UCSF Plans Cancer Research Facility

The University of California San Francisco (UCSF) is planning the Mission Bay Cancer Research Center. The research facility, expected to reach completion in 2006, will cost over $100-million. UCSF plans to develop a total of 2.65 million sf of biomedical laboratory and instructional space at its Mission Bay campus, for a construction cost of more than $2-billion. Buildings under construction on campus currently include a four-story community center, a five-story research facility for neuroscience, developmental biology and genetics, and the headquarters for the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research. UCSF is designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a comprehensive cancer center, and has recently received approximately $21-million in NCI funding.