The Biotechnology Industry in Oakland and
the East Bay is part of the world’s most vibrant biotech
clusters in the world. In the Oakland region, the biotech cluster is
comprised of a variety of key institutions and companies, including
Novartis, Bayer Healthcare, Amyris Biotechnologies Healthcare, Children’s
Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI), Kaiser Permanente’s Division of
Research as well as the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory.
Recent grants from industry and government to these institutions have resulted in Oakland, Berkeley, and the East Bay becoming the nexus for research, development, and commercialization in treating and preventing human disease, as well as pushing out the frontier in the research for alternative source of energy through biology.
