85 Notable alumni of University of California – San Francisco
Updated: June 23, 2026 EliteDegrees
University of California – San Francisco is ranked #42 in the world and #32 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 85 notable alumni from University of California – San Francisco sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with University of California – San Francisco won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Sheue-yann Cheng
1939-. (aged 87)
cancer researcher
geneticist
pharmaceutical chemist
molecular biologist
Sheue-yann Cheng is a Taiwanese-American molecular geneticist who pioneered the development of mouse models to understand the molecular basis of diseases due to mutations of thyroid hormone receptors. Cheng is a senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute and chief of the gene regulation section.
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2. Judith Fradkin
scientist
Judith E. Fradkin is an American physician-scientist. She was the director of the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolic Diseases at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases from 2000 to 2018.
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3. Barbara Brannon
military leader
Barbara Brannon is a retired major general in the United States Air Force who served as head of the Air Force Nurse Corps.
4. Frank Gotch
1926-2017 (aged 91)
physician
Frank A. Gotch was an American physician known for his work in renal dialysis adequacy, specifically the development of Kt/V and standardized Kt/V. He was an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
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5. Rudi Schmid
1922-2007 (aged 85)
hepatologist
Rudi Schmid was a Swiss-born American medical researcher specializing in hepatology. Among his contributions to biomedical science, Schmid led a team to discover heme oxygenase.
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6. Shirley Chater
1932-. (aged 94)
nurse
Shirley Sears Chater is an American nurse, educational administrator and government official who served as the 12th commissioner of the Social Security Administration from 1993 until 1997. In the 1970s and 1980s, Chater held faculty appointments in nursing and education at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively. She worked as an administrator...
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7. Lucy Wanzer
1841-1930 (aged 89)
physician
teacher
obstetrician
Lucy Maria Field Wanzer was the first woman to be admitted to and graduate from an American medical school west of the Rocky Mountains.
8. William J. Schwartz
1950-. (aged 76)
university teacher
neurologist
William Joseph Schwartz is an American neurologist and scientist who serves as Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Education in the neurology department at the University of Texas Dell Medical School. His work on the neurobiology of circadian timekeeping has focused on the mammalian suprachiasmatic nucleus. Schwartz demonstrated that the suprachiasmatic nucleus is rhythmic in vivo using a 2-deoxyglucose...
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9. Kevin Lustig
1963-. (aged 63)
scientist
Kevin Donald Lustig is an American scientist and entrepreneur and founder of three life science companies: the pharmaceutical company Kalypsys in 2001; the online research marketplace Scientist.com (formerly Assay Depot) in 2007; and the non-profit lab incubator Bio, Tech and Beyond in 2013.
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10. Jeanne Quint Benoliel
1919-2012 (aged 93)
nurse
scientist
Jeanne Quint Benoliel was an American nurse who studied the role of nursing in end-of-life settings. She founded the Ph.D. program at the University of Washington School of Nursing. She was designated a Living Legend of the American Academy of Nursing.
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11. Jane Harding
1955-. (aged 71)
researcher
Dame Jane Elizabeth Harding is a New Zealand academic new-born intensive case specialist (neonatologist). She was awarded the Rutherford Medal in 2019. Harding has been the president of the New Zealand national academy of sciences, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, since July 2024.
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12. Kristine Yaffe
scientist
physician
Kristine Yaffe is an American cognitive decline and dementia researcher. She is the Scola Endowed Chair and Vice Chair and Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology and the Director of the Center for Population Brain Health at the University of California, San Francisco. In 2019, Yaffe was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
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13. Anne B. Young
1947-. (aged 79)
neuroscientist
Anne Buckingham Young is an American physician and neuroscientist who has made major contributions to the study of neurodegenerative diseases, with a focus on movement disorders like Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease. Young completed her undergraduate studies at Vassar College and earned a dual MD/PhD from Johns Hopkins Medical School. She has held faculty positions at University of Michigan and...
