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.

University of California, San Francisco

Comp

Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS
Director

1450 3rd Street
UCSF Box 0128
San Francisco, CA 94143

(415) 476-5876

Admin Leader

Kate Shumate, MPA, CCRP
Chief of Staff; Director, Administration and Planning

COE Leader

Kim Rhoads, MD, MS, MPH
Associate Director, Community Outreach/Engagement

CRTEC Leader

Emily Bergsland, MD
Associate Director for Education

PED Leader

Tung Nguyen, MD, BA; Nynikka Palmer, DrPH, MPH, BS
Associate Director for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA); Assistant Director of DEIA

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