World-Class Research Institutions
The Sacramento Region is home to world-class research institutions such as UC Davis and UC Davis Medical Center.UC Davis and UC Davis Medical Center highlights:
- One of the world’s premier life sciences research institutions with biotechnology, medical, veterinary and agricultural programs.
- Centers of excellence which encourage collaborative public/private research and ties with private industry.
- Academic programs and applied technology initiatives provide biotech research and development capabilities.
- Produces more Ph.D. life scientists than any other university in the nation.
- Forefront of the latest discoveries and best treatments such as the nationally-renowned, world-class research center for the study of autism, the M.I.N.D. Institute.
- 421 million in recent research funding, currently ranking 14th among U.S. universities by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- NSF funding for the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology, serves as the lead educational institution in a 10-campus national effort in this science.
- Ranked among the top medical schools in the nation for research and primary care, according to U.S News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools in America list.
- Facility expansion has resulted in more than 3 million square feet of buildings on an 140-acre campus, including a new $95 million Genome and Biomedical Sciences Building to house a critical mass of researchers and foster leading-edge research in genomics, bioinformatics, biomedical engineering and others.
- Inland California’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center status.
- Research center to study how lasers and other light-based technologies can enhance medicine and a pioneer in the use of telemedicine technology.
- Home to the California National Primate Research Center, the only one of its kind in the UC system.
- American River College
- North Valley and Mountain Biotechnology Center
- University of California, Davis (UCD) and UCD Health System
- Biological Sciences
- Biotechnology Program
- Center for Genetics and Development
- Biochemical Engineering Program
- California Institute for Food and Agricultural Research
- Center for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens
- UC Life Sciences Informatics Program
- W.M. Keck Center for Structural Biology
- Center for Neuroscience
- Center for Population Biology
- UC Davis Genome Center
- HQ for UC Biotechnology Research & Education Program
- School of Veterinary Medicine
- California Regional Primate Research Center (CRPRC) Center for Comparative Medicine
- Mouse Biology Program
- Murine Targeted Genomics Lab
- Veterinary Genetics Laboratory
- Western Institute for Food Safety and Security
- UCD Cancer Center / National Cancer Institute (NCI) General Clinical Research Center at Sacramento VA Medical Center
- M.I.N.D. Institute
- Genome Center
- National Science Foundation Center for Biophotonics at UC Davis
- Western Human Nutrition Research Center (USDA/ARS)
- California State University (CSU), Sacramento
- Molecular Biology Interdisciplinary Group (MBIG)
- Mercy General Hospital, Sacramento
- Mercy Heart Institute
- Mercy Stroke Center
- Mercy Cancer Research
- Solano Community College Two-year associate degrees and certificate programs for individuals seeking employment with bioscience manufacturing companies
- Sutter Health
- Sutter Institutes for Medical Research
- Sutter Heart Institute
- Sutter Orthopedic Institute
- Sutter Cancer Center
- Northern California Shriner's Hospital
Others within a 45 mile radius from the Region:
- Veteran's Administration Northern California Health Care System
- General Clinical Research Center
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories
- SANDIA National Laboratories, Livermore
Selected Sacramento region photos by Tom Myer's Photography. More Sacramento images can be seen at www.tommyersphotography.com