UC Berkeley boasts some of the most honored and distinguished faculty on the globe. Our faculty members are changing the world by shaping the minds of future generations and with breakthroughs in science. Our faculty is outstanding in its breadth and depth of excellence and the National Research Council ranked our departments in 35 disciplines among the top 10 in the country.

UC Berkeley is uniquely positioned to excel in bioscience research. Central to the growth and development of the Bay Area’s biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, faculty at UC Berkeley are committee to taking the lead in health sciences research to work with industry to maximize the economic and social benefits that flow from their discoveries.

In the profiles that follow, you will learn more about some of the extraordinary faculty who call UC Berkeley home.

Profiles in Hope

• Inventing the Laser — Charles Townes
• Beating Cancer — Brian Allison, Michael Botchan, Eva Nogales, Robert Tjian
• Two-Way Education — John Kuriyan
• What Frogs Tell Us — Tyrone Hayes
• The Living Brain — Robert Knight
• Stopping Dengue Fever — Eva Harris
• Profiling Genes — John Ngai
• Research in the Market — Ed Penhoet