How did this "good regional school" evolve into a high-ranking basic research institution? What seemed to be graceful transition to outsiders actually involved drastic shifts in University leadership in the 1960s, followed by key recruitments in clinical departments and basic sciences, and the flowering of basic research at Parnassus.
Administration:
Deans (Medicine): John Saunders (1954-1956); William. O. Reinhardt, (1956-1966); Stuart Cullen, (1966-1971); Julius Krevans, (1971-1983); Rudi Schmid (1983-1989).
Deans (Nursing): Helen Nahm (1959-1969); Marjorie Dunlap (1969-1976); Margretta Styles (1977-1987).
Deans (Dentistry): Ben W. Pavone (1965-1980); John C. Greene (1981-1994).
Deans (Pharmacy): Troy C. Daniels (1955-1966); Jere E. Goyan (1967-1992).
Chancellors: John Saunders (1964-1966); Willard Fleming (1967-1969); Phil Lee, (1969-1972); Francis Sooy (1972-1983); Julius Krevans (1983 ff.)
Construction:
1959: Millberry union
1960: Aldea San Miguel Apartments
1966-67: Health Sciences Instruction and Research Buildings (the towers)
1973: Ambulatory Care Center
1975: School of Nursing
1976ff: UCSF administration agrees to limit growth at Parnassus in response to community protests
1979: School of Dentistry Building
1983: Joseph M. Long Hospital opens
1984: Moffitt Hospital remodeled
1988: Beckman Vision Center and Koret Vision Research Lab
1988: Construction begins on new campus library
Research and patient care achievements:
- UCSF colleagues isolate the gene for insulin
- Cochlear implant
- Lung surfactant
- Hepatitis B vaccine
- Isolation of the AIDS virus
- Human growth hormone
- Invention of marketable Magnetic Resonance Imaging at UCSF's Radiological Imaging Lab
- Development of vascular surgery
- Development of trauma service at SFGH
1973-74: Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen develop recombinant DNA techniques.
1976: J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus discover oncogenes.
1976: Founding of Genentech; beginning of the biotechnology industry in the Bay Area.
1980: The school of Dentistry occupies it extensive new building designed expressly for teaching and clinics at the west end of campus. John Greene becomes dean in 1981.
1983: Recognition of the AIDS epidemic: Outpatient AIDS clinic and inpatient ward at SFGH.
1984: The School of Nursing offers a UCSF Ph.D. program in nursing. The 1997 Gorman Report ranked the school of Nursing first among graduate programs in nursing. 1989: Jane Norbeck becomes dean of the School of Nursing.
1985: The Aging Health Policy Center becomes the Institute for Health and Aging, Nursing's first Organized Research Unit.
1985: PIBS, The Program in Biological Sciences is created by a group of faculty representing the basic science departments; began as a consortium of four existing interdepartmental graduate programs (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics and Neurosciences; funded by a 13.5 million grant from the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust.
1987: Science Education Partnership with San Francisco public schools begins.
1987: The School of Pharmacy consistently ranks number one among fifty-eight institutions in the nation in research awards from the National Institutes of Health.
1988: The First liver transplant at UCSF is performed by Nancy Ascher and colleagues. By this time the kidney transplant program has performed its 3,000th procedure.
1989: J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus win the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on the oncogene.
