Robin Ippisch, PhD

Robin Ippisch, PhD is the Director of the UCSF Radiopharmaceutical Facility, which houses the cyclotron. Robin leads the cyclotron facility and its multidisciplinary team of chemists, engineers, and technologists. There she and her team perform the full manufacturing process to produce the radiopharmaceutical drugs administered to UCSF Health patients within the same day.

Robin earned her BS in Chemistry at Mills College of Oakland and her PhD from UC Davis. Prior to her current position, Robin worked as a research scientist at Avid Radiopharmaceuticals. She also previously served as a postdoctoral researcher and radiochemistry associate at Avid and was a staff research associate at UCSF.

Robin is most proud of how the radiopharmaceutical facility contributes to patient diagnosis and treatment along with facilitating new research and often enabling the first-in-human studies.