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The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is the world's premier academic health sciences center and the only campus in the University of California system dedicated exclusively to graduate and professional education in health and biomedical sciences. Located across historic Parnassus Heights and Mission Bay in San Francisco, UCSF is the leading public recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding in the nation.
UCSF comprises the School of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, and Graduate Division. Its researchers have won six Nobel Prizes and made historic breakthroughs, including discovering oncogenes, developing recombinant DNA techniques, creating hepatitis B vaccines, and inventing artificial gene therapies.
Admissions are among the most selective in the world. Medical programs require AMCAS applications, CASPer exams, MCAT scores, and substantial clinical exposure. Biomedical doctoral programs are fully funded through the Graduate Division and require extensive bench research experience, academic transcripts, and letters of recommendation.
Elite doctoral program integrating mammalian genetics, cancer biology, immunology, vascular biology, and developmental biology across Mission Bay and Parnassus campuses.
Nationally top-ranked medical doctorate featuring the innovative Bridges curriculum, early clinical clerkships at UCSF Medical Center and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
World-leading doctoral program investigating computational drug discovery, drug delivery nanotechnology, membrane transporter biology, and personalized pharmacogenomics.
Premier neuroscience doctoral training exploring synaptic transmission, neural circuits, sensory perception, neurodegenerative pathology, and cognitive neurobiology.
One-year intensive interdisciplinary master's curriculum combining epidemiology, infectious disease control, global health policy, and an international field capstone project.
Joint doctoral program combining Berkeley's engineering excellence with UCSF's premier clinical medical environment to pioneer biomedical imaging, bioMEMS, and synthetic biology.
Nobel Laureate & Senior Investigator
Gladstone Institutes & Department of Anatomy
Dr. Yamanaka shared the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the breakthrough discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent st...
View researcher profile ↗Nobel Laureate & Adjunct Professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Dr. Doudna received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for co-developing CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, continuing translational biomedical genome editing research ...
View researcher profile ↗Howard Hughes Medical Investigator & Professor of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
Dr. Shokat pioneered the field of chemical genetics, synthesizing the first small molecules to successfully Drug the 'undruggable' K-Ras oncoprotein, revolution...
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