MISSION STATEMENT CSUPERB provides vision, leadership, and support for biotechnology education and research throughout the CSU to promote biotechnology in California.

CSUPERB is a multi-campus program created in 1987 designed to channel system-wide resources and catalyze interdisciplinary, inter-campus, synergistic endeavors involving Biology and Chemistry departments as well as Engineering, Agriculture and Computer Science. The interdisciplinary nature of biotechnology includes areas such as bioengineering; agricultural biotechnology; human pharmaceutical and health applications; environmental and natural resource biotechnology; molecular ecology; marine biotechnology; and bioinformatics and computational biology as they are applied to molecular questions. CSUPERB also recognizes basic research in the molecular and cellular life sciences as contributing to biotechnology.

CSUPERB is composed of faculty, staff, administrators and corporate officers in a multi-level structure.

CSUPERB serves as the official liaison between the CSU and industry, government, the Congressional Biotechnology Caucus, and the public arena in all biotechnological matters.