The Department of Surgery excels in a broad range of research. Its portfolio of basic science and clinical outcomes research includes fetal surgery, transplantation immunology, tissue engineering, immunogenetics, vascular biology, trauma prevention, wound healing, genomics, cancer biology, and neurobiology of digestive diseases.
Labs & Research Centers
- Alaoui Lab
- Atherosclerosis Research Lab
- Bhargava Lab
- Bivona Lab
- Cardiac Biomechanics Lab
- Cardiothoracic Translational Research Laboratory
- Center for Bioengineering and Tissue Regeneration
- Cohen Lab
- Conte Lab
- Endocrine Surgical Oncology Lab
- Grenon Lab
- Immunogenetics and Transplantation Lab
- Ischemic Organ Injury Lab
- Kang Lab
- Kim Lab
- Laboratory for Accelerated Vascular Research
- Maley Lab
- Pediatric Surgery Lab
- UCSF Program in Craniofacial and Mesenchymal Biology (CMB)
- Rapp Lab
- Surgical Oncology Research Lab
- Tang Lab
- Thoracic Oncology Laboratory
- Transplantation Research Lab
- Tumor Microenvironment Network (TMEN)
- Wang Lab



