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field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Department of Anatomy includes 19 faculty members with primary full-time appointments, 15 faculty with joint appointments, and about 200 postdoctoral fellows and students engaged in research that covers questions in cell biology, developmental biology and the neurosciences. Faculty have laboratories at both the Parnassus Heights campus, where there is a focus of interest in cancer biology, and at the Mission Bay campus, where many of the neurobiology faculty are located. The administrative office of the Department is located at the Parnassus Heights campus. Anatomy faculty and staff are committed to building a diverse community that is welcoming and supportive, one that will nurture education and research.</p> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar" class="column"> <div class="sidebar"> <div class="section"> <div class="region region-sidebar"> <div id="block-block-6" class="block block-block"> <div class="content"> <h2><strong>Awards</strong></h2> <p><em><strong>The department of Anatomy congratulates:</strong></em><br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.sfn.org/initiatives/awards/sfn-award-winners"><strong>Dr. Allan Basbaum on</strong> <strong>receiving the SfN Ralph W. Gerard Prize in Neuroscience 2024</strong></a><br /> </p> <p><strong>Drs. Dana Rohde, Gregory Kincheloe, and Madeleine Norris on receiving the UCSF SOM 2023-2024 Bridges Curriculum – Foundations 1 and 2 Teaching Awards</strong><br /> </p> <p><a href="https://searlescholars.org/2024/05/23/scholars-for-2024/"><strong>Dr. Roarke Kamber on being named a Searle Scholar 2024</strong></a><br /> </p> <p><strong><a href="https://vilcek.org/prizes/prize-recipients/tomasz-nowakowski/">Dr. Tomasz Nowakowski on receiving the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science 2024</a></strong><br /> <strong> </strong></p> <p><a href="/awards"><em>More Awards...</em></a></p> <h5><strong><span style="color:#99cc00;"><i>________________________________</i></span></strong></h5> <h2><strong>News</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Mar 17, 2023<br /> <a href="https://medschool.ucsf.edu/news/announcing-licia-selleri-md-phd-director-ucsf-program-craniofacial-biology"><strong>Dr. Licia Selleri named Director of UCSF Program in Craniofacial Biology </strong></a><br /> </li> <li>Apr 1, 2022<br /> <a href="/latest-news"><strong>Drs. Derek Harmon and Barbie Klein have the highest cited article in the Anatomical Sciences Education journal for 2020-2021</strong></a><br /> </li> <li>Dec 13, 2021<br /> <a href="https://cancer.ucsf.edu/news/2021/12/13/year-in-review-2021#basic"><strong>Department of Anatomy in HDFCCC 2021 Yearly Overview</strong></a></li> </ul> <p><br /> <a href="/latest-news"><em>More News ...</em></a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div id="footer"> <div class="section"> <div class="footer-bottom"> <nav aria-label="Footer Navigation" class="footer--navigation"> <ul> <li><a href="https://anatomy.ucsf.edu/department-administration">Contact Us</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/accessibility-resources">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/website-privacy-policy">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/website-terms-use">Terms of Use </a></li> <li><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/azlist">A-Z Website List</a></li> </ul> </nav> <div class="footer--copyright"> <p>© 2024 The Regents of the University of California</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> /*<![CDATA[*/ (function() { var sz = document.createElement('script'); sz.type = 'text/javascript'; sz.async = true; sz.src = '//siteimproveanalytics.com/js/siteanalyze_8343.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(sz, s); })(); /*]]>*/ </script> </body> </html>