The cell membrane is made up of a phospholipid bilayer, or fat. Soap attracts fats and greases, and so is able to dissolve the cell membrane.
As the chief executive officer of the UT System, Chancellor McRaven oversees 14 institutions that educate 221,000 students and employ 20,000 faculty and more than 80,000 health care professionals, researchers and staff.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann Named UCSF Chancellor May 07, 2009 News Office: Peter King (510) 987-0279 Susan Desmond-Hellmann, a physician, pioneering cancer researcher and biotechnology industry executive who most recently served as president of product development for Genentech, has been named chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco campus by the University of California Board of Regents.