June 4, 2009

National and local media feature opening of Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building

The June 2 grand opening celebration of the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building at UCSF’s Mission Bay campus generated widespread coverage by the media—print, television, radio and online.  In addition to the opening day event, news reports highlighted UCSF’s ongoing leadership in cancer research, philanthropic support from the Helen Diller Family, and the striking design of the new building.  News reports include:

Opening day celebration

• BusinessWeek:  UCSF doubles size of cancer labs with new center
• Forbes: UCSF doubles size of cancer labs with new center
• MSN Money: UCSF doubles size of cancer labs with new center
• Contra Costa Times: UC San Francisco unveils $135 million cancer research center
• California Healthline: UC-San Francisco Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, Mission Bay (scroll down to fifth headline)

Leadership in cancer research

• San Jose Mercury News: Scientists: Long-promised ‘$1,000 Gene Sequence’ less than two years off (Ran on the front page of June 8th edition)
• The Scientist: New medicine means research rethink (registration required)
• San Francisco Chronicle: $135 million UCSF cancer research site to open
• KTVU-TV (Fox-Ch 2): Scientists celebrate opening of new cancer center (video)
• ABC-7 (KGO-Ch 7): UCSF doubles size of cancer labs
• KTVU-TV (Fox-Ch 2): Side effects: The tumor throttle (blog)

Helen Diller: Philanthropist and Friend to UCSF

• San Francisco Chronicle: Helen, Sanford Diller fund UCSF Cancer Center
• San Mateo County Times: Woodside woman gives $35 million to UCSF for cancer center
• Palo Alto Daily News:  Woodside philanthropist Helen Diller helps fund UCSF cancer research center
• JTA – Jewish & Israel News: $35 million Diller Cancer Center to open at UCSF Monday

Building Design by Master Architect Rafael Viñoly

• California Home & Design: Mission’s Bay’s newest building has looks and brains (video)
• The Chronicle of Higher Education: U. of California at San Francisco opens lab building designed by Rafael Viñoly
• Interior Design: Rafael Viñoly Architects completes UCSF Cancer Research Building
• San Francisco Chronicle: UCSF’s Diller Building better inside than out
• WorldArchitectureNews.com: Rafael Viñoly design for the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building opens
• Architecture Innovations: Rafael Viñoly Architects completes Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Center

To see additional media coverage:

http://www.ucsf.edu/events/diller

Aga Khan University & UCSF form partnership to help underprivileged

UCSF and the Aga Khan University signed a memorandum of understanding today to advance their common goal to promote equitable human advancement and social justice in the less privileged parts of the world.

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