click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry j. michael bishop – former ucsf chancellor. nobel laureate in medicine (1989), worked to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes elizabeth blackburn, professor of biology and physiology at ucsf, nobel laureate in medicine (2009), discoverer of the ribonucleoprotein enzyme, telomerase. appointed a member of the president's council on bioethics in 2001 and fired in february 2004, reportedly for her public disagreements and political differences with council chair leon kass and the bush administration, particularly on the issue of therapeutic cloning herbert boyer, national medal of science (1990) and shaw prize 2004, cofounder of genentech enoch callaway – psychiatrist, co-founder of the american college of neuropsychopharmacology and neurobiological technologies richard carmona – former surgeon general of the united states priscilla chan – pediatrician, spouse of facebook ceo mark zuckerberg john allen clements, first to isolate pulmonary surfactant and to develop it artificially terence coderre – professor of medicine and the harold griffith chair in anaesthesia research at mcgill university eric coleman is an american geriatrician and professor at the university of colorado. his research concerns care transitions. coleman was awarded a macarthur fellowship in 2012. lindsey a. criswell, rheumatologist and director of the national institute of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases. zubin damania, physician, comedian, internet personality, musician, and founder of turntable health haile t. debas, former ucsf chancellor; former dean, school of medicine; founding executive director, department of global health sciences joseph derisi biochemist, specializing in molecular biology, parasitology, genomics, virology, and computational biology. in 2004 was named a macarthur fellow, in 2008 was awarded the 14th annual heinz award for technology, the economy, and employment, in 2014 he received the john j. carty award for the advancement of science from the national academy of sciences, and in 2016 he was elected to the national academy of sciences michael v. drake – former university of california, irvine chancellor; former university of california vice president-health affairs; former president of ohio state university; current president of the university of california jennifer doudna – adjunct professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology, nobel laureate in chemistry (2020) laura j. esserman, surgeon and breast cancer oncology specialist, named in time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2016. paul ekman, who showed that human emotional expressions were universal and developed the facial action coding system richard feachem, founding executive director of the global fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria (2002–2007) courtney fitzhugh, physician and laboratory director at the national heart, lung, and blood institute diana e. forsythe, anthropologist noted for her work on artificial intelligence and medical informatics david e. garfin, biophysicist who has made significant contributions to electrophoresis in both the engineering and biology communities and to the aes electrophoresis society. julie gerberding – director, centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) stanton glantz, regarded as the ralph nader of the anti-big-tobacco movement joseph goldyne – m.d., fine artist, printmaker, painter, curator. jere e. goyan, former commissioner of the u.s. food and drug administration walter s. graf, cardiologist, pioneer in creation of emergency paramedic care system geoffrey c. gurtner, microsurgeon, researcher and medical academic victoria hale, both alumna and professor, founded the nonprofit pharmaceutical company the institute for oneworld health, 2006 macarthur fellow joseph gilbert hamilton, hamilton studied the medical effects of exposure to radioactive isotopes, which included the use of unsuspecting human subjects eva harris, professor in the school of public health at the university of california, berkeley, and the founder and president of the sustainable sciences institute. research efforts focused on combating diseases that primarily afflict people in developing nations; 1997 macarthur fellows program michael r. harrison – developed the initial techniques for fetal surgery and performed the first fetal surgery in 1981, and then went on to establish the ucsf fetal treatment center, which was the first of its kind in the united states griffith r. harsh – vice chair of the stanford department of neurosurgery and the director of the stanford brain tumor center. he is also the spouse of meg whitman. ira herskowitz, geneticist, noted for his work on cellular differentiation, 1987 macarthur fellows program julien hoffman – professor emeritus of pediatrics; senior member of the cardiovascular research institute dorothy m. horstmann (1911–2001), virologist who made important discoveries about polio. nola hylton, radiologist and pioneer in the use of breast mri janet iwasa, cell biologist and animator david julius – physiologist known for his work on molecular mechanisms underlying detection of thermal stimuli and natural products. received the 2010 shaw prize, 2017 gairdner award, 2020 breakthrough prize in life sciences, 2020 kavli prize in neuroscience, 2021 nobel prize in physiology or medicine. sarah h. kagan is an american gerontological nurse, and lucy walker