{"id":462735,"date":"2026-09-13T18:39:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462735\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:39:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:39:03","slug":"celebrating-the-2026-ucsf-medal-recipients-university-of-california-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/462735\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the 2026 UCSF Medal Recipients &#8211; University of California, San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of California, San Francisco\u00a0shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7504239061562458112\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir work has advanced health and improved lives around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s UCSF Medal recipients have made lasting contributions across science, patient care, and public health \u2013 from advancing treatments for type 1 diabetes and cancer to expanding lifesaving HIV care worldwide and leading institutions and communities through major public health challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Jeff Bluestone, Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Eric Goosby, and Julie Gerberding on receiving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsf.edu\/news\/2026-ucsf-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UCSF\u2019s highest honor.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To which Jeffrey Bluestone, Managing Director at Vie Ventures, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7504547984945184768\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">added<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to be standing next to these outstanding UCSF Medal recipients. To receive the UCSF Medal is an extraordinary honor-deeply meaningful and genuinely humbling. UCSF has given me far more than I could ever hope to give back, and anything I accomplished here was possible only because of the remarkable people who shared this journey with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can also read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/magazine\/jeffrey-bluestone-sonoma-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Bluestone: Kick-Ass Science, Collaborate Like Hell, Make a Difference<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncodaily.com\/magazine\/jeffrey-bluestone-sonoma-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-585226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/OD-8_.12-1-800x450.webp\" alt=\"Celebrating the 2026 UCSF Medal Recipients - University of California, San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" title=\"Celebrating the 2026 UCSF Medal Recipients - University of California, San Francisco 2\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of California, San Francisco\u00a0shared on LinkedIn: \u201cTheir work has advanced health and improved lives around the world.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-462735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}