The $100 million California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research is nearing completion at the Mission Bay campus in South San Francisco. The 153,000-sf facility is the first of four buildings that will make up the institute known as QB3 and is connected to U.C. San Francisco's Genentech Hall on all five stories. The Mission Bay facility will house a magnetic resonance imaging machine, a high through-put screening facility, a 250,000-compound chemical library for drug development, and 8,000 CPUs. The second QB3 building is under construction at U.C. Berkeley with the remaining two QB3 facilities being built at U.C. Santa Cruz. The collaborative three-campus project will bring a multidisciplinary focus to complex biology issues by integrating quantitative sciences such as physics, engineering, and mathematics. Occupancy is slated for March 1, 2005.
