The Academic Senate is pleased to announce the selection of Nisha Acharya, MD, MS, as the recipient of the Twenty-Second Annual Faculty Research Lectureship in Clinical Science for her contributions to research on ocular inflammatory diseases. The lecture, titled, "Small Fields, Big Data: Advancing Evidence for Ocular Inflammatory Diseases", will take place on Thursday, March 05, 2026, at 3:30 p.m. on the Mission Bay Campus at William and Ruth Hoffman Auditorium in the Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision and will be broadcast over Zoom.

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Since 2001, this award has been bestowed on an individual member of the UCSF faculty with outstanding achievements in clinical research. Nominations are made by UCSF faculty, who consider the clinical research contributions of their colleagues and submit nominations for this prestigious award to the Academic Senate Committee on Research. Each year, the Committee on Research selects the recipient of this award. 

A list of the past recipients of the award can be viewed at https://senate.ucsf.edu/all-awards/frlcs