Susan Desmond-Hellmann
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I actually think they were just as nervous as I was about money. They weren't convinced that I knew how to get them money. Because, you know, if you're running a program, you need money. It's the mother's milk of doing science.
Almost nothing.
The brand, there's a curriculum thing, there's some things like that.
Not that different. I mean, the most important things, you've got clinical income, you've got NIH-driven income, right? You've got other grant income, and you have philanthropy.
Of the money that you use every day, there's this discussion of overheads now. It probably gets up to a third.
Clinical is a lot, but a lot of it goes back to the hospital. You know, it's a not-for-profit. They spend it on the hospital.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's the revenue. And then the tuition is tiny.
Right. Because the number of students is really low. And the really good news at UCSF.
So the funny thing for me is... But you did and you got in.
Well, there's a story there. We talked about me being at University of Nevada. What we didn't talk about is my first year at University of Nevada, my youngest sister was born. So I lived at home and helped my mom in Reno.
Yeah. And number seven was born when I was a freshman. It was kind of crazy. But when I went to medical school, I used to have like this sign on the stairs. Be quiet. I'm studying down here. I was like probably a giant pain. But I wanted to go to San Francisco. My dad was born and raised in San Francisco. My grandma lived in San Francisco.
So even though I was still pretty young in terms of ever living outside the home, I knew San Francisco. I wanted to go. But UCSF had never taken a University of Nevada student because we were a pretty new medical school. I was only in the second four-year class.
Yeah. And I was excited like my head would blow off. Like I wanted to go to UCSF so bad. big time. So I'm going back to UCSF. And the really good news, what saved me as chancellor is philanthropy. It turns out that we needed people to care about the mission and the projects at UCSF right at the same time as the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world and the venture capitalists of the world.
And a lot of people had come into a lot of money Even though the overall economy was bad, it was coming back. And we had some spectacular successes. And my successor, Sam Hogood, continues to have that kind of success. And people are just really generous.
Yeah.
Among other things, one of my New Year's resolutions, I have a mini list. One thing that's always on the list is be more generous. I'm no Mark Zuckerberg, but I can be generous in other ways.
Don't forget the hospital.
The most important donor base is Grateful Patients.
or people who love science, technology. I hired John Ford, who had retired as the head of Stanford's fundraising. Moved up to the Northeast and he was my head of development. And I talked to John, I said, how do you do this? Teach me how to be a good fundraiser. And he talked about, tell people your hopes and dreams.
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