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The qualities required to champion a worthy cause – passion and perseverance, vision and generosity of spirit – define the community that has already embraced The Campaign for UCSF Medical Center. If you share our mission – if you, too, care deeply about health care, in our community and for the world, today and for the future – we invite you to advance tomorrow’s medicine with us. Caregivers, scientists, patients, families, partners: We are champions all.

United in our passion for innovation, our compassion for each other, and our generosity, we are creating a model for tomorrow’s hospitals and a source of inspiration for tomorrow’s champions. And we’re looking for a few more to join us – people like you.

There are many reasons to be a Champion.

When completed, UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay will offer exceptional care, accelerated research, collaborative discovery, measurable excellence and a broad impact. Be our Champion, and help us change more lives than we can imagine. Click Here to champion our cause.

Exceptional Care

Children are often cared for in hospitals designed for adults, with equipment out of scale for small bodies. And with demand for specialized care often coming from across the region and around the globe, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital can be overcrowded. Your gift will change all that, and build on natural synergies in the care of women, cancer patients, and children.

Accelerated Research

Today, it can take 15 years to test one discovery that might yield one new drug. Through The Campaign for UCSF Medical Center, you can help build an environment that, by integrating research and care, accelerates the translation process. Already, UCSF scientists are using a new research model to test six breast cancer therapies simultaneously. This is the shape of research to come – fast, efficient, full of possibilities.

Collaborative Discovery

What happens when three leading enterprises of research and care share a single campus equipped for innovation? Brilliant cross-pollination, as specialists collaborate to advance the breakthrough concept of personalized medicine – treatments biologically tailored to each patient. New drugs, gene-based therapies, diagnostic techniques that identify specific disease biomarkers – innovations like these can save lives. And your investment will make them possible.

Measurable Excellence

By many measures, an investment in The Campaign for UCSF Medical Center will deliver exceptional returns. Mission Bay hospitals will enhance and save lives, and facilitate the translation of laboratory discoveries into care innovations. They will provide a new model of sustainability for 21st-century hospitals. And they will raise the profile of a Bay Area institution that already ranks among the best in the world.

Broad Impacts

Your gift to The Campaign for UCSF Medical Center supports Bay Area innovation and will deliver the very best health care possible, starting here in San Francisco. But your impact will be anything but local. The return on your investment will ripple far beyond three hospitals and one city, and will be measured in the lives of people all over the world.

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Jessica Galloway

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Gideon, Susan, and Jonathan Yu

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