Established in October 2007, the Center for Quantitative Sciences in Biomedicine (CQSB) is a formal, multidisciplinary research center at North Carolina State University. Its mission is to catalyze and facilitate research projects in the biomedical sciences whose success requires integrated collaborations among scientists in the quantitative and biological disciplines. The CQSB is devoted to identifying such projects, to assembling the expertise required to address them from both within and outside the University, and to leveraging such research to provide a basis for unique graduate and post-graduate training at the interface of the quantitative and biomedical sciences.