Chancellor Mike Bishop will present the UCSF Medal, the University's most prestigious honor, at the Founders Day banquet on April 27 to four individuals who have made outstanding contributions to health sciences.
The four distinguished individuals who will receive the UCSF Medal are: New York Times health columnist Jane Brody; Andy Grove, founder of Intel Corp.; longtime faculty member Rudi Schmid and Maxine F. Singer, a distinguished biochemist and writer.
The campus community and friends of UCSF are invited to attend the Founders Day Banquet and Medal Ceremony on Thursday, April 27, at 7 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in San Francisco. The cost of the event is $80 per person. For more information or reservations, call 415/514-2444. Please respond early as capacity is limited.
Jane Brody
For four decades, Brody has been educating millions of people across the United States about a wide range of health and nutrition topics through her weekly newspaper columns, as well as 10 books, magazine articles and frequent lectures. Acknowledging Brody's large and loyal following of readers, Time magazine once hailed her as the "High Priestess of Health."
Brody began her career at the New York Times as a journalist specializing in science and medicine in 1965. In 1976, she was selected to be the Times' personal health columnist. Her columns on topics ranging from insomnia and exercise to depression and breast cancer appear in the Times' Science Times section every Tuesday and in more than 100 papers throughout the country. In addition, her articles on other aspects of science and medicine also appear in that section.
Brody also lectures frequently on health and nutrition to both lay public and professional audiences, and has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows throughout the United States. Among her 10 books on nutrition and health, "Jane Brody's Good Food Book," is considered a bible in many households for both its recipes and its clear and comprehensive information on nutrition.
Brody received her BS degree in biochemistry from the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, and a master's degree in science writing from the University of Wisconsin's School of Journalism. Brody holds honorary degrees from Princeton University, Hamline University in St. Paul, the State University of New York Health Sciences University, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She has received numerous awards for journalistic excellence.
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Andy Grove
Recognized as an engineering visionary and a humanitarian, Grove, PhD, was one of the founders of Intel Corporation in 1968. He has served in numerous roles at Intel, including president and chief executive officer, and now is chairman of the board of directors.
Grove holds several patents on semiconductor devices and technology, and is the author of more than 40 technical papers, five books and many newspaper and magazine articles.
He taught for six years at UC Berkeley and currently lectures at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Grove also participates in various community and nonprofit organizations. He served on the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
Grove is the national chair of the Campaign for UCSF, and serves on the executive committee for UCSF's Prostate Cancer Patient Advocate Program.
Grove contributed a $5 million matching grant to launch a major new developmental and stem cell biology program at UCSF in 2002.
The "Grove Stem Cell Challenge" fueled the new UCSF Stem Cell Discovery Fund, which funds basic studies in stem cell biology and their translation into clinical practice. The hope is that these studies could ultimately lead to treatments for such devastating diseases as diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Read more about that story
here.
Grove also serves as president of the Grove Foundation, a private philanthropic organization that provides scholarships and investments in education in Northern California.
Born in Hungary, Grove received his BS degree from the City College of New York (CCNY) and his PhD degree from UC Berkeley. He has received honorary degrees from CCNY, Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Harvard University.
Grove is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is the recipient of a long list of prestigious industry and corporate awards, among them having been named Time magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1997, and "The Most Influential Business Person in the Last 25 Years" in 2004 by the Wharton School of Business and the Nightly Business Report.
Maxine Singer
For nearly 50 years, Singer, PhD, president emerita of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC, has been a distinguished biochemist and writer. She is also widely recognized for her impact on science public policy. Her most recent research involved studies of human retrotransposons, which have broad significance for understanding the structure and history of the human genome and that are also active in causing genetic diseases.
Singer's research contributions have ranged over several areas of biochemistry and molecular biology, including chromatin structure, the evolution of defective viruses, and enzymes that work on DNA and RNA. These enzymes were the basis for her contributions to deciphering the genetic code in the early 1960s. She was an organizer of the 1975 Asilomar Meeting on Recombinant DNA Molecules, and was one of five signers of the subsequent report that drew up guidelines for recombinant DNA research.
Singer graduated from Swarthmore College and received her PhD degree in biochemistry from Yale University. She joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a postdoctoral fellow in 1956 and received a research staff appointment at the NIH two years later.
From 1980 to 1987, Singer was chief of the Laboratory of Biochemistry at the National Cancer Institute. From 1988 through 2002, she was president of the Carnegie Institution in Washington DC, leading biologists, astronomers, and earth scientists in six departments. While at Carnegie, Singer initiated an innovative program to teach science to elementary school students, as well as a summer science education academy for teachers. She chaired the editorial board of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences from 1985 to 1988.
Singer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, the American Philosophical Society and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Currently, she chairs the National Academies' Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy.
Among her honors and awards, Singer received the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award in 1988 and the National Medal of Science - the nation's highest scientific honor bestowed by the President of the United States - in 1992. She has also received honorary degrees from numerous colleges and universities.
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Rudi Schmid
UCSF Professor Emeritus Rudi Schmid, MD, PhD, is credited with transforming UCSF from a good health sciences campus to one of the world's great biomedical institutions.
Born in Switzerland, Schmid received his MD degree from the University of Zurich in 1947. After interning at UCSF and doing his residency at the University of Minnesota, he was a senior hematologist at the National Institutes of Health before joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1957, and at the University of Chicago in 1962.
Renowned for his pioneering work on the biochemistry of porphyria and on bilirubin metabolism, he was appointed professor and director of the Gastroenterology Unit at UCSF in 1966. Under Schmid's leadership, it became one of the country's leading research, educational and clinical gastroenterology and hepatology units, thereby contributing to the great success of the UCSF Department of Medicine.
From 1983 to 1989, as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine, Schmid fostered the continued growth of both basic and clinical sciences through a series of important appointments and wise allocation of resources. Upon stepping down as dean, he was appointed associate dean of International Relations in the schools of medicine and pharmacy.
Schmid remains an active participant in a program he founded to increase the international impact of UCSF and foster friendly working relationships by bringing trainees from China to UCSF. Read a story about the student exchange program
here.
Schmid is a member of numerous academies, including the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, German Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. He is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as president of several professional organizations, including the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, and has received a long list of national and international awards in recognition of outstanding achievements throughout his career.
Photo of Andy Grove by Michael Prince, all others by Pearson Communications
Source: Lisa Cisneros