honorary term professor of gerontological nursing at the university of pennsylvania. she is a macarthur fellow. yuet wai kan, lasker award (1991) and shaw prize (2004) selna kaplan – former professor of pediatrics; pediatric endocrinologist stuart kauffman is an american medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on earth. he was a professor the university of chicago, university of pennsylvania, and university of calgary. he has a number of awards including a macarthur fellowship and a wiener medal. uzma khanum, sister of pakistani politician imran khan. david kessler – former dean of the ucsf school of medicine and yale university school of medicine, and former commissioner of the food and drug administration in the clinton administration peter kollman – developer of the amber force field in molecular dynamics simulation and an internationally renowned computational chemist arthur lander, m.d. phd developmental biologist at university of california, irvine jeanne laberge, m.d., interventional radiologist marguerita lightfoot, professor of medicine and chief of prevention science, jay a. levy, who, along with robert gallo at the national cancer institute and luc montagnier at the pasteur institute, was among the first to identify and isolate hiv as the causative agent in aids richard locksley, medical doctor, professor and researcher of infectious diseases at the university of california, san francisco michael marletta is currently ch and annie li chair in the molecular biology of diseases at the university of california, berkeley. 1995 macarthur fellow. c. cameron macauley, photographer and film producer wendy max, professor of health economics michael merzenich, professor emeritus neuroscientist – brain plasticity research, basic and clinical sciences of hearing pioneer – ceo scientific learning, posit science dean ornish, who first established that coronary artery disease could be reversed with lifestyle changes alone, author of the few bestseller books on the subject of healthy lifestyle choices laura otis is an american historian of science, and professor of english, at emory university, 2000 macarthur fellows program ardem patapoutian, nobel prize laureate known for his work in characterizing the piezo1, piezo2, and trpm8 receptors william w. parmley – former editor of the journal of the american college of cardiology and general authority of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints stanley prusiner – nobel laureate in medicine (1997), discovered and described prions shuvo roy, inventor of artificial kidney william seeley, alumni, neurology professor at ucsfv, where he leads the selective vulnerability research lab. he is a 2011 macarthur fellow. steve schroeder – former ceo, robert wood johnson foundation michelle tam, creator of nom nom paleo and james beard foundation award nominated cookbook author, blogger, and food writer julie theriot, microbiologist, professor at the stanford university school of medicine, and heads the theriot lab. she was a predoctoral fellow, and investigator at the howard hughes medical institute, 2004 macarthur fellows program thea tlsty, professor of pathology, known for her research in cancer biology kay tye – neuroscientist harold varmus – nobel laureate in medicine (1989), worked with j. michael bishop to discover the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. also served as director of the national institutes of health during the clinton administration, as president of memorial sloan-kettering cancer center from 2000 to 2010, and currently as the director of the national cancer institute. paul volberding, whose pioneering work in the early days of the aids pandemic was noted in randy shilts' book and the band played on robert m. wachter, a prominent expert in patient safety, who coined the term hospitalist and is considered the academic leader of the field of hospital medicine. wachter is now chair of ucsf's department of medicine. peter walter molecular biologist and biochemist, shaw prize (2014) and lasker award (2014) ted wong – united states army major general, chief of the u.s. army dental corps (2011–2014) ron vale molecular motors particularly on kinesin and dynein, he has received the lasker award (2012) and the shaw prize (2017)- pablo dt valenzuela – co-founder of the american biotech company chiron corporation, the first chilean biotech company bios chile, and of fundacion ciencia para la vida in santiago chile. v. sasisekharan, proposed an alternate model for the watson-crick double helix kimberly tanner, professor at san francisco state university eric m. verdin, fifth president and chief executive officer of the buck institute for research on aging george whipple, nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1934 for discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia. rachel wilson, professor of neurobiology at harvard medical school, 2008 macarthur fellow shinya yamanaka, who developed for reprogramming adult cells to pluripotential precursors, thus circumventing an approach in which embryos would be destroyed. yamanaka won shaw prize in 2008 and the nobel prize for medicine in 2012. keith yamamoto, ucsf's first vice chancellor for science policy and strategy and director of ucsf precision medicine; the leading researcher investigating transcriptional regulation by nuclear receptors. footnotes jennifer doudna, david julius, shinya yamanaka, elizabeth blackburn, j. michael bishop, harold varmus, george whipple