Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB)

The Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) is an Army-sponsored University Affiliated Research Center (UARC). The ICB is a uniquely interdisciplinary research alliance led by the University of California, Santa Barbara, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology and partners from the Army and industry.

ICB research is driven by premier faculty working together with graduate students and postdoctoral researchers as interdisciplinary teams of biologists, chemists, physicists, psychologists, physicians and engineers. These teams develop biologically inspired, revolutionary technological innovations in systems and synthetic biology, bio-enabled materials, and cognitive neuroscience.