UCSF Weill Institute for Neuroscience building
UC San Francisco, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building

WHAT WE DID

Made possible through a landmark gift by the Weill Family Foundation, the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences leverages UCSF’s bench-to-bedside excellence.

The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building at the University of California San Francisco unites UCSF’s departments of neurology, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and neurological surgery to solve the most complex challenges in brain health through research, education, and patient care. The Weill Neurosciences Building is the first center at UCSF to integrate neuroscience research and clinical care. It was designed to fuel connectivity and collaboration and bring together multi-departmental clinics and clinical research centers along with dedicated spaces laboratory science, engineering, and computational research and support. As a cross-disciplinary hub, the building drives advances aimed at new treatments for disorders of the brain and nervous system while providing expert and compassionate care for patients. 

Features:

  • Research labs
  • Accessible learning spaces
  • Concrete flat plate gravity system with Special Concrete Shearwalls

Photos by Tim Griffith. 

Project Team

Adam Hugo-Holman
Principal

I lived in Plzen, Czechoslovakia as a kid for a year while my parents started an English speaking school.

Melissa Vickery
Associate Principal

I spent a year abroad in high school.

Ariel Creagh
Associate

My favorite architect is Santiago Calatrava.

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Kelly Dudek
Design Engineer

I was fortunate enough to travel some when I was younger and developed a fascination with some of history’s coolest structures. 

Ray Pugliesi
Senior Principal

I enjoy boating and tinkering on projects at our ‘family’ cabin at Shasta Lake.

Lynn Spoor smiling at the camera
Katie Boisseree
Project Engineer

I’ve never lived outside of the Bay Area.

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