UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer CenterUCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is an NCI-designated Cancer Center, affiliated with the UCSF School of Medicine and the UCSF Medical Center. It is one of 57 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, and one of three in Northern California.
University of California, San FranciscoPublic university in California, USThe University of California, San Francisco (UCSF or UC San Francisco) is a publicland-grantresearch university in San Francisco, California, United States. It is part of the University of California system and is dedicated entirely to health science and life science. It conducts research and teaching in medical and biological sciences. UCSF was founded as Toland Medical College in 1864.
UCSF School of MedicineThe UCSF School of Medicine is a multisite medical school of the University of California, San Francisco, with a historical campus located at the base of Mount Sutro on the Parnassus Heights campus in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1864 by Hugh Toland, it is the oldest medical school in California and in the western United States.
UCSF HealthUCSF Health is the academic health system of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), providing adult and pediatric health care in San Francisco, Oakland, and elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area. Its principal components include UCSF Medical Center, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals, the UCSF faculty practice, Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital, and community hospitals in San Francisco.UCSF School of NursingThe UCSF School of Nursing is the nursing school of University of California, San Francisco, and is located in San Francisco, California. It consistently ranks among the top nursing schools in the United States by NIH funding. It is recognized as one of the premier graduate nursing schools in the United States.
Mission Bay, San FranciscoMission Bay is a 303-acre (123 ha) neighborhood on the east side of San Francisco, California. It is bordered by China Basin to the north, Dogpatch to the south, and San Francisco Bay to the east. Originally an industrial district built on reclaimed land, it was transformed beginning in the late 1990s through the creation of the UCSF Mission Bay campus and large-scale mixed-use development.
Teaching hospitalA teaching hospital or university hospital is a hospital or medical center that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located with medical schools.
1906 San Francisco earthquakeEarthquake in CaliforniaA magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck the coast of Northern California at 05:12 am Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. With a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), it created high-intensity shaking from Eureka on the North Coast to the Salinas Valley, an agricultural region to the south of the San Francisco Bay Area. Extensive fires soon broke out in San Francisco and lasted for several days.
San FranciscoCity and county in California, USConsolidated city-county in California, United StatesSan Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the fourth-most populous city in California and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with a population of 826,079 in 2025. Among U.S. cities with a population of 200,000 or more, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income, third by population density, and sixth by aggregate income as of 2024.
San Francisco BaySan Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, which gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California.
University of CaliforniaThe University of California (UC) is California's system of public research universities. Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz. The system is the state's land-grant university.
Mount SutroMount Sutro is a hill in central San Francisco, California. It was originally named Mount Parnassus.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.