Twenty years ago, the Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging (CMFI) at China Basin Landing opened its doors with San Francisco’s first 3T MRI and two 1.5T clinical scanners, followed a few years later by a cyclotron which launched our in-house radiopharmaceutical program. Since then, the CMFI has been at the forefront of 3T research and major advances in theranostics and precision medicine. We’re pleased to share highlights and milestones achieved along the way to this 20th anniversary and look forward to celebrating the CMFI’s first two decades with a reception in January.
In the early 2000s, Ronald Arenson, MD, chair of UCSF’s Radiology Department from 1992 to 2017, knew the department needed to expand. “We were totally out of space for research and clinical work at Parnassus. An external review of on-campus construction predicted a very high…
