QB3 Mission Bay Incubator Network, And An Interview With Douglas Crawford
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QB3 Mission Bay Incubator Network, And An Interview With Douglas Crawford
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has recently made a new addition to their already broad network of innovation. I spoke with Douglas Crawford QB3 Director of Industry Alliances & Associate Executive Director, he described the incubator scene in Mission Bay and the motivations that led to the augmentation of QB3’s services and the formation of QB3 Mission Bay Incubator Network. The new network is a cooperation of QB3, the City of San Francisco and FibroGen. And soon, fortunes willing, by the end of the year, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. will make additional space available for small start-up companies.QB3 is forwarding a multidisciplinary approach to the biological sciences. Drawing on the strengths and resources of three closely situated branches of University of California’s system including UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz, QB3 formally integrates the quantitative sciences to rear a new generation of researchers in the fields of synthetic biology, bioengineering, computational biology, experimental genomics, and proteomics in addition to the more established sciences of biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology.
The initiative has worked perhaps even better than they had hoped. University of California and more specifically QB3 have produced more inventions and discoveries than they actually know what to do with. QB3’s business incubator, QB3 Garage gets its name from the famous garage where the giants of innovation, Hewlett and Packard formed Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California. It is the dream of QB3 that the inclusion of the quantitative sciences will usher in a remarkable generation of technological insight and invention.
QB3 Garage has a strategic goal, which is to invite and excite University of California entrepreneurs to create more young successful companies; the only problem is that it has been full since it opened three years ago. QB3’s Garage program is so effective that they must turn away many requests for tenancy on an almost daily basis. When that happens Douglas tells the applicant about space elsewhere if he knows of any. Other places in the area that sometimes have space are: San Jose BioCenter the Grandparent of California bio incubation; The Molecular Medicine Research Institute (MMRI), where leases are not signed for space but for the number of people involved; The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) like MMRI, while also a research institute, rents extra space if they have it; and MandalMed, a small biotech company located in the SOMA district, also leases out lab space through their incubator Bioscience Laboratories.
Recently QB3 in cooperation with other organizations in the Mission Bay area including the San Francisco Center for Economic Development, and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce has reached an agreement with FibroGen. FibroGen has generously agreed to rent tiny units of space on the same terms that QB3 does for the Garage, and there are hopes that in the coming year, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. will also have some additional space for small start-ups in Mission Bay.
Of the first crop of ten companies, QB3 Garage has had twelve tenants, but of the first ten, four have gone on to close venture rounds, and one was acquired for $25 million by Affymetrix. Douglas explained that there is a class of companies that are created that incubators enable, that could not be created otherwise, that can go on to do great things.
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California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) http://www.qb3.org
QB3 Garage www.qb3.org/garage/home.html
City of San Francisco www.sfgov.org
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. www.labspace.com
FibroGen www.fibrogen.com
University of California www.universityofcalifornia.edu
UC San Francisco www.ucsf.edu
UC Berkeley www.berkeley.edu
UC Santa Cruz www.ucsc.edu
San Jose BioCenter www.sjbiocenter.com
The Molecular Medicine Research Institute (MMRI) www.mmrx.org
The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) www.molsci.org
MandalMed www.mandalmed.com
San Francisco Center for Economic Development www.sfced.org
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=San+Francisco+Chamber+of+Commerce&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Photo Credits: California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and Douglas Crawford
* Douglas Crawford contributed to the composition of this article, and may be contacted at Douglas.Crawford@ucsf.edu.
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