The California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research QB3 is a partnership between UCSF, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz that was established to bring together the powerful quantitative tools of the physical sciences, engineering and mathematics to tackle complex biological problems.

The Institute involves more than 100 scientists housed in Byer’s Hall at the Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco, in a new building at UC Berkeley and in two new facilities at UC Santa Cruz. The QB3 Byers Hall building at Mission Bay has roughly 96,000 sq. ft. of space on five floors designed to house multi-department and multi-disciplinary laboratories, lecture halls, and shared scientific resources.

The center houses the Surbeck Advanced Imaging Laboratory which includes a 7T GE whole body scanner and a 3T research scanner, µCT, microscopy, computational and other facilities. There is an electronics shop, a machine shop and a server room that is dedicated to meet the heavy computational needs of the research programs in the building.

QB3 Web site: http://www.qb3.org/