Berkeley Haas Dean Ann Harrison on her days as a globetrotting development economist and her new book
Why subscription services can yield the most profits for companies
Berkeley web3 and crypto summit tackles financial inclusion, climate issue
David Schaffer: Research that takes risks must be supported
QB3 Welcomes David Schaffer as its New Executive Director
Berkeley’s Bakar BioEnginuity Hub opens its doors
Bakar Labs to award lab space to startups developing gene tech for cystic fibrosis
David Schaffer announced as director of the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
Berkeley SkyDeck expands to Europe with Milan startup accelerator
Four innovative faculty members awarded campus’s 2022 Bakar Prize
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub awards $21 million to 21 Berkeley researchers
Engineering a hungry bacterium to protect public health
Removing a potential MRI risk - literally
Putting a new roof over our heads
A “living treatment” may ease a severe skin disease
Making lasers more efficient, versatile and compact
A Different Spin on Data Processing
Reinventing the Wheel
Berkeley startup aims to be a game changer in autoimmune disease therapy
Microbatteries that Make Sense
Biowalls to Spare the Air
Big Squeeze: Highly sensitive NV-DAC sensor stands up to enormous pressure
Silencing the Silencer: a new strategy to fight cancer
EarEEG – Earbuds that read your mind
First-ever auction of NFT based on Nobel Prize nets UC Berkeley $50,000
Bakar BioEnginuity Hub: Berkeley’s bold new home for innovation, entrepreneurship
Spin-TOF: A One-of-a-Kind Tool for Studying Spin-Dependent Electronic Properties
Sharing Sensitive Data without Showing it
Contraceptive researcher Polina Lishko receives MacArthur “genius” award
New rankings: UC Berkeley is the No. 2 school in the world for entrepreneurs
‘Berkeley Changemaker’ course turns self-discovery into tool for change
Light Shows the Way to Build “Smart” Infrastructure
Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grant awardees announced
Winner of campus’s new Bakar Prize hopes to harness sun’s power
A new test can see -- almost literally -- infectious bacteria
Miniature Sensors Can Detect Potