Research
The Region’s World-Class Research Universities
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Major National Research Laboratories
There is a critical relationship between the Bay Area’s R&D infrastructure and the extraordinary competitive strength, technological and scientific leadership and the innovative character of the region’s economy. At the core of the region’s unparalleled research and development infrastructure are the five world-class research universities and five major national research laboratories:
| Stanford University | Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| UC Berkeley | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| UC Davis | NASA Ames Research Center |
| UC San Francisco | Sandia National Laboratory |
| UC Santa Cruz | Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
In addition the region has two Institutes for Science and Innovation: QB3 and CITRIS – which specialize in research that expands the region’s innovative achievements through academia and private sector collaboration.
NEW MAJOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE COMPLEXES POWERING NEW VISIONS AND INNOVATIVE ACHIEVEMENTS
Mission Bay:
PREMIER CENTER OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Statement from Jeffrey A.Bluestone, Ph.D., UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
“The field of bioscience research is at a time of great opportunities – one we are likely to look back on as advancing health much as the Industrial Revolution changed the world a century ago. UCSF and its Mission Bay campus are at the epicenter of that revolution, with the potential to transform the way we deliver health care for the next century.”
MISSION BAY
Mission Bay, which has been designated an Innovation Hub by the State of California, is a 303-acre academic, business, and residential complex centered on the UCSF Mission Bay research campus. The 43-acre campus, the nation’s largest biomedical research university expansion, broke ground in 1999 on land formerly occupied by warehouses and rail yards, and is expected to double UCSF’s research capability.
Major research buildings include Genentech Hall, which opened in 2003 and supports 60 laboratories focused on basic research in structural, chemical, molecular and cell biology and its application to medicine. The Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Hall, across the quad, houses the
Center for Brain Development, as well as several laboratories for programs in genetics and the behavioral and developmental sciences; and the Helen Diller Family Cancer Research Building, is home to leading scientists investigating cancer’s basic biological mechanisms and impact.
QB3 (California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences) occupies Byers Hall and provides networking services, operates the QB3 Garage, a UCSF incubator, and maintains core facilities, such as the Small Molecule Discovery Center and the Surbeck Laboratory for Advanced Imaging.
Three other research and patient care facilities are also underway on the UCSF campus. The Cardiovascular Research Building, which will house basic research alongside outpatient facilities, is expected to open for occupancy in October 2010. UCSF also broke ground on a Neuroscience Laboratory and Clinical Research Building adjacent to Rock Hall in May 2010, with an estimated completion date of 2012. UCSF also expects to break ground on a new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay in late 2010. That facility, which will occupy a 14.5 acre site south of the current cluster of UCSF buildings, will house three specialty hospitals serving children, women and cancer patients and is slated to open in 2014.
Flanking the campus to the west are the J. David Gladstone Institutes, which conduct research in immunology, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative disorders, and the UCSF Orthopaedic Institute, which is a major center for outpatient treatment, research and training in musculoskeletal conditions, injuries and sports medicine. The facility also houses the Human Performance Center and an Orthotics and Prosthetics Center.
Industry partners located at Mission Bay include Bayer Healthcare’s US Innovation Center; Nektar Therapeutics; FibroGen; Sirna Therapeutics; Celgene; and a number of venture capital firms taking space in the Mission Bay West Campus at 1700 Owens Street.
LIVERMORE VALLEY OPEN CAMPUS (LVOC)
LLNL and Sandia/CA Creating Open, Unclassified R&D Campus
With the support of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Science, Sandia National Laboratories/California and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working collaboratively to create an open, unclassified research and development space called the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC).
The motivation for the LVOC stems from current and future national security challenges that require increased coupling to the private sector to understand threats and deploy solutions in areas such as energy and environmental security, economic security, cyber security, high performance computing and non-proliferation.
As currently envisioned, the LVOC will consist of an approximately 110-acre parcel along the eastern edge of the Sandia and Livermore Laboratory sites bordering Greenville Road.
The LVOC will be modeled after research and development campuses found at major industrial research parks and other U.S. Department of Energy laboratories with campus-like security, a set of business and operating rules devised to enhance and accelerate international scientific collaboration and partnerships with U.S. government agencies, industry and academia.
The LVOC also could house amenities and features such as conference space, collaboration facilities and a visitor’s center to support educational and research activities.
Objectives
- Enhance the two laboratories’ national security missions by substantially increasing engagement with the private sector and academic community.
- Stay at the forefront of the science, technology and engineering fields.
- Ensure a quality future workforce by expanding opportunities for open engagement of the broader scientific community.
Research areas
Initial research areas for the LVOC will include:
- Sandia’s Combustion Research Facility (CRF) and Transportation Research
- High Energy Density Physics and Inertial Fusion Energy
- High Performance Computing
- Climate and Energy Research
- Cyber Security Science
Updates
- Open access is now available to Sandia’s CRF
- An interim high performance computing center is in development at Livermore Laboratory
Contact Information to discuss future collaborative opportunities:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: (925) 423-3125
Sandia National Laboratories/CA: (925) 294-2447