur and founder of three life science companies: the pharmaceutical company Kalypsys in 2001; the online research marketplace Scientist.com (formerly Assay Depot) in 2007; and the non-profit lab incubator Bio, Tech and Beyond in 2013.
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Jeanne Quint Benoliel
- Occupations
- nursescientist
- Biography
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Jeanne Quint Benoliel was an American nurse who studied the role of nursing in end-of-life settings. She founded the Ph.D. program at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She was designated a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Edith Claypole
- Occupations
- physiologistphysicianpathologist
- Biography
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Edith Jane Claypole was an English-American physiologist and pathologist.
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Shirley Chater
- Occupations
- nurse
- Biography
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Shirley Sears Chater is an American nurse, educational administrator and government official who served as the 12th commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 1993 until 1997. In the 1970s and 1980s, Chater held faculty appointments in nursing and education at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. She worked as an administrator at UCSF and then worked for two national education councils.
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Lucy Wanzer
- Occupations
- physicianteacherobstetrician
- Biography
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Lucy Maria Field Wanzer was the first woman to be admitted to and graduate from an American medical school west of the Rocky Mountains.
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Barbara Brannon
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Barbara Brannon is a retired major general in the United States Air Force who served as head of the Air Force Nurse Corps.
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Frank Gotch
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Frank A. Gotch was an American physician known for his work in renal dialysis adequacy, specifically the development of Kt/V and standardized Kt/V. He was an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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Rudi Schmid
- Occupations
- hepatologist
- Biography
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Rudi Schmid was a Swiss-born American medical researcher specializing in hepatology. Among his contributions to biomedical science, Schmid led a team to discover heme oxygenase.
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Sheue-yann Cheng
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- Enrolled in the University of California - San Francisco
- In 1966 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in pharmaceutical chemistry
- Occupations
- molecular biologistcancer researchergeneticistpharmaceutical chemist
- Biography
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Sheue-yann Cheng is an American molecular geneticist who pioneered the development of mouse models to understand the molecular basis of diseases due to mutations of thyroid hormone receptors. Cheng is a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute and chief of the gene regulation section.
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Judith Fradkin
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Judith E. Fradkin is an American physician-scientist. She was the director of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases from 2000 to 2018.
