$35 million gift from Diller family $35 million gift from Diller family (December 17, 2003)

The Helen Diller Family foundation has made a gift of $35 million to support construction of a new cancer research building at the University of California San Francisco Mission Bay. The facility will be named the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building. Helen and Sanford Diller are residents of Woodside.

The building will be part of a new 43-acre UCSF research and teaching campus at Mission Bay in San Francisco.

Designed by architect Rafael Vinoly, the five-story building will provide 160,000 square feet of space for research on cancers of the prostate, kidney and brain. It will also house the UCSF Cancer Research Institute, where 15 laboratories investigate the basic biological mechanisms of cancer.

In 1999 the Diller family also established the Helen and Sanford Diller Family Endowment in Jewish Studies with a gift of $1.5 million to the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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