The first-year course of the School of Medicine returns from Berkeley to San Francisco, reuniting the entire medical school. This includes the basic sciences: anatomy, biochemistry and physiology. At the same time, the medical school class increases from 80 to 100, enrollment almost doubles, and there is an increase in the quality and quantity of the UCSF clinical faculty.

Construction begins on the Medical Sciences building. The following year, construction begins on Moffitt Hospital. When completed (Medical Sciences in 1958, Moffitt in 1965), they will comprise the largest and most modern health sciences teaching facilities on the West Coast.

The CVRI becomes an interdisciplinary research institute under Julius H. Comroe Jr., who comes from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. CVRI becomes an Organized Researched Unit in 1958, with completion of its quarters on the 13th floor of Moffitt. The Biomechanics Laboratory is established as an Organized Research Unit, although research on lower extremity prosthetics had started in 1945.

Helen Nahm becomes dean of the School of Nursing and consolidates the school on one campus. Under her leadership several innovative programs are introduced, including an undergraduate program leading to a baccalaureate degree, an expanded clinical specialty program with a master of science degree, and a doctor of nursing science degree in 1965--the first in the country.

John B. de C.M. Saunders becomes the first provost of the campus and in 1964 the first chancellor. During his tenure, Saunders was seen as a powerful moving force in establishing the campus as a strong health sciences center. He was known by many as a true Renaissance man--one who could achieve distinction in pure science while retaining the breadth of humanistic scholarship. Saunders understood and supported the behavioral and social sciences on campus and was responsible for developing programs that cut across disciplines in the four professional schools and departments. Born in South Africa, Saunders came to UCSF from the University of Edinburgh in 1931 as assistant professor of anatomy, then became professor and chairman, 1938 to 1956, and dean of the School of Medicine, 1955 to 1963.

The Guy S. Millberry Union is completed with the help of George Steninger, graduate of the School of Dentistry, '25, who combined the savings from "the Coop," the bookstore and funds from the dental faculty and alumni to make it possible.

The Graduate Division starts under Dean Harold Harper; William O. Reinhardt becomes dean of the School of Medicine in 1963; Ben Pavone becomes dean of the School of Dentistry in 1965.

School of Dentistry starts its mobile clinics program.

The School of Pharmacy initiates an innovative program to test the use of the clinically skilled pharmacist in a patient care area--the first in the U.S. From this comes the development of the clinical pharmacy program.

Stuart C. Cullen becomes dean of the School of Medicine.

The Health Sciences Instruction and Research buildings (HSW and HSE) are constructed.

Willard C. Fleming becomes the second chancellor of the campus--one of the few dentists to become head of a health sciences center. A 1923 graduate of the UCSF School of Dentistry, Fleming was regarded as one of the country's outstanding leaders in dental education. He was president of virtually every major national dental education society, including the American College of Dentistry and the American Association of Dental Schools. He became dean in 1939. Under his 26 years of leadership as dean, the school saw tremendous growth and achieved national recognition. He became vice provost in 1958 and vice chancellor in 1964. As chancellor, Fleming was responsible for establishing the first formal affirmative action program for the schools. A man with great personal warmth, he was always a leader. As president of the class of 1923, he was involved with the building of the cafeteria called "the Coop." He also was instrumental in the building of the Millberry Union. Fleming retired in 1969 and died in 1972.

The Hormone Research Laboratory, founded on the Berkeley campus in 1950, with C.H. Li named director in 1954, moves to UCSF. Li's research includes isolation of the human growth hormone and the complete identification of its chemical structure. He also synthesizes part of the ACTH molecule.

Jere E. Goyan becomes dean of the School of Pharmacy. He takes a 16-month leave of absence in 1979 to head the Food and Drug Administration.

The School of Nursing starts a Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences--the first at a health sciences campus anywhere.

Philip R. Lee becomes the third chancellor of the campus. Lee came to UCSF from his post as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs, HEW. He also is given a title unique in the UC system, Professor of Social Medicine, because of his national and international background in health policy. Lee remains chancellor in 1972, when he starts UCSF's Health Policy Program--the first of its kind in the U.S., now emulated by many institutions across the country as a legitimate study in the health sciences. Under his leadership, the program becomes an Organized Research Unit in 1981, when it is renamed the Institute for Health Policy Studies. A man of strong convictions and high principles, Lee is committed to equal access to quality health care. He has been a national spokesman for health matters for a number of years.

The campus is renamed the "University of California, San Francisco" and becomes the only health sciences campus in UC's nine-campus system.

Julius R. Krevans becomes dean of the School of Medicine.

Francis A. Sooy becomes the fourth chancellor of the campus.

Biochemist Hebert Boyer, together with Stanford colleague Stanley Cohen, revolutionize biology by inventing recombinant DNA, making possible manufacture of such artificial substances as growth hormone and insulin.

Virologists Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus discover that cancer-causing genes initially found in viruses are also found in humans, a major advance in understanding cancer.

Yuet Wai Kan pioneers molecular techniques that allow the first fetal test to identify sickle cell anemia, a hereditary blood disease that affects blacks.

Using techniques from studying lambs in the womb, Drs. Abraham Rudolph and Migheal Heymana perfect a drug therapy to fix a common heart defect in premature infants.

John Baxter and Howard Goodman are the first to clone the gene for human growth hormone, which becomes the second genetically engineered product to receive government approval.

Pediatric surgeon Micheal Harrison performs the first in utero surgical procedure to correct a urinary tract defect and is the first to partially remove the fetus and return it to the womb after surgery.

Urologists led by Emil Tanagho develop the first bladder pacemaker, an implantable device for people who have suffered paralysis and other dysfunctions.

Biochemist William Rutter and his Emeryville Chiron Corp. produce the first genetically engineered vaccine against hepatitis b to be put on the market.

UCSF establishes the first outpatient and inpatient AIDS programs, first warns that blood transfusions can transmit the disease, and collaborates in the first successful attempts to copy the AIDS virus for research.

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