{"entity":{"id":"helen-diller","kind":"person","name":"Helen Diller","aka":["Helen and Sanford Diller"],"tldr":"The cancer centre at UCSF carries her name, and in 2017 the Helen Diller Foundation gave UCSF $500 million, the largest gift in its history, bringing the family's total there to $650 million.","summary":"Helen Diller (1918-2011) and her husband Sanford Diller, a San Francisco property developer, gave the gift that named the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at Mission Bay in 2003. In January 2017 UCSF announced a $500 million gift from the Helen Diller Foundation, the largest single donation in its history, with $400 million endowing faculty and student support and $100 million as a discretionary innovation fund, and stated that it brought the family's total giving to UCSF to $650 million. In February 2018 the Foundation committed a further $500 million toward planning a new UCSF hospital. The cancer centre that bears her name is one of the largest on the US west coast, and the endowments fund the people who work in it.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"UCSF: largest-ever gift honours Helen Diller (2017)","url":"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/01/405476/largest-ever-gift-ucsf-honors-philanthropist-helen-diller"},{"label":"Sanford Diller (Wikipedia)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_Diller"}],"tags":["hero","donor"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["ucsf"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-funding-allocation"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Namesake of the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; the Diller family's UCSF giving reached $650 million by 2017","specialisms":["Cancer centre building","University philanthropy"],"profiles":[],"papers":[]},"route":"/people/helen-diller/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"ucsf","kind":"institution","name":"UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/ucsf/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-funding-allocation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Funding follows fashion, not burden","route":"/bottlenecks/b-funding-allocation/"}]}}