Stanley Hall: cutting-edge by design

“This is an extraordinary building that will maximize scientific exchange and discourse among structural biologists, chemists, physicists, bioengineers, and computational biologists.”

Robert Tjian
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Faculty Director, Health Sciences Initiative

Stanley Hall was officially dedicated on September 28, 2007, marking the completion of Phase 1 of the Health Sciences Initiative. Speakers at the dedication ceremony and at the following day’s open house lauded the building’s ingenious design, intended to foster crossover between disciplines, with researchers situated in “neighborhoods” with colleagues in other fields. In his keynote address, Peter Kim, president of Merck Research Laboratories, commented, “What biologist, chemist or engineer wouldn’t want to work in a place like this?”
(October 2007)

 

A Letter from Faculty Director Robert Tjian

Thank you for visiting the home page for the Berkeley Health Sciences Initiative.

The Health Sciences Initiative is revolutionizing research and teaching at UC
Berkeley by providing our faculty and students with two state-of-the-art facilities
that encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration with their very designs. When
complete, these buildings will be the sites of cutting-edge research in human
health. Until then, the promise of their uniqueness is helping UC Berkeley
remain one of the world’s premier teaching and research institutions by inspiring a new style of collaboration among campus partners from a wide range of disciplines, including computer scientists, biologists, physicists, engineers, mathematicians and chemists.

I encourage you to spend time on this site learning about the new Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility, our plans for the new Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences, and exploring the new era in cross-disciplinary research and teaching that the Health Science Initiative is fostering. Currently, Berkeley faculty and students are unlocking the mysteries of cancer, the source of autoimmune disorders and the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease. With the innovative physical and organizational structures resulting from the Health Sciences Initiative, Berkeley is making new discoveries that contribute to combating the world’s most pressing human health problems.

Thanks to the support of public and private donors, the Health Sciences Initiative is ensuring that UC Berkeley is where hope begins for people who strive to live healthy, overcome disease and disability, and achieve life’s fullest potential today, and in the future.

Robert Tjian
Faculty Director, Health Sciences Initiative
Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator