Research in the Life Sciences Division contributes to strategic Berkeley Lab and National efforts to increase understanding of bio-fuel production and bioremediation, cancer and the microenvironment, DNA repair, radiation biology, genome structure and function, neurodegenerative diseases and structural biology. This is accomplished by developing multi-disciplinary, multi-divisional and multi-institutional teams to approach problems of scale and/or technical complexity that can best be accomplished in a National Laboratory environment. Laboratory scientists participate actively in these multi-disciplinary programs while maintaining outstanding independent research programs in areas of Divisional strategic emphasis. Life Sciences program project scale research programs in the science theme areas of Cancer & Radiation, Radiation & Instrumentation, Genome Dynamics, and Bioenergy/GTL are featured on this website.
Divisional research is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), primarily in the Office of Science; the National Institute of Health (NIH); the Department of Defense; NASA; and industrial, national and international collaborators.