The University of California, San Francisco, UCSF for short, was founded in 1873 and is one of the ten campuses of the University of California and the only one dedicated solely to graduate studies. UCSF is a center of health sciences research, patient care, and education. UCSF is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading universities in health sciences.
Scientists considered working for organizations – even as prestigious as Bell – as a waste of talent and time until April 1976 when Robert Swanson recruited biochemist Herbert Boyer from the University of California, San Francisco for Genentech
