List of chancellors The following persons led UCSF as chancellor: Table notes:
Notable alumni and faculty •
Nadav Ahituv, director for the institute for human genetics •
Bruce Alberts, 2016
Albert Lasker Special Achievement Award for fundamental discoveries in DNA replication and protein biochemistry, 2012
National Medal of Science •
James P. Allison, 2018
Nobel laureate for the discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation •
Andy Baldwin, bachelor for the tenth season of
The Bachelor •
Carolyn Bertozzi,
Nobel laureate, known for the development of
click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry •
J. Michael Bishop, former UCSF Chancellor.
Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989), worked to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes •
Elizabeth Blackburn, professor of biology and physiology at UCSF,
Nobel laureate in Medicine (2009), discoverer of the
ribonucleoprotein enzyme,
telomerase. Appointed a member of the
President's Council on Bioethics in 2001 and fired in February 2004, reportedly for her public disagreements and political differences with Council chair
Leon Kass and the Bush Administration, particularly on the issue of
therapeutic cloning •
Herbert Boyer, National Medal of Science (1990) and Shaw prize 2004, cofounder of
Genentech •
Benjamin Breyer, professor of Urology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics •
Enoch Callaway, psychiatrist, co-founder of the
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and
Neurobiological Technologies •
Robin Carhart-Harris, British psychopharmacologist researching psychoactive and psychedelic drugs •
Richard Carmona, former
Surgeon General of the United States •
Priscilla Chan, pediatrician, spouse of Facebook CEO
Mark Zuckerberg •
John Allen Clements, first to isolate
pulmonary surfactant and to develop it artificially •
Terence Coderre, professor of Medicine and the Harold Griffith Chair in Anaesthesia Research at
McGill University •
Eric Coleman is an American geriatrician and professor at the University of Colorado. His research concerns care transitions. Coleman was awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 2012. •
Lindsey A. Criswell,
rheumatologist and director of the
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. •
Mary Croughan, epidemiologist and provost of
University of California, Davis •
Zubin Damania, physician, comedian, internet personality, musician, and founder of Turntable Health •
Haile T. Debas, former UCSF Chancellor; former Dean, School of Medicine; founding Executive Director, Department of Global Health Sciences •
Joseph DeRisi biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology. In 2004 was named a MacArthur Fellow, in 2008 was awarded the 14th Annual Heinz Award for Technology, the Economy, and Employment, in 2014 he received the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science from the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences •
Michael V. Drake, former
University of California, Irvine Chancellor; former University of California Vice President-Health Affairs; former president of
Ohio State University; current president of the
University of California •
Jennifer Doudna, adjunct professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology, Nobel laureate in Chemistry (2020) •
Laura J. Esserman, surgeon and breast cancer oncology specialist, named in
Times 100 most influential people in the world in 2016. •
Paul Ekman, psychologist who showed that human emotional expressions were universal and developed the
Facial Action Coding System •
Richard Feachem, founding Executive Director of the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (2002–2007) •
Faith Thayer Fitzgerald,
UC Davis chief of general medicine and winner of multiple teaching awards •
Courtney Fitzhugh, physician and laboratory director at the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute •
Diana E. Forsythe, anthropologist noted for her work on artificial intelligence and medical informatics •
Julie Gerberding, Director,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) •
Stanton Glantz, anti-big-tobacco activist •
Joseph Goldyne, M.D., fine artist, printmaker, painter, curator. •
Jere E. Goyan, former commissioner of the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration •
Walter S. Graf, cardiologist, pioneer in creation of emergency paramedic care system •
Geoffrey C. Gurtner, microsurgeon, researcher and medical academic •
Victoria Hale, both alumna and professor, founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company
The Institute for OneWorld Health, 2006 MacArthur Fellow •
Jeffry B. Lansman is a
neuroscientist,
Professor Emeritus of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology •
Joseph Gilbert Hamilton, Hamilton studied the medical effects of exposure to radioactive isotopes, which included the use of unsuspecting human subjects •
Eva Harris, professor in the
School of Public Health at the
University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and president of the Sustainable Sciences Institute. Research efforts focused on combating diseases that primarily afflict people in developing nations; 1997 MacArthur Fellows Program •
Michael R. Harrison, developed the initial techniques for
fetal surgery and performed the first fetal surgery in 1981, and then went on to establish the
UCSF Fetal Treatment Center, which was the first of its kind in the United States •
Griffith R. Harsh, vice chair of the Stanford Department of Neurosurgery and the director of the Stanford Brain Tumor Center. He is also the spouse of
Meg Whitman. •
Ira Herskowitz, geneticist, noted for his work on cellular differentiation, 1987
MacArthur Fellows Program •
Julien Hoffman, professor emeritus of pediatrics; senior member of the Cardiovascular Research Institute •
Dorothy M. Horstmann (1911–2001), virologist who made important discoveries about
polio. •
Nola Hylton, radiologist and pioneer in the use of
Breast MRI •
