The UCSF Clinical and Life Sciences Building will have eight floors above ground and two levels below, which will house a proton therapy center. Primary care and multi-specialty clinics will occupy floors two through five, and the top floors will house a life sciences business incubator that will serve as an extension of UCSF’s programs in innovation and entrepreneurship. Rendering by Herzog & de Meuron
The UC Board of Regents has approved a state-of-the-art UCSF cancer treatment center, as well as UCSF research space, a life sciences incubator, and primary and specialty care clinics as part of the Dogpatch Power Station development in southeast San Francisco.
A public-private partnership, the UCSF Clinical and Life Sciences Building will be located four blocks south of UCSF’s Mission Bay Campus site and will serve as an anchor tenant in the Power Station project, bringing jobs and access to UCSF Health clinical care in a growing area of the city.
Central to the building’s benefits is a center for proton beam therapy, a highly precise treatment that is currently available only in Southern California and Seattle on the West Coast. When it opens in 2029, the proton therapy center will serve patients throughout Northern California. The building will also host a life sciences incubator for scientific startup companies that benefit from proximity to UCSF’s research campus nearby.
“This is an exciting project that will bring together renowned patient care and biomedical research, as well as graduate-level training and new biomedical companies to serve the region for years to come,” said UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS. “It will also provide good jobs in the Dogpatch area, contributing to the economic vitality of this area of the city. We are pleased that the UC Regents saw the value in this project and its importance to San Francisco.”
Expanded access to world-class clinical care
Designed by architects Herzog & de Meuron in partnership with Stantec, the 130-foot building will have eight floors above ground and two levels below, which will house the proton therapy center. Primary care and multi-specialty clinics will occupy floors two through five.
Opening in 2028, the clinical space will allow UCSF Health to serve a growing number of patients currently unable to access its services in both primary care and in the specialty-care programs for which UCSF Health is ranked among the best in the nation.