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14. William Seeley
1971-. (aged 55)
neuroscientist
neurologist
William W. Seeley is an American neurologist. He is a Professor of Neurology and Pathology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He leads the Selective Vulnerability Research Lab at UCSF. He is a 2011 MacArthur Fellow.
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15. Jodi Nunnari
biologist
Jodi Nunnari is an American cell biologist and pioneer in the field of mitochondrial biology. She is currently a founding principal investigator at the biotechnology company Altos Labs, and director of its Bay Area Institute of Science. She is a distinguished professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of California, Davis...
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16. Christopher deCharms
1966-. (aged 60)
neuroscientist
Dr. Christopher deCharms is a neuroscientist, author, and inventor. Currently, deCharms is the founder and CEO of Brainful, a life-sciences companies focused on neurotechnology, including technology based on imaging methods that allow people to watch the activation of their own brains 'live' using functional magnetic resonance imaging.
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17. Bik-Kwoon Tye
1947-. (aged 79)
researcher
molecular biologist
Bik Kwoon Yeung Tye is a Chinese-American molecular geneticist and structural biologist. Tye's pioneering work on eukaryotic DNA replication led to the discovery of the minichromosome maintenance (MCM) genes in 1984, which encode the catalytic core of the eukaryotic replisome. Tye also determined the first high-resolution structures of both the MCM complex and the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) in 2015...
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18. Tim Stearns
1961-. (aged 65)
academic
geneticist
molecular biologist
university teacher
Tim Stearns is an American scientist and university administrator. He is the Dean of Graduate and Postgraduate Studies, Vice President of Education, and Head of the Laboratory of Cellular Dynamics at The Rockefeller University. Stearns was formerly the Frank Lee and Carol Hall Professor in the Department of Biology at Stanford University, with appointments in the Department of Genetics and...
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19. Keith Yamamoto
1946-. (aged 80)
biochemist
Keith R. Yamamoto is vice chancellor of science policy and strategy and professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at the University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF). He also holds the position of director of UCSF Precision Medicine. He is known for his molecular biology and biochemistry research on nuclear receptors and his involvement in science policy and precision medicine.
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20. Leslie Z. Benet
1937-. (aged 89)
researcher
pharmacologist
pharmacist
Leslie 'Les' Zachary Benet is an influential pharmaceutical scientist heading the UCSF's Benet Lab at the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences and recipient of the Remington Medal for distinguished service to American pharmacy.
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21. Rong Li
1967-. (aged 59)
scientist
Rong Li is the Director of Mechanobiology Institute, a Singapore Research Center of Excellence, at the National University of Singapore. She is a Distinguished Professor at the National University of Singapore's Department of Biological Sciences and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Whiting School of Engineering. She...
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22. Tejal A. Desai
1972-. (aged 54)
researcher
Tejal Ashwin Desai is Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, she was the Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the Health Innovations via Engineering Initiative (HIVE), and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. She was formerly an associate...
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23. Mary Katharine Brandegee
1844-1920 (aged 76)
botanical collector
scientific collector
editor
botanist
Mary Katharine Brandegee was an American botanist known for her comprehensive studies of flora in California.
24. Julie Theriot
1967-. (aged 59)
microbiologist
researcher
Julie A. Theriot is a cell biologist, who studies the molecular mechanics and dynamics of cell movement and organization. Her work spans many fields from microbiology to biophysics, and lab studies eukaryotic cell motility as well as the hijacking of the cytoskeleton by intracellular parasites like listeria. She has also published work that describes the mechanisms of Galvanotaxis in vertebrate...
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25. Barry S. Fogel
1952-. (aged 74)
neuroscientist
psychiatrist
neurologist
Barry S. Fogel is an American neuropsychiatrist, behavioral neurologist, medical writer, medical educator and inventor. He is the senior author of a standard text in neuropsychiatry and medical psychiatry, and a founder of the American Neuropsychiatric Association and the International Neuropsychiatric Association.
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26. Laura Stachel
physician
Laura Stachel is a former medical doctor who founded and leads We Care Solar, a nonprofit that manufactures and deploys solar electric systems the size of a suitcase for use in medical clinics in the developing world. She is also the mother of actor and singer Ari'el Stachel.
