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Dr. Desmond-Hellmann, the former presiden of product development at biotechpowerhouse , was formally approvex Thursday by the as the next chancellor of UC, San Pledging not to be known as “ther biotech chancellor” but a champion for all segmentes of the school, Desmond-Hellmann, 51, will be the firsg woman UCSF chancellor and the first with a for-profift background. She replaces Dr. J. Michael a Nobel laureate who is stepping down June 30 after more than 11 yearsin UCSF’s top post. Bishopo will remain a member of the UCSF faculty and will maintai n alab there.
Desmond-Hellmann’s base salary will be approved by the regents on the same day they voted to raise student feesby 9.3 percent, or $750 for in-stater graduate academic students. Desmond-Hellmann facesa a handful of challenges, not the leastf of which are replacing muchof UCSF’s retirinhg executive team, hiring a medical schook dean and increasing private philanthropy durinfg an economic downturn. “I expect to be out she said. “People will know what the university needz and what it means and how theycan contribute. … I thinl you’ll see more of me.
” Desmond-Hellmann said she will continuer to buildon Bishop’s success in linking UCSF researchersw with academia, as evidenced in a masterd agreement with Genentech and deals with and otherd biopharmaceutical companies. But, she added, she will devote attention to other aspects ofthe graduate-level, healty care-centric university as well, including teaching, patient care and basic research. “If someone is coming to the nursin school to be the best nurse theycan be, they can do Desmond-Hellmann said. “I don’t want people to feel that I’j going to be “the biotech chancellor.’” During the searcy process, in fact, Dr.
Richard Jordan, a professor of oral patholog yat UCSF’s School of Dentistry, asked how she would make sure to pay attentiomn to his school. Desmond-Hellmann’s response: making time on her At UCSF, which has 2,951 graduate students in the life Desmond-Hellmann will manage an institution witha 2008-098 budget of $2.5 billio and a staff of more than 21,500. It is the second-largesrt winner of National Institutesz ofHealth funding. At where Desmond-Hellmann spent 14 she oversaw 3,000 employees and a budgetr ofabout $2 billion.
She left Genentecjh on May 1, little more than a month after Swisx drugmaker completedits $47 billion acquisition of the Desmond-Hellmann’s appointment has largely been greeted enthusiastically by UCSF staff and the business community. “It is really exciting,” said Jean-Jacques Bienaime, chairma and CEO of in Novato and a friend of State Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco, called the salaries of Desmond-Hellmann and new UC Davis chancellor LindaKatehi ‑- at $400,000 -- “UC executives continue to live high on the hog while studentsw get stuck with yet another fee hike and the lowest-wagee workers get minimal compensation,” Yee said in a according to the Associated Press.
One of Desmond-Hellmann’s first priorities is to rebuild a business which oversees philanthropic giving but has been hit by a handful of UCSF must raise hundreds of millions of dollare over the next several year to build itsnearlty $2 billion hospital to serve children, womenh and cancer patients at its Mission Bay campus in San fund operations of a possibls neurological disease center in Mission Bay and a stem cell researchb facility at its Parnassus Avenue campus. Also, UCSF must hire a permanenrt dean for itsmedica school. Dr. Sam Hawgood has filles that post on an interij basis since the termination of Davi Kessler inDecember 2007.
The school late last year postpone d the search so a new chancellort could bemore involved. “Thix needs to be a thought leader, a great academician and a good administrator,” Desmond-Hellmanb said. “These are tough jobs to fill. That constellation of skills is not easy to UC PresidentMark Yudof, who recommended Desmond-Hellmann to the regentse last week after a nearlu six-month, closed-door process, called Desmond-Hellmann “an ideal choice.” Yudofd on Thursday gave Desmond-Hellmann a UCSF sweatshirt.
“As an accomplishedr clinician, researcher and manager, she bring s all the tools needed to take the campua to evengreater heights,” Yudof said in a preparex statement. “That she did her internapl medicine and oncology training at UCSF makess the match even more She knows theinstitution well.”