Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education

The Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco, "serves as a focal point for a broad range of research, education, and public service activities for 46 faculty in 11 departments and all 4 schools at UCSF, as well as colleagues at UC Berkeley and UC Merced."^[1] It is part of the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute. The Center's director and principal investigator is Stanton Glantz, a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at UCSF.^[2]

In 2013, the Center received a five-year, $20 million grant from the new Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS) program under the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), one of 14 US institutions funded to develop a science-based approach to tobacco regulation.^[2]

References

^ "Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
^ ^a ^b Fernandez, Elizabeth (19 September 2013). "UCSF Awarded $20M Federal Grant on Tobacco Regulatory Sciences". University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 16 December 2014.