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27. Seth M. Holmes
1975-. (aged 51)
anthropologist
university teacher
cultural anthropologist
physician
Seth M. Holmes is Chancellor's Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and Medical Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. He also serves as founder and co-chair (with Charles L. Briggs) of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, co-director (with Ian Whitmarsh) of the MD/Ph.D. Track in Medical Anthropology coordinated between UC Berkeley and UCSF. Currently, he is an...
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28. Stuart A. Aaronson
1942-. (aged 84)
university teacher
oncologist
Stuart A. Aaronson is an American author and cancer biologist. He was the Jane B. and Jack R. Aron Professor of Neoplastic Diseases and Chairman of Oncological Sciences at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York.
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29. Ramanujan Shankar Hegde
1971-. (aged 55)
biochemist
Ramanujan Shankar Hegde FRS is a group leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).Since 2019 he has led the LMB's Cell Biology Division.
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30. M. Ted Wong
dentist
Ming T. "Ted" Wong is a retired major general and dentist in the United States Army. He was Chief of the US Army Dental Corps from 2010 until his retirement in 2014 and variously served as Commander for the Western Regional Medical Command, the North Atlantic Regional Dental Command, the Southern Regional Medical Command, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, the...
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31. Douglas Girod
1958-. (aged 68)
Douglas Allan Girod is an American educator, medical doctor, and the 18th chancellor of the University of Kansas. Prior to becoming chancellor, he was the University of Kansas Medical Center's executive vice chancellor, a position he had held since February 2013. Before being promoted to the executive vice chancellor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Girod was the senior...
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32. Robert Malenka
1955-. (aged 71)
researcher
Robert C. Malenka is a Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the director of the Nancy Friend Pritzker Laboratory in the Stanford Medical Center. He is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Malenka's laboratory research with...
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33. David Poeppel
1964-. (aged 62)
psychologist
David E. Poeppel is Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University (NYU). From 2014 until the end of 2021, he was the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA). In 2019, he co-founded the Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME) an international joint research center, co-sponsored by the Max...
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34. Virginia Man-Yee Lee
1945-. (aged 81)
academic
pathologist
Virginia Man-Yee Lee is a Chinese-born American biochemist and neuroscientist who specializes in the research of Alzheimer's disease. She is the current John H. Ware 3rd Endowed Professor in Alzheimer's Research at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and the director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and co-director of the Marian S. Ware Alzheimer Drug Discovery Program...
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35. Rita Ng
1978-. (aged 48)
physician
cardiologist
beauty pageant contestant
Rita Ng from Tracy, California is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss California 2000 and is currently a practicing cardiologist. Ng was the first person of Asian descent to be crowned Miss California.
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36. John Shine
1946-. (aged 80)
biochemist
molecular biologist
geneticist
John Shine AC FRS FAA is an Australian biochemist and molecular biologist. Shine and Lynn Dalgarno discovered a nucleotide sequence, called the Shine–Dalgarno sequence, necessary for the initiation of protein synthesis. He directed the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney from 1990 to 2011. From 2018 to 2022, Shine was President of the Australian Academy of Science.
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37. Stafford L. Warren
1896-1981 (aged 85)
physician
radiologist
Stafford Leak Warren was an American physician and radiologist who was a pioneer in the field of nuclear medicine and best known for his invention of the mammogram. Warren developed the technique of producing stereoscopic images of the breast with X-rays while working in the Department of Radiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine.
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38. Charles Sawyers
1959-. (aged 67)
university teacher
oncologist
physician
Charles L. Sawyers is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator who holds the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Chair of the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program (HOPP) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK). HOPP is a program created in 2006 that comprises researchers from many disciplines to bridge clinical and laboratory discoveries.
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39. Titia de Lange
1955-. (aged 71)
geneticist
university teacher
Titia de Lange is the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research, the Leon Hess professor and the head of Laboratory Cell Biology and Genetics at Rockefeller University.
