Research
Investigators - Meet the 60 faculty members affiliated with CEND
Projects - Learn about faculty research across a range of disciplines and diseases, from dengue and giardia to schistosomiasis and tuberculosis.
Facilities - Through CEND, Berkeley investigators have access to cutting edge facilities for x-ray crystallography, siRNA screening, high-throughput genomics & proteomics, and more.
Funding - Center competitions are announced throughout the year. View current and upcoming competitions, and read about funded projects.CEND: Bringing "Big Science" to Global Health
Berkeley pioneered the paradigm of large-scale, interdisciplinary, international research in the 1930s. Starting with the cyclotron at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab—which paved the way to nuclear medicine—and more recently as part of the Human Genome Project, the U.C. has always played a leading role in "Big Science" projects of the 20th century. These efforts have transformed the practice of medicine and the conduct of research throughout the world. Yet in the new millennium, we face the much larger problems of global poverty, rampant infectious disease, and climate change. This is why the Berkeley campus has launched a Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND).
As with the "Big Science" projects of the 20th century, CEND is facilitating large-scale, integrated methods for discovery, to promote rapid innovation in emerging and neglected diseases on the Berkeley campus. Shared research resources are essential for this endeavor, by enabling access to technologies that are too expensive for any one lab to support—or too specialized for a single lab to build and maintain. Because UC Berkeley has been particularly effective in establishing such technologies, our scientists have been able to carry out otherwise impossible research.
But cultivating innovation requires more than just technology and brilliant minds. It also relies on a rich environment that fosters collaboration, training, and intellectual exchange. CEND's research agenda is advanced through multi-laboratory "super-group" meetings, seminars, action-oriented working groups. The Center's activities help to create and maintain a vibrant human network, connecting people who would ordinarily not meet and creating opportunities for investigators to conceive and carry out high-impact, innovative discovery research.
