The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Launches

The Biohub is a project of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative led by Joe DeRisi of UCSF, and Steve Quake of Stanford University including a partnership with UC Berkeley. With the three partnering universities serving as the backbone to the Biohub's mission statement and together with the expertise of the best scientists, investigators, and engineers the science community offers, nothing is deemed impossible!

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Bruce Alberts receives 2016 Lasker~Koshland Award

We share the Chancellor's excitement in announcing the news that Bruce Alberts, PhD, UCSF Chancellor's Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education, has received the 2016-Lasker~Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science. One of the highest honors in biomedicine, this award is given every two years by the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation. More...

2015-16 Teacher of the Year goes to Tracy Fulton!

Oh behalf of Biochemistry and the School of Pharmacy Class of 2019, congratulations to Dr. Tracy Fulton for being selected by students as the 2015-2016 Teacher of the Year for Biochemistry of Human Metabolism (BC 112). This is what some students have to say about her.... More...