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UCSF: $3 Billion Campus Turns 10

Written by Jennifer Nieuwkerk | Wed, Jan 08, 2014

The University of California, San Francisco considers the 10 year new, $3 billion Mission Bay campus to be its most important project in the school’s near 150-year history. The campus employs nearly 4,000 faculty members, staff and students working towards finding answers to tough questions in areas as diverse as cancer research and Alzheimers cures. The Mission Bay campus currently provides a research home to at least three of UCSF Nobel laureates.

The University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay Campus has a rich history in the medical and biotech fields. To celebrate 10 years since the campus's opening, the university created a video highlighting the Mission Bay campus's history:

UCSF Mission Bay Video

Courtesy of UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco ranks number two in the world in clinical medicine and pharmacy, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities, second only to Harvard University. Five faculty members have been awarded Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine, the most recent being Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, whose work on transforming adult skin cells into cells that can develop into any other type of human cell who was recognized by the Nobel Prize Committee in 2012. (UCSF)

The University of California, San Francisco receives a wealth of research funding from the NIH and NSF every year. In 2013, the NIH awarded the University of California, San Francisco $501.2 million in life science funding, while the NSF awarded the university $6 million in 2012. The Mission Bay Campus is a sixteen year-long project that has succeed with the help of public-private partnerships and generous donors. Compare the university's $501.2 million in NIH funding in 2013 with the funding the university received in its beggining years. In 1996, the University of California, San Francisco received $212.9 million in NIH funding. (NIH)

The Mission Bay Campus is a hotspot for life science research, start-ups and established companies. The campus has attracted more than 50 bioscience start-ups, nine established pharmaceutical and biotech companies, 10 venture capital firms and powerhouse scientific institutions like the J. David Gladstone Institutes and the California Insitute for Regeneartive Medicine. (UCSF

Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. has been growing with the University of California, San Francisco over the last 20 years, and we are excited to spotlight the multi-billion dollar Mission Bay campus as it turns 10. We first started our science research trade shows on the Parnassus campus in 1995 and moved to Mission Bay when it opened 10 years ago.

We are welcoming researchers to view the most recent advances in lab technology at the world-renowned University of California, San Francisco Mission Bay campus with our 9thAnnual San Francisco, Mission Bay Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Event on February 6th, 2014. 

Every year this event draws crowds of researchers seeking new technologies, the San Francisco, Mission Bay Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Lab Product Demonstration event attracted over 280 researchers from the life science labs in and around the vibrant Mission Bay research area. These researchers were interested in finding out which new technolgies would help them  with their long term research goals.

These were considered important factors in the likelihood of purchase by attending research professionals at the Mission Bay Event:

  • Saving money
  • Saving time
  • Improving resolution
  • Improving analytical equipment accuracy and resolution
  • Ease of product use
  • Quality of product
  • Reputation of product supplier

The phots below are from BVS events held in 2005 when UCSF Mission Bay just opened. Over the years this event has been offered twice a year to UCSF researchers. In the winter the event is held at the Mission Bay campus while the summer show is typically held at the Parnassus Campus.

 

 

San Francisco, Mission Bay Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ 2005

 

San Francisco, Mission Bay Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ 2005

 

 

 

 

San Francisco, Mission Bay Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ 2012

 

In conjunction with our San Francisco Biotechnology Vendor Showcase science research trade show, we will be hosting an event at the $496 million University of California, Davis marketplace on February 5th, 2014. The Sacramento BioResearch Product Faire™ Event complements our Mission Bay Campus Event and its an easy second stop for vendors that have new products for researchers.

 

Sacramento BioResearch Product Faire™ Event 2012

 

Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. is a full-service science research marketing and events-planning company that has been organizing science research trade shows at top research institutions across the country for over 20 years. We have been working with the University of California, San Francisco since 1995 and extend the invitation to be a part of this vibrant research and development marketplace at our next event. If you are interested in attending life science marketing events closer to home, we encourage you to view our 2014 calendar of events. For more information on the San Francisco, Mission Bay Biotechnology Vendor Showcase™ Event, click on the button below.