Chiromo Library is the Faculty of Science and Technology library.  It is about 2 KM from the Nairobi Central Business District off Riverside Drive and near the old Chiromo Mortuary. It has a sitting capacity of 700 and 12 Study carrels for graduate students and researchers.  It stocks approximately 100,000 hard copy books and bound journals. In addition, it has access to over 70,000 e-books and 50,000 e-journals.

The Department was founded as a virtual research centre to train postgraduate students at MSc and PhD level in biosciences (biotechnology & Bioinformatics) in the academic year 2005/2006.  The goal of the program is to develop capacity and manpower for the development of Biotechnology.  To date CEBIB is serviced by academic staff from School of Biological Sciences (SBS), School of Computing and Informatics (SCI), School of Mathematics (SOM), Department of Biochemistry and Department of Physics all from the College of Biological Sciences (CBPS) as well as those from the College of Agricu