The University of California, San Francisco faced an urgent challenge: to expand its neuroscience research facilities quickly enough to match its global reputation and attract the nation’s leading scientists, or risk losing groundbreaking work that could change lives. Traditional funding couldn’t keep pace with the need, so UCSF turned to an innovative public-private partnership model. 

 

This approach freed UCSF to focus on its core mission of advancing discovery while establishing a new benchmark for research-driven partnerships through a world-class facility. With Edgemoor leading the development, the project advanced a full year faster than planned, delivering the facility well ahead of UCSF’s original schedule. Just as importantly, the partnership extended well beyond delivery — Edgemoor has remained engaged in the long-term operations and maintenance of the Center, ensuring the facility continues to perform at the level its research demands.

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More than a decade later, the Sandler Neurosciences Center is home to roughly 100 principal investigators and 500 additional researchers and staff working on some of the most consequential neuroscience research in the world, with a focus on Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, multiple sclerosis, and other neurological diseases. Together with the buildings that have risen alongside it, the Center has helped make UCSF Mission Bay one of the largest neuroscience complexes anywhere in the world.