UCSF Mission Bay: A San Francisco Success Story

A decade after opening its first research building at San Francisco's Mission Bay, UCSF has far surpassed its ambitious vision for a campus that today is an epicenter for science, health and hope.

This year, UCSF celebrates a decade of discovery at Mission Bay -- a milestone that represents both a scientific renaissance and a significant revitalization of a once-blighted area in San Francisco's southeast sector.

Since breaking ground in 1999, the development of the $3 billion Mission Bay campus is considered the single most important endeavor that UCSF has undertaken in its nearly 150-year history. UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, Chancellor Emeritus J. Michael Bishop, UCSF Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, Mark Laret, CEO of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, and Regis Kelly, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences reflect on the success story that is UCSF Mission Bay.

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[kenzie backlin]

I have been there that's where my parents went to have a kidney transplant