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40. Kay Tye
1981-. (aged 45)
neuroscientist
researcher
Kay M. Tye is an American neuroscientist and professor and Wylie Vale Chair in the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. Her research has focused on using optogenetics to identify connections in the brain that are involved in innate emotion, motivation and social behaviors.
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41. Eric Goosby
1953-. (aged 73)
physician
HIV/AIDS activist
Eric Goosby is an American public health official, currently serving as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics, Institute for Global Health Sciences at University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Goosby previously served as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis as well as previously served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator...
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42. William Ralph Brody
1944-. (aged 82)
scientist
radiologist
William Ralph Brody is an American radiologist and academic administrator. He was the President of The Johns Hopkins University, a position which he held from 1996 to 2009 before becoming the President of the Salk Institute from 2009 to 2015.
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43. Robert M. Wachter
1957-. (aged 69)
physician
scientist
academic
Robert M. "Bob" Wachter is an academic physician and author. He is on the faculty of University of California, San Francisco, where he is chairman of the Department of Medicine, the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine, and the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine. He is generally regarded as the academic leader of the...
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44. Ethan Canin
1960-. (aged 66)
novelist
screenwriter
writer
Ethan Andrew Canin is an American author, educator, and physician. He is a member of the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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45. Thomas R. Insel
1951-. (aged 75)
researcher
neuroscientist
psychiatrist
Thomas Roland Insel is an American neuroscientist, psychiatrist, entrepreneur, and author who led the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002 until November 2015. Prior to becoming Director of NIMH, he was the founding Director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for research on oxytocin and vasopressin, two peptide...
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46. Andrea Gamarnik
1964-. (aged 62)
researcher
biochemist
virologist
Andrea Gamarnik is an Argentine molecular virologist noted for her work on Dengue fever. She received a 2016 L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science fellowship for work on mosquito-borne viruses, including Dengue fever. She also was granted the Konex Award Merit Diploma in 2013 and the Platinum Konex Award in 2023 for her work in those last decades. She studied...
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47. Pablo DT Valenzuela
1941-. (aged 85)
businessperson
biochemist
Pablo Valenzuela is a Chilean biochemist dedicated to biotechnology development. He is known for his genetic studies of hepatitis viruses; participated as a research and development director in the discovery of hepatitis C virus and the invention of the world's first recombinant vaccine (against hepatitis B virus). He is one of the cofounders of the biotechnology company Chiron Corporation and...
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48. Julie Gerberding
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
physician
Julie Louise Gerberding is an American infectious disease expert who was the first woman to serve as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of May 2022, she is the CEO of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). Gerberding grew up in Estelline, South Dakota, attended Brookings High School, and earned...
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49. Alfredo Quińones- Hinojosa
1968-. (aged 58)
university teacher
surgeon
neurosurgeon
oncologist
neuroscientist
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa is a Mexican-American neurosurgeon, author, and researcher. Currently, he is the William J. and Charles H. Mayo Professor and Chair of Neurologic Surgery and runs a basic science research lab at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville in Florida.
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50. Michael V. Drake
1951-. (aged 75)
academic administrator
ophthalmologist
Michael Vincent Drake is an American physician. He served as the 21st president of the University of California from August 2020 to August 2025, as the 15th president of Ohio State University from 2014 to 2020, and as the 5th chancellor of the University of California, Irvine from 2005 to 2014.
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51. Richard Carmona
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
nurse
paramedic
surgeon
Richard Henry Carmona is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his...
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52. Andrew Baldwin
1977-. (aged 49)
reality television participant
model
surgeon
biologist
military officer
Andrew James Baldwin is a U.S. Navy officer, ironman triathlete, television personality, humanitarian, and physician. He appeared on the 10th season of the reality dating show The Bachelor. He is currently married with one son.
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53. Stuart Kauffman
1939-. (aged 87)
university teacher
biophysicist
biologist
Stuart Alan Kauffman is an American medical doctor, theoretical biologist, and complex systems researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Calgary. He is currently emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Systems Biology. He...
