Parking:
Parking at the Mission Bay Community Center is free for attendees. The parking structure is located at 1675 Owens Street. Pull into the structure, collect a parking ticket and bring it with you to the registration desk for validation.

Map of Mission Bay campus (PDF format)

Location:
Founded in 1873, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is the only University of California campus in the ten-campus system that is dedicated exclusively to the health sciences.

UCSF Mission Bay, located just south of downtown San Francisco, is UCSF's new 43-acre life sciences campus for teaching and research.

Since breaking ground in October 1999, UCSF Mission Bay has moved from the purely visionary to the entirely visible. In early, January, 2003, faculty scientists, students and staff began moving into the first building, Genentech Hall. Occupancy of 900 will be complete by May. At the corner of 16th and Owens streets, in a region of the city once relegated to dilapidated warehouses and abandoned rail yards, Genentech Hall has now become a site of intense research activity and striking evidence of UCSF's new — second — campus for biomedical research and teaching.

Over the next few years, two other research buildings, a community center, child care center and landscaped open space will complete the first phase of development. Into this space will pour thousands of University scientists, students and staff. It is hoped that equally impressive numbers of private sector enterprises also will follow UCSF's lead, moving into the independent bioscience park that surrounds the campus and pursuing productive research partnerships to improve and extend lives.

As such, UCSF Mission Bay is expected to have a far-reaching impact on the speed and significance of research discoveries, the quality of health care, the growth of the regional economy and the revitalization of San Francisco's eastern waterfront.

UCSF Mission Bay is part of a longtime and historical City institution - San Francisco's oldest public university - and the newest link in a campus chain that connects virtually every neighborhood in the city. UCSF includes the 107-acre Parnassus Heights campus, home to graduate professionals attending the schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy; a graduate division for predoctoral and postdoctoral students and scientists; UCSF Medical Center; UCSF Children's Hospital; and Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute.

Other major campus sites include UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, home to the nationally designated UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, Women's Health Care Center and other clinical services; and Mission Center and Laurel Heights, both administrative and academic centers. UCSF also maintains partnerships with two affiliated hospitals, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The ACE 2006 Northern California Conference will be held at UCSF Mission Bay. A map of the campus is available below.