Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility
When completed in 2006, Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility will
be Berkeley’s second largest science building at 285,000 square feet. The facility will enable
Berkeley to carry out a visionary program that will meet the increasing demand
for path-breaking biosciences research, train the next generation of biomedical
scientists, and provide the scientific infrastructure needed to recruit future
generations of faculty as outstanding as those who teach at Berkeley today.
The facility will include research and teaching laboratories, nanofabrication facilities, cleanrooms (class 1,000 and 10,000), an NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance imaging) suite, a multimedia/distance learning center, offices, lecture halls and administrative space.
Fostering Collaboration
The new eight-story facility will foster collaboration and advancement in the field of molecular and biological chemistry, where the lines between disciplines have become increasingly blurred. The facility will house 36 integrated laboratory facilities for biomedical imaging, bio-MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), chemical biology, computations biology, structural biology and tissue engineering.
The facility will also be home to the new Department of Bioengineering and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), a cooperative effort to apply quantitative sciences - mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering - to biomedical research.
Even the laboratory design in the new Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering
Facility will foster collaboration. Interwoven among traditional laboratories
will be
computational suites that, by their co-location, will enhance a synergistic
relationship between experimental and theoretical approaches to research problems.
Stanley: The Old and the New
The Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility replaces Stanley Hall, named
for the late UC Berkeley Professor Wendell M. Stanley who was awarded the 1946
Nobel
Prize in Chemistry for charting new territory in the study of viruses. The
original Stanley Hall was completed in 1952 and warranted replacing to meet
current seismic codes and update outdated laboratory facilities.
The old and new Stanley buildings occupy the same site off the Mining Circle on the east side of campus, though the new building will be approximately four times larger than the old building. The exterior of the new Stanley Facility will be made of granite and copper to complement the classical buildings that surround it, like the Hearst Memorial Mining Building.
Stanley Facility Fact Sheet
Download a PDF version of the factsheet, which contains information on the purpose, history, and plans for the Stanley
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Stanley Facility Time Line
- Today
- Construction continues on the Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility
and is on target to be completed in 2006. View a construction update (PDF format), prepared by UC Berkeley Facilities Services. - January 27, 2005
- Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), and the Health Sciences Initiative hosted an event on January 27 to celebrate the recent topping-off of the 11-story structure. More than 120 guests enjoyed speakers, research posters, refreshments, and student-guided tours to nearby Evans Hall for a bird's eye view of the Stanley construction site from a 10th-floor balcony. Read more…
- November 14, 2003
- A site tour and reception, hosted by faculty and campus leaders affiliated with the Health Sciences Initiative and the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), were held to celebrate the end of excavation on the site. Read more…
- May 30, 2003
- California Governor Gray Davis, UC President Richard Atkinson and Berkley Chancellor
Robert Berdahl hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction
of the Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility. Read more…