We're identifying innovative solutions that partner algae research with private industry for commercial success.
Our goals can be achieved only through a focused, integrated R&D effort that encompasses biology, chemistry, and engineering. Joining with private sector partners will propel research discoveries into energy and economic solutions.
San Diego is home to leading experts on algal genetics and physiology. We're also uniquely located between the Pacific Ocean and California's Imperial Valley, where there's plenty of room to grow acres of algae. Through SD-CAB, science unites with industry to apply lab discoveries to real world solutions for renewable energy and a revitalized economy.
The New Biofuel Is Green
What's so great about growing sea algae in California's Imperial Valley? Renewable energy, new jobs, and more
Benefits of Algae
SD-CAB's scientists are building an algae industry that will provide green jobs in a struggling community. Algae is good for our society, environment, and economy.
Pioneering Research
San Diego's world-renowned scientific powerhouses partner top researchers with private industry to transform lab discoveries into global solutions.
SD-CAB NEWS
- SD-CAB and algae, a super-green solution
- UC San Diego announces the newly formed San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology. Get the details.
- Virtual visit
- See how scientists are farming algae in gigantic raceway ponds in the Imperial Valley.
- Algae - a unique fuel solution
- Discover why algae is the alternative fuel of the future.
- Latest and Complete List of News Stories
- San Diego researchers and investors lead biofuels effort
