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The University of California, San Francisco is among the world's leading institutions in biological and medical research and counts five Nobel Prize recipients amongst its faculty. In 2019, UCSF held its spot as the top recipient among public institutions in funding from the National Institutes of Health for the thirteenth year in a row. UCSF has been second in NIH funding among all academic institutions nationwide for the past nine years.

UCSF's Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital is an internationally recognized global leader in infectious disease.


LIINC is a collaboration of UCSF research teams at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, California.

The LIINC Clinical Research Core and the LIINC Tissue Program are funded by the PolyBio Research Foundation to support the work of scientists at UCSF and around the world trying to determine the causes of Long COVID.