The Bode lab in the Biomedical Research Facility on the UC San Diego La Jolla campus is in the center of the San Diego Research Mesa and surrounded by world-renowned research institutes like The Scripps Research Institute, the Salk Institute, the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology or J. Craig Venter Institute.
The San Diego Research Mesa is also a biotech industry hub with proximity to companies like Illumina, MoBio, IDT, Synthetic Genomics, HLI or life technologies.
Most research institutes and biotech companies on the San Diego Research Mesa are within a radius of less than 2 miles from the Bode lab, further expanding access to the world's leading scientists, knowlegde, skills and technology.