News
Update from the Dean - Spring/Summer 2009
New chancellor: Desmond-Hellman; budget update: 4% to 10% salary cuts via furloughs, possibly to be renewed; risk of poison control system closure; new Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences; faculty honors and awards: Burchard, Peck, Desai, Roy, Bero, MacDougall, Hessol, Phillips, Tsourounis, Apollonio, Wells, Fujimori. Appointments: Babbitt, Sali, Wells, Benowitz. PharmD and PhD students: Yi, Hertema, grad students publish 100+ papers in the past year, Science Day, CCB training grant renewal and praise, welcome to UCSF/UCB Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering. Research: Brodsky, Voigt, Burlingame, Hunt, Shoichet, Irwin, Apollonio, Malone, Wells, Shahian, Craik, Lee, Lazic. In the news: Speedie and Koda-Kimble, Voigt, Soller. Campus: Hawgood, Bluestone, McCormick, Medical Center, Laret.
Update from the Dean - Fall/Winter 2009
Dire financial times, budget tightens. San Diego satellite program to end. Honors and Awards: Benet, Giacomini, Kroetz, Winter, Day, Yokoyama, Soller, Vogt, Wang, Saraiya, Elmore, Clemens, Rocklin, Heller. New associate deans Santi and Kayser. New faculty: Gartner, Roy. Pharmacogenomics: Phillips, Ikediobi, Shin. UCSF Medical Center collaborations, Paulson. In the news: Bero, Rising, Bacchetti, Wells, Woolley. Ranked #1 again by U.S. News and World Report. Featherstone becomes School of Dentistry dean. Bishop to step down.