By Jeffrey Norris via UCSF.edu
UCSF is a health-sciences research powerhouse – a premier academic medical center that values not only the physician who designs clinical trial protocols for promising experimental drugs, but also the talented lab scientist who unearths nature’s secrets on the molecular and cellular levels.
It's a place where basic scientists, population scientists and clinical researchers work together to translate basic biological discoveries into new solutions for preventing and treating human diseases.
The University also advances discovery through partnerships with business, industry and other research organizations. In the most recent tally, UCSF topped all other public universities in research funds awarded from the National Institutes of Health, the federal agency that – based on competitive review of research proposals – awards the bulk of federal health sciences research dollars.
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