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54. Stanley B. Prusiner
1942-. (aged 84)
virologist
university teacher
neurologist
biochemist
physician
Stanley Ben Prusiner is an American neurologist and biochemist. He is the director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Prusiner discovered prions, a class of infectious self-reproducing pathogens primarily or solely composed of protein, a scientific theory considered by many as a heretical idea when first proposed. He received the Albert Lasker...
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55. Jack O'Neill
1923-2017 (aged 94)
surfer
entrepreneur
environmentalist
Jack O'Neill was an American businessman and founder of the surfwear and surfboard company O'Neill.
56. David Baker
1962-. (aged 64)
biochemistry teacher
university teacher
bioinformatician
computational biologist
biochemist
David Baker is an American biochemist and computational biologist who has pioneered methods to design proteins and predict their three-dimensional structures. He is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He...
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57. David Julius
1955-. (aged 71)
university teacher
biochemist
physiologist
David Jay Julius is an American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain sensation and heat, including the characterization of the TRPV1 and TRPM8 receptors that detect capsaicin, menthol, and temperature. He is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco.
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58. Alexander Shulgin
1925-2014 (aged 89)
pharmacologist
writer
chemist
biochemist
pharmacist
Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin was an American biochemist, broad researcher of synthetic psychoactive compounds, and author of works regarding these, who independently explored the organic chemistry and pharmacology of such agents—in his mid-life and later, many through preparation in his home laboratory, and testing on himself. He is acknowledged to have introduced to broader use, in the late 1970s, the...
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59. Anne F. Luetkemeyer
infectious disease physician
Annie F. Luetkemeyer is an American physician and researcher who is Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. She specializes in infectious diseases, in particular tuberculosis, human immunodeficiency virus and viral hepatitis. During the COVID-19 pandemic Luetkemeyer led a clinical trial of remdesivir. She has also researched treatment of COVID-19 as a co-infection with...
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60. Tess Gerritsen
1953-. (aged 73)
essayist
novelist
writer
physician
television writer
Terry "Tess" Gerritsen is an American novelist and retired general physician.
61. Dacher Keltner
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
psychologist
Dacher Joseph Keltner is a Mexican-born American professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab.
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62. Beulah Ream Allen
1897-1989 (aged 92)
nurse
physician
Beulah Ream Allen was an American nurse, physician, and civilian physician during World War II. After graduating with a nursing degree in 1922, she worked as a supervising nurse and headed the educational department for the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City. She worked as a hospital inspector for the state of Utah until 1928, when she moved to San...
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63. Harold E. Varmus
1939-. (aged 87)
university teacher
virologist
Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.
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64. Mary-Claire King
1946-. (aged 80)
human rights defender
geneticist
biologist
university teacher
Mary-Claire King is an American geneticist. She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1. She studies human genetics and is particularly interested in genetic heterogeneity and complex traits. She studies the interaction of genetics and environmental influences and their effects on human conditions such as breast and...
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65. Zoé Samudzi
writer
Zoé Samudzi is an American writer and activist known for her co-authored book As Black as Resistance. Samudzi has written for The New Inquiry, The Daily Beast and Vice magazine. Samudzi was a 2017 Public Imagination Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Department of African-American and Africana Studies at...
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66. Susan Desmond-Hellmann
1958-. (aged 68)
chief executive officer
Sue Desmond-Hellmann is an American oncologist and biotechnology leader who was the chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2014 to 2020. In March 2024, she was elected as a board member of OpenAI. She was previously Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the first woman to hold the position, and Arthur and...
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67. Don W. Cleveland
1950-. (aged 76)
chemist
researcher
neurobiologist
Don W. Cleveland is an American cancer biologist and neurobiologist.
68. Adam Gazzaley
1968-. (aged 58)
researcher
neurologist
Adam Gazzaley is an American neuroscientist, author, photographer, entrepreneur and inventor. He is the founder and executive director of Neuroscape and the David Dolby Distinguished Professor of Neurology, Physiology, and Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is co-founder and chief science advisor of Akili Interactive Labs and JAZZ Venture Partners. Gazzaley is the inventor of the first...
