Overview
- The gift from the Edward Fein Charitable Trust renames the site the Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, the first donation to name a UCSF division.
- Funds are unrestricted but must be used at the Mission Bay center, providing leaders with flexibility during a period of uncertain federal research funding.
- UCSF says the endowment will accelerate diagnostics and therapies while strengthening patient care, caregiver services, training, and outreach.
- The center has helped establish advanced brain imaging and blood biomarker tests for Alzheimer’s and leads large national trials of new treatments.
- The donation extends Fein family support dating to 2015, as the center founded by Bruce Miller now includes more than 50 faculty, 330 staff, and a roughly six-week patient waitlist.