A year before the Presbyterian Medical Center opened, the San Francisco Institutes of Medical Sciences was established as an independent institute to continue medical research when Stanford moved to Palo Alto.
Since its inception, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute has continued to make many important contributions to biomedical and behavioral research. Many of our achievements have been described in California Pacific Currents, a yearly publication reporting on groundbreaking medical research and technologies, as well as academic medical programs at California Pacific Medical Center.
Here are some highlights of CPMC Research Institute’s contributions: