Graduate Division Fundraising Priorities
Unique and flexible programs within the Graduate Division offer
enormous potential for groundbreaking discoveries—and for
outstanding students to work with the best faculty in their fields.
Private support is needed to enable UCSF to launch and maintain
its innovative graduate programs, bring these breakthroughs into
being and train the next generation of researchers and clinicians.
Featured fundraising priorities associated with the Graduate Division
include:
Center for Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology
At the UCSF Center for Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology, researchers
examine the complicated role of mesenchymal stem cells—which
generate bone, muscle and fat—in craniofacial development.
Their findings could lead to new treatments for a wide variety
of ailments, including muscular dystrophy, obesity, osteoporosis
and cleft palate. Gifts to this priority will help remodel aging
facilities that house the Center’s laboratories and hire
additional faculty.
Center for Pharmacogenomics
The multidisciplinary Center for Pharmacogenomics explores the
creation and delivery of “smart drugs”—medications
tailored to best interact with the specific genetic characteristics
of individual patients. Gifts to this priority will help
the Center assemble core faculty, secure laboratory space, design
new teaching and research programs and forge links with the pharmaceutical
and biotechnology industries.
Graduate Program in Biological and Medical Informatics
A rapidly growing field that uses computers and statistics to
collect and analyze vast amounts of medical data, bioinformatics
is opening new frontiers in the understanding of human genetics,
biological structures, disease progression, individual patient
biochemistry and drug interactions. This new science will dramatically
increase the speed with which diseases are diagnosed and treatments
are developed. To prepare students to harness this remarkable
potential, UCSF has established a new PhD program in biological
and medical informatics. Gifts to this priority will help develop
the new curriculum and recruit an exceptional faculty.
To support one of these priorities, contact David Madson at
dmadson@support.ucsf.edu or
415/514-0590.
