It used to be, once upon a time, that the northwest corner of the UC Berkeley campus was a bit sleepy, bordering as it did an older downtown that hadn't yet been revitalized. The important buildings on campus were located more centrally, or along the busy southside, or up in the hills. In the year 2012 all that has changed, and not one but two important life science lab buildings have been completed and opened their doors in the past year along Oxford Street, built to mesh comfortably with the now-fashionable and vibrant Downtown Berkeley scene at their doorsteps and to contribute to a growing life science research hub in that campus corner.
The two science buildings we're refering to are the just-completed Energy Biosciences Building (EBB) and the Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences. Together with UCB's Barker Hall (Molecular & Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute), Koshland Hall (Plant & Microbial Biology, Molecular & Cell Biology), and the Genetics and Plant Biology Building (Molecular & Cell Biology, Plant Biology), all within a block from each other, this once-sleepy corner is a hotbed of life science research and innovation.
[The Energy Biosciences Building located in the top-left block between Hearst Ave. and Berkeley Way is so new that Google has yet to update its map to include it; the Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences is at the bottom-right, on the campus side of Oxford Street in Berkeley]
The Energy Biosciences Building houses the Energy Biosciences Institute's west coast lab research facilities, as well as research labs from UCB's Department of Bioengineering. The Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) is a public-private research collaborative devoted to the multidisciplinary exploration of total-system solutions to global energy problems. The just-completed building boasts these specs:
[New biofuels research lab in the Energy Biosciences Building just opened, photo by Bruce Damonte, Smith Group Architects]
The other, even more momentous life science building opening and move-in this year took place in the spring at the impressive Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences on the UC Berkeley campus. Constructed on the site of the former Warren Hall (a public health science building ironically riddled with serious asbestos problems) and anchoring a group of biomedical and health science research facilities, the Li Ka Shing Building completes this stage of a vision for the NW corner that began with a multi-building construction boom in 1990. Here's what the new biomedical research building has to offer:
Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. looks forward each to greeting researchers from these UCB life science facilities and the many others on campus at its annual Berkeley BioResearch Product Faire tradeshow event, held next on June 5, 2013. For information on exhibiting, and to receive a free funding report for UCB, click here:
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