Gift Launches Surbeck Program in Advanced Imaging

A gift in excess of $5 million commemorates the life and work of Margaret Hart Surbeck and promotes research in advanced imaging and human health at UCSF Mission Bay.  The late Mrs. Surbeck’s will established INDNJC, Inc. (a non-profit corporation) to fund health-related research reflecting her lifelong interest in electromagnetic radiation. After conducting a nationwide search, the INDNJC board of directors selected UCSF as the best institution, and Professor Sarah Nelson as the distinguished researcher, to lead this effort. The result is the Surbeck Program in Advanced Imaging.

“Margaret Surbeck had a lifelong dream of using radio waves to improve the health of mankind. She would be pleased to learn that we now use electromagnetic radiation to produce internal images of immense diagnostic and investigative value,” says Reg Kelly, PhD, UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor. “This support will enable us to employ this technology to observe the processes of disease and hasten progress toward new therapies.”

Members of the INDNJC Board of Directors meet with UCSF Radiology Scientists at

the 2007 Surbeck Young Investigators Award ceremony.