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Their name may be on a UC Irvine building, but members of the Chao family prefer working behind the scenes to improve the health of the community. Since their first gift to the university in 1995, three generations of Chaos have given nearly $30 million to the campus, quietly reshaping cancer research and care in Orange County and beyond.

Stem-cell therapy devised by cancer researcher Weian Zhao and his team in the Department of Pharmaceutical Science attacks cancer by targeting unique tissue stiffness.

Orange County philanthropists fund creation of the Sue and Ralph Stern Center for Clinical Trials and Research at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

After more than a decade of work helping patients like Allen Fremont, Dr. Sai-hong Ignatius Ou has gained FDA approval for a drug treatment that targets mutations of non-small cell lung cancers.

The “Anti-Cancer Challenge Celebration Concert,” to be held Oct. 21, 2017 at the UC Irvine Bren Events Center on the UC Irvine campus, will cap the inaugural Anti-Cancer Challenge series of events to raise funds for the UC Irvine Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, the only place in Orange County where people with advanced-stage or treatment-resistant cancers can access early-phase clinical trials involving the very latest therap

Brain cancer patient James Green sees a future for himself because of leading-edge surgery and innovative vaccines he received at UC Irvine's Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Targeted treatment in a UC Irvine clinical trial led by Dr. Ignatius Ou has rendered Jackie Raser’s lung tumor dormant and vastly improved her quality of life.

Avid paddle boarder Lan Zentil, who had a rare bone cancer removed from her shoulder by UC Irvine Health Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center specialists, is fully recovered and back on the waves.

HIPEC, a procedure that bathes the abdomen with heated chemotherapy drugs after ovarian cancer surgery, helps prevent any remaining cancer cells from spreading, say UC Irvine gynecologic oncologists.