November • 2008

inside this issue

research in action:

working for the people of california

This special report highlights UC's solar energy research.

UC currently holds 3,546 active U.S. patents.
One in six public biotechnology companies nationally - and one in three in California - were founded by a UC scientist.
Among the top-earning commercialized UC inventions are the nicotine patch and the hepatitis B vaccine.

J. Michael Bishop

UC San Francisco chancellor to step down

J. Michael Bishop, a Nobel Prize-winning cancer researcher who has served 10 years as UC San Francisco chancellor, will resign from his post effective June 30.

Bishop, 72, will continue to serve as a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and as director of the G. W. Hooper Foundation, a UCSF biomedical research unit. He joined the UCSF faculty in 1968 and was appointed chancellor in 1998.

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