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The University of California, San Francisco ('''UCSF''') is one of the world's leading centers of Health Sciences research, Patient Care , and education. UCSF's Medical , Dental , Nursing , and Graduate School s are among the top health science Professional School s in the world. The UCSF Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top 10 hospitals in the United States . Patients from around the world with rare and difficult diseases are referred to UCSF for treatment. Some of UCSF's most renowned treatment centers include Kidney and Liver transplant, Neurosurgery , Neurology , Oncology , Gene Therapy , Women's Health , and Internal Medicine . UCSF also has the nation's leading HIV/AIDS treatment and research centers. UCSF Medical School is the only medical school in the country to rank in the top 5 for both "research" and "primary care." Founded in 1873 , the mission of UCSF is to serve as a "public university dedicated to saving lives and improving health." Though one of the ten campuses of the University Of California , it is unique for being the only University of California campus dedicated solely to graduate education, and this in health and Biomedical Science s. The single Undergraduate program provides students with a Bachelor Of Science degree in Dental Hygiene . UCSF has developed a reputation for unique interdisciplinary collaboration between the health science disciplines which has led to some of the most important discoveries in the biosciences. The graduate-focused environment of UCSF, its relatively small size, and its culture of collaboration allows for a flexibility to translate new discoveries into new treatments hard to find even at many of the world's other top medical centers. ACADEMICS University of California, San Francisco is unique in that it does biomedical and patient-centered research in its Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Dentistry and their hundreds of associated laboratories. The university is known for innovation in medical research, public service, and patient care. UCSF's faculty includes three Nobel Prize winners, 31 members of the National Academy Of Sciences , 69 members of the Institute Of Medicine , and 30 members of the Academy Of Arts And Sciences . In 1995, the National Research Council ranked UCSF in the top ten for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (1st), Genetics (2nd), Cell and Developmental Biology (3rd), Neurosciences (4th), Physiology (5th), and Biomedical Engineering (7th). Overall, the campus is fourth in the nation in annual NIH funding with $438.8 million (2004). UCSF's Schools of Dentistry, Nursing, and Pharmacy all are first in NIH funding among their peers, with $19.8 million, $14.6 million and $23.5 million, respectively. Its School of Medicine is third with $379.9 million. UCSF's Parnassus Campus facilities serve as the main campus and include the 600 bed UCSF Medical Center, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (one of the state's largest outpatient clinics), the Children's Hospital (located inside the center) and hundreds of research labs. The Mount Zion Campus contains UCSF's Comprehensive Cancer Center, Women's Health Center, and outpatient resources. The '''VA Hospital Campus''' is one of the leading Veterans Affairs research and treatment centers. The San Francisco General Hospital campus cares for the indigent population of San Francisco and site of UCSF's level-I trauma center. The earliest cases of HIV/AIDs were discovered at SF General Hospital in the 1980s. To this day SF General Hospital has the world's leading HIV/AIDs treatment and research center. UCSF's Mission Bay '''Campus''' is the largest ongoing biomedical construction project in the world. The 43-acre Mission Bay campus, recently opened in 2003 with construction still ongoing, contains additional research space and facilities to foster biotechnology and life sciences companies. It will double the size of UCSF's already mammoth research enterprise over the next 10 years. The Mission Bay campus currently contains the following facilities:
UCSF is also affiliated with the J. David Gladstone Institutes, a private biomedical research entity that has recently moved to a new building adjacent to UCSF's Mission Bay campus. The headquarters of the new California Institute For Regenerative Medicine are also located nearby in the Mission Bay neighborhood. DISTINCTIONS
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