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69. Michael Marletta
1951-. (aged 75)
biochemist
researcher
Michael A. Marletta is an American biochemist. He was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Italian immigrants. He graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia in 1973 with an A.B. degree in biology and chemistry, and from the University of California, San Francisco in 1978 with a Ph.D. degree in pharmaceutical chemistry, where he studied...
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70. Edith Claypole
1870-1915 (aged 45)
physician
pathologist
physiologist
Edith Jane Claypole was an English-American physiologist and pathologist.
71. Douglas Koshland
1953-. (aged 73)
biochemist
Douglas E. Koshland is a professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
72. J. Michael Bishop
1936-. (aged 90)
virologist
chemist
microbiologist
university teacher
biologist
John Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Harold E. Varmus. He serves as an active faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also served as chancellor from 1998 to 2009.
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73. Jim Warren
1936-2021 (aged 85)
computer scientist
businessperson
Jim C. Warren Jr. was an American computer professional, editor, and activist.
74. Michael A. Klaper
1947-. (aged 79)
documentary participant
physician
Michael A. Klaper is an American physician, vegan health educator, conference and event speaker, and an author of articles and books of vegan medical advice. Graduating from medical school in 1972, Klaper became a vegan ten years later and subsequently became active in the area, publishing three books advocating veganism and serving as a founding director of the Institute of...
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75. Nevan Krogan
biologist
Nevan J. Krogan is a Canadian molecular and systems biologist. He is a professor and the director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), as well as a senior investigator at the J. David Gladstone Institutes.
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76. Shen Fu-hsiung
1939-. (aged 87)
politician
physician
Shen Fu-hsiung is a Taiwanese physician, nephrologist, and politician.
77. Hiroko Minami
1942-. (aged 84)
nurse
nurse scientist
Hiroko Minami, is a Japanese Nurse leader and educator. She has been working to advance nursing in Japan, including education, service, and research for more than 30 years.
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78. Shinya Yamanaka
1962-. (aged 64)
biologist
physicist
university teacher
researcher
surgeon
Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as well as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California and a professor of anatomy at University of California, San...
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79. Ashutosh Tewari
1960-. (aged 66)
researcher
urologist
surgeon
Ashutosh K. Tewari is an Indian-American urologist and scientist specializing in prostate cancer. He is the surgeon-in-chief at the Tisch Cancer Hospital and chairman of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Tewari is a world-leading urological surgeon, and has performed over 10,000 robotically assisted procedures using the da Vinci Surgical System....
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80. Priscilla Chan
1985-. (aged 41)
pediatrician
Priscilla Chan Wai Han is a Hong Kong singer. She is renowned for her contralto singing voice and her maturely clear, technically skilled, and emotion-rich vocals.
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81. Sonia Y. Angell
Sonia Yris Angell is an American public health figure. She is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of the Practice of American Health in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Angell also maintains a clinical professorship of medicine in the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2020, after resigning as director of...
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82. Mai al-Kaila
1955-. (aged 71)
gynecologist
university teacher
politician
diplomat
nurse
Mai Salem Hanna al-Kaila is a Palestinian physician, diplomat and politician, and the first woman to hold the position of Minister of Health. She holds a PhD in public health and health administration. She chaired the Palestinian Medical Council in her capacity as health minister. She is also part of the Palestinian Authority headed by current prime minister Dr. Mohammad...
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83. Oscar Gonzalez-Perez
neuroscientist
researcher
Oscar Gonzalez-Perez is professor of neuroscience in the School of Psychology at the University of Colima, Mexico. He has been honorary professor of neuroscience in the Doctorado en Ciencias Biomedicas at the University of Guadalajara and invited professor of neuroscience and cellular medicine in the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory of Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine....
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84. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
epidemiologist
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco...
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85. Elizabeth Blackburn
1948-. (aged 78)
biologist
biochemist
molecular biologist
university teacher
Elizabeth Helen Blackburn is an Australian–American Nobel laureate who is the former president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. In 1984, Blackburn co-discovered telomerase, the enzyme that replenishes the telomere, with Carol W. Greider. For this work, she was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, sharing it with Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak, becoming...
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