Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford

Millie Hughes-Fulford, Marin’s first astronaut, orbited space for nine days in June 1991 as a payload specialist aboard NASA’s first Spacelab mission dedicated to biomedical studies. The SLS-1 mission flew over 3.8 million miles, 140 orbits, and its crew completed over eighteen experiments during a nine-day period, bringing back more medical data than any previous […]

LOIS BARTH EPSTEIN, M.D., D. SC. (H.C.)

Lois Barth Epstein was a limitless woman who exceled as a physician and scientist, as wife, mother and grandmother, as a community leader, and as an artist. A 1959 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Lois achieved international recognition for accomplishments in medical research. As UCSF Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the interferon and Tumor […]