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Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2012
Research: growth over past decade from $17.6 to 43.5 million, Apollonio, Roy, Wells, Center for Quantitative Pharmacology, Quantitative Biosciences Consortium. Faculty: DeGrado, Savic, James, Day, Rice, MacDougall, Fischbach, Huang. Students: Hluhanich, Frear, Gavrilova, Gayle, Tantipinichwong, Vuong, Etemadi. New appointments: Nordberg, Rhode. Medical Center: APeX, Brodowy, Laret. Proposal to UC Regents: Desmond-Hellmann, working group. Strategic plan. Stepping down as dean, “Axe Handles” by Gary Snyder.
Update from the Dean - Spring/Summer 2011
Faculty awards: Cutler, Fujimori, Huang, Wells. New faculty members: Abate, VanOsdol, Rodondi. Retiring faculty members: Kahl, Shafer, Wang, Kayser, Koo. PharmD students: Campbell, Wheeler, Ho, Lam, Campbell, Loucks, Marotto, Huynh, Luu, Chua, Stephens. PhD students: Gray. New appointments: Penick Brock, Williams. Research update: Giacomini, Uskokovic, Long-Boyle, Cheng, Guglielmo, Phillips, Bero, Kayser, Dennehy, Finley, Burchard, Burlingame, Wells, Jacobson, Fujimori, Renslo, Prusiner. Retirements: Parfitt Pattie, Lee. Budget: $650 million cut from 2011-2012 fiscal year, student fees raised 9.6%. Leadership: Desmond-Hellmann, Hellmann, Rodondi. Operational Excellence continues. CTSI receives renewed funding. Vlahov is new dean of School of Nursing. Yamamoto is new vice chancellor for research. UCSF Medical Center named 7th best hospital.
Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2011
US$1 billion budget gap, student fee increases likely to continue, Levens Lipton keynote address to CPhA, Nkansah and the Dr. Oz television show, Bero and The Cochrane Collaboration and the World Health Assembly, Roy unveils model of bioartificial kidney; Faculty awards: Huang, Galonić Fujimori, Gartner, Fischbach, Craik, Shoichet, Wells, Giacomini, Kayser, Lofholm; Student awards: Murphy and Bermingham, Kusaka, Campbell, Lindsay; Class of 2014 statistics; A call for summer internship positions; Desai's Masters in Translational Medicine program doubles in size; Biological and Medical Informatics reviewed, Clinical and Translational Informatics track recommended for discontinuation and separation, Bioinformatics track praised; Teaching and Learning Center opens; Ortiz de Montellano is new associate dean of research; California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences celebrates 10 years; Desai completes sponsored research agreement with Zcube s.r.l.; 31st consecutive year of top research funding from National Institutes of Health; Recent publications; New faculty: Sakowski. California Poison Control System again in danger of closing, UCSF incorporates high-tech robots into dispensing process for hospitals at new Mission Bay pharmacy facility; Openings: Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building; Navarro named first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach; Castro promoted to chancellor for student academic affairs; Hawkins promoted to associate vice chancellor for campus life, facilities, and administrative services.