Organization

QB3 has research facilities at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and UCSF. QB3’s director oversees operations as a whole. An academic director heads each campus site.

The campus directors lead QB3’s educational initiatives and foster training in quantitative biosciences. They also direct collaborative research efforts, many of which center on core scientific facilities maintained by QB3. Research in quantitative biosciences often requires large equipment such as MRI scanners, genome sequencers or supercomputers, which are too expensive for a single lab to acquire. QB3’s campus directors keep current with the needs of their faculty, purchasing major equipment and hiring staff to ensure essential facilities are available for all.

A fourth division, the Innolab, based in the QB3 director’s office, helps researchers commercialize scientific discoveries and supports the Bay Area’s commercial life-science ecosystem. The Innolab manages QB3’s industry partnerships—with companies such as Pfizer, GE Healthcare Life Sciences, and Johnson & Johnson—and startup support, which guides researchers from the precommercial stage to efficient operational companies. Startup services include the QB3 Startup in a Box, our standard package designed to take an entrepreneur from an idea to a successful SBIR application; the QB3 Garage/Innovation Network; and our seed-stage venture capital fund, Mission Bay Capital.