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Established in 2000, QB3 is one of four Governor Gray Davis Institutes for Science and Innovation established to accelerate discovery and innovation.

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  • Established in 2000, QB3 is one of four Governor Gray Davis Institutes for Science and Innovation established to accelerate discovery and innovation.
  • Number of affiliated UC campuses: 3 (UCB, UCSF, UCSC)
  • Number of faculty affiliates: 215
  • Fellows, American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 25
  • Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science: 32
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators: 22
  • Members, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: 4
  • MacArthur Fellows: 4
  • Members, National Academy of Engineering: 3
  • Members, National Academy of Sciences: 29
  • Recipients, National Medal of Science: 1
  • Nobel Laureates: 2
  • Sloan Research Fellows: 27
  • Patents: UC tops annual list of universities receiving US patents. According to the US Patent Office, in 2005 UC received 390 patents. MIT was second, with 136.
  • Biotechnology industry: UC scientists founded one in three biotech companies in California. These include several of the world's largest biotech companies—Amgen; Applied Biosystems (merged with Invitrogen in 2008); Chiron (acquired by Novartis in 2006); Genentech; and Idec Pharmaceuticals (merged with Biogen in 2003).