University of California, San Francisco

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The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), located in San Francisco, California, is one of the University of California campuses. It is the only one to offer no undergraduate instruction. Instead, it focuses on biomedical research, training physicians and graduate students. As in the tradition of the University of California's credo of service, UCSF accepts professional students principally from California. The only University of California medical school to not use this bias is UCLA's David Geffen.

UCSF is known mostly for its AIDS research, patient care and community care projects; over the years it has grown in prominence along with other major medical research universities such as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Duke, and Washington University as a training ground for medical researchers in offering a PhD in a biomedical subject as well as a medical doctorate.

UCSF is virtually unique in that it does research almost completely within medical disciplines and tops all medical schools in NSF-NIH funding at $433 million (2000). It ranks 9th overall in the nation for all research universities solely for its R&D funding within the medical sciences. Second to UCSF is Johns Hopkins at nearly $300 million spent in 2000.

External link

UCSF website