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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]]."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/ | title=Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education | publisher=University of California, San Francisco | accessdate=15 December 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ucsf">{{cite web | url=http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/09/108946/ucsf-awarded-20m-federal-grant-tobacco-regulatory-sciences | title=UCSF Awarded $20M Federal Grant on Tobacco Regulatory Sciences | publisher=University of California, San Francisco | date=19 September 2013 | accessdate=16 December 2014 | author=Fernandez, Elizabeth}}</ref>

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.<ref name="ucsf" />

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://tobacco.ucsf.edu/ Official website]

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