Established in 2004, the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) is an interdisciplinary unit creating an intellectual home and community for research and training efforts in computational biology at UC Berkeley that transcends traditional departmental boundaries, so as to allow natural synergies to thrive and build a coordinated and compellling program. We are dedicated to fostering collaborations within the UC Berkeley community, as well as with the greater Bay Area.
Through our Designated Emphasis in Computational and Genomic Biology we provide our students with the interdisciplinary training necessary for the best jobs in industry and academia.
Our ultimate goal is to establish UC Berkeley as the premier institution for education, training and reseach in computational biology.
Specifically, we will:
- Coordinate and oversee the hiring of seven new faculty members to catalyze interdisciplinary interactions
- Create a compelling unified training program in computational biology that will be a model for universities worldwide
- Facilitate and coordinate the preparation of broad-scale research programs cutting across departmental boundaries
- Develop joint programs with industry and raise and administer industrial funding
- Develop outreach programs to attract women and underrepresented minorities to mathematical and computational sciences as applied to biological problems
The CCB is a program of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and is administratively housed in QB3. A partnership between the state of California, private industry, venture capital, and the University of California campuses at Berkeley, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz, QB3 is developing effective new solutions to the world's most urgent biological problems through multidisciplinary research, innovative educational programs, and industrial and venture capital partnerships.