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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

In 1948, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) established the Cancer Research Institute. It received the NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center designation in 1999 and renamed the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC) in 2007. The HDFCCC has a growing network of clinical partners that include the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco VA Health Care System, and other regional providers.

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University of California, San Francisco

Comp
Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS
Director
1450 3rd Street
UCSF Box 0128
San Francisco, CA 94143
(415) 476-5876

Senior Leaders

Senior Leader Title
Alan Ashworth, FRS, PhD Director
Benjamin Braun, MD, PhD Associate Director for Shared Resources
Charles Craik, PhD Associate Director for Laboratory Translation
Emily Bergsland, MD Associate Director for Education
Eric Small, MD Deputy Director
Kate Shumate, MPA Associate Director for Administration
Nynikka Palmer, MPH, DrPH Interim Associate Director for Community Engagement
Rahul Aggarwal, MD Associate Director for Clinical Sciences
Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD Associate Director for Population Sciences

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Breast Oncology Laura van 't Veer, PhD; Laura Esserman, MD, MBA; Andrei Goga, MD, PhD
Cancer Control Tung Nguyen, MD; Pamela Ling, MD; Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Lewis Lanier, PhD; Lawrence Fong, MD; Thomas Martin, MD
Molecular Oncology Charles Craik, PhD; Pamela Munster, MD; Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD
Neurologic Oncology Susan Chang, MD; Nicholas Butowski, MD; Manish Aghi, MD, PhD
Pediatric Malignancies William Weiss, MD, PhD; Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD; Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD
Prostate Cancer Eric Small, MD; Felix Feng, MD; Matthew Cooperberg, MD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Cancer Imaging Research Shared Resource Robert Flavell, MD, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Histology and Biomarkers Shared Resource Scott Kogan, MD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Laboratory for Cellular Analysis Benjamin Braun, MD, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Preclinical Therapeutics Shared Resource Rosemary Akhurst, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Small Molecule Discovery Shared Resource Michelle Arkin, PhD
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control Biostatistics and Population Research Shared Resource Mi-Ok Kim, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics Computational Biology and Informatics Shared Resource Adam Olshen, PhD
Last Updated
June 5, 2024