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QB3 Garage

Berkeley, California - Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 (QB3-Berkeley office: 174 Stanley Hall #3220, Berkeley, CA 94720-3220)

Part of QB3-Berkeley / University of California, Berkeley (QB3 network)

About

The QB3 Garage@Berkeley is a small, on-campus wet lab incubator inside UC Berkeley's Stanley Hall, offering roughly 800 sq ft split into just eight bench-plus-desk stations for early-stage biotech companies. Its real draw is proximity: residents sit in the same building as QB3-Berkeley's eight core research facilities, including cryo-EM (Cal-Cryo), NMR, mass spectrometry, genomics, MacroLab and the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center. It is the original, pre-Bakar Labs UC Berkeley incubator and has graduated companies such as Caribou Biosciences, CinderBio and GenEdit.

Lab Types

Wet LabOffice

Space Options

Dedicated BenchShared Lab

Size range: 800 sq ft (800 total (8 bench stations))

Equipment Included

Centrifuge−80°C Freezer
Lab Bench Space At Each Station
Desk Space At Each Station
Network/Internet Connections
Shared Prep Bench With Standard Lab Facilities
Floor Space For Tenant-Owned Floor-Standing Equipment (Refrigerators, Freezers, Centrifuges)

Shared Facilities

Shared Prep Bench
Shared Floor-Standing Equipment Area
QB3-Berkeley Core Research Facilities (Fee-For-Service)
Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC)
Cal-Cryo Cryo-EM Facility
NMR Facility
Mass Spectrometry Facility
Genomics Facility
MacroLab

Special Features

Located Inside UC Berkeley'S Stanley Hall, Adjacent To Eight QB3-Berkeley Core Research FacilitiesPart Of The QB3 Incubator Network Alongside Bakar BioLabsOnly Eight Stations - Highly Selective, Admission By Application To QB3-BerkeleyAlumni Companies Include Caribou Biosciences, CinderBio And GenEditCurrent Residents Include BioChoric, Maxivio, Teralytic And WattUp EnergyDescendant Of The QB3 Garage@UCSF, The First Startup Incubator In The UC System (2005)

Amenities

Network Connectivity
Desk/Office Space Integrated With Bench
On-Campus UC Berkeley Location In Stanley Hall

Contact & Pricing

Early-Stage Biotech StartupsUC Berkeley Faculty, Alumni, PhD Students And PostdocsLife Sciences CompaniesHealthtech StartupsClimate Tech StartupsAgtech And Foodtech StartupsNanotechnology And Wearables Startups
Visit WebsiteApply / Book a Tourdkhendrix@berkeley.edu

Last updated: Aug 2026

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