Janet Iwasa, cell biologist and animator •
David Julius,
physiologist known for his work on molecular mechanisms underlying detection of thermal stimuli and natural products. Received the 2010 Shaw Prize, 2017 Gairdner Award, 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, 2020
Kavli Prize in neuroscience, 2021 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine. •
Sarah H. Kagan, American gerontological nurse and Lucy Walker Honorary Term Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a MacArthur Fellow. •
Yuet Wai Kan, Lasker Award (1991) and Shaw Prize (2004) •
Selna Kaplan, former professor of pediatrics;
pediatric endocrinologist •
Stuart Kauffman, American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Calgary. He has a number of awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Wiener Medal. •
C. Henry Kempe, M.D., pediatrician who was the first to identify and recognize
child abuse •
Uzma Khanum, sister of Pakistani Politician Imran Khan •
David Kessler, former dean of the UCSF School of Medicine and
Yale University School of Medicine, and former Commissioner of the
Food and Drug Administration in the Clinton Administration •
Peter Kollman, developer of the
AMBER force field in
molecular dynamics simulation and an internationally renowned
computational chemist •
Arthur Lander, M.D. PhD Developmental biologist at
University of California, Irvine •
Jeanne LaBerge, M.D.,
Interventional radiologist •
Marguerita Lightfoot, Professor of Medicine and Chief of Prevention Science, •
Bernadette Lim, American physician, community organizer, founder of the Freedom Community Clinic in Oakland, CA •
Jay A. Levy, research physician who, along with
Robert Gallo at the
National Cancer Institute and
Luc Montagnier at the
Pasteur Institute, was among the first to identify and isolate HIV as the causative agent in AIDS •
Richard Locksley, medical doctor, professor and researcher of
infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco •
Michael Marletta, Ch and Annie Li Chair in the Molecular Biology of Diseases at the University of California, Berkeley. 1995 MacArthur Fellow. •
C. Cameron Macauley, photographer and film producer •
Wendy Max, professor of Health Economics •
Michael Merzenich, Professor emeritus
neuroscientist, brain plasticity research, basic and clinical sciences of hearing pioneer, CEO Scientific Learning, Posit Science •
Dean Ornish, who first established that
coronary artery disease could be reversed with lifestyle changes alone, author of the few bestseller books on the subject of healthy lifestyle choices •
Laura Otis, American historian of science, and Professor of English, at Emory University, 2000 MacArthur Fellows Program •
Ardem Patapoutian,
Nobel Prize laureate known for his work in characterizing the
PIEZO1,
PIEZO2, and
TRPM8 receptors •
William W. Parmley, former Editor of the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology and
General Authority of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints •
Stanley Prusiner, Nobel laureate in Medicine (1997), discovered and described
prions •
Shuvo Roy, inventor of
artificial kidney •
William Seeley, alumni,
neurology professor at UCSFv, where he leads the Selective Vulnerability Research Lab. He is a 2011
MacArthur Fellow. •
Steve Schroeder, former CEO,
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation •
Michelle Tam, creator of
Nom Nom Paleo and
James Beard Foundation Award nominated cookbook author, blogger, and food writer •
Julie Theriot, microbiologist, professor at the
Stanford University School of Medicine, and heads the Theriot Lab. She was a Predoctoral Fellow, and Investigator at the
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2004 MacArthur Fellows Program •
Thea Tlsty, professor of pathology, known for her research in cancer biology •
Kay Tye, neuroscientist •
Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate in Medicine (1989), worked with
J. Michael Bishop to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. Also served as director of the
National Institutes of Health during the
Clinton Administration, as president of
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 2000 to 2010, and currently as the director of the
National Cancer Institute. •
Paul Volberding, whose pioneering work in the early days of the AIDS pandemic was noted in
Randy Shilts's book
And the Band Played On •
Robert M. Wachter, a prominent expert in patient safety, who coined the term hospitalist and is considered the academic leader of the field of
hospital medicine. Wachter is now chair of UCSF's Department of Medicine. •
Peter Walter, molecular biologist and biochemist, Shaw Prize (2014) and Lasker Award (2014) •
Ted Wong, United States Army Major General, Chief of the
U.S. Army Dental Corps (2011–2014) •
Ronald Vale, biochemist who has received the
Lasker Award (2012) and the
Shaw Prize (2017) •
Pablo DT Valenzuela, co-founder of the American biotech company Chiron Corporation, the first Chilean biotech company Bios Chile, and of Fundacion Ciencia para la Vida in Santiago Chile. •
V. Sasisekharan, proposed an alternate model for the
Watson-Crick double helix •
Kimberly Tanner, professor at
San Francisco State University •
Eric M. Verdin, fifth President and Chief Executive Officer of the
Buck Institute for Research on Aging •
George Whipple,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 for discoveries concerning
liver therapy in cases of
anemia. •
Rachel Wilson, professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, 2008 MacArthur Fellow •
Shinya Yamanaka, who developed for reprogramming adult cells to pluripotential precursors, thus circumventing an approach in which embryos would be destroyed. Yamanaka won Shaw prize in 2008 and the Nobel prize for Medicine in 2012. •
Keith Yamamoto, UCSF's first vice chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy and director of UCSF Precision Medicine; the leading researcher investigating
transcriptional regulation by
nuclear receptors. == Footnotes ==