In today’s episode, Darlene and Bruce talk with David Schaffer, the incoming Director of QB3 (the life science consortium of UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Santa Cruz), on the origins of QB3, its role in generating research in some of the most challenging areas in biotech today, the challenges of making life sciences research available to companies and eventually to the public, and QB3's place at the center of the Bay Area’s biotech ecosystem.