Grand Opening, June 2, 2009Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building
1450 3rd Street, UCSF/Mission Bay Campus
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Designed by noted architect Rafael Viñoly, the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building encompasses five floors and 162,000 square feet of usable space. The building features a central atrium and open-stairway design that will foster interaction among researchers on all floors. When fully occupied, the building will house more than 400 scientists and will consolidate research programs in basic cancer research, brain tumors, and urologic oncology, as well as population- and behavioral-sciences research including epidemiology/surveillance, cancer screening, chemo-prevention, health services and policy, and health communication. Groundbreaking on the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building took place in Spring 2006. Map, Mission Bay campus >
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Mitchel S. Berger, MD, is Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery and Director of the Brain Tumor Research Center at UCSF. He holds the Kathleen M. Plant Distinguished Professorship. |
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J. Michael Bishop, MD, has served since 1998 as Chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco. In 1989, together with Harold Varmus, MD, Bishop was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of oncogenes. |
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Brook Byers is Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a preeminent Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Mr. Byers funded the start-up company DNA Direct. |
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Peter R. Carroll, MD, is Chair of the Department of Urology and holds the Ken and Donna Derr - Chevron Distinguished Professorship in Prostate Cancer. He also serves as Director, Strategic Planning and Clinical Services for the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. |
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Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, is a physician and distinguished leader in cancer research. She served as president of product development at Genentech from 2004 until April 2009. Board-certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, Desmond-Hellmann completed her clinical training at UCSF and will return as the university's ninth Chancellor in August 2009. |
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Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, is Director of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and an internationally renowned molecular biologist and cancer researcher. |
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J. Craig Venter, PhD, founded and serves as president of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a not-for-profit research organization with more than 400 scientists and staff dedicated to human, microbial, plant, synthetic, and environmental genomic research, as well as to the exploration of social and ethical issues in genomics. Venter is also founder and president of Synthetic Genomics, a company that is developing and commercializing genomic-driven solutions to address global energy and environmental challenges.
In 1998, Venter founded Celera Genomics to sequence the human genome, using the whole-genome shotgun technique, new mathematical algorithms, and automated DNA-sequencing machines. The successful completion of this research culminated in the publication of the human genome in February 2001. He and his team continued this work and published the first complete diploid genome in 2007. In both 2007 and 2008, J. Craig Venter was listed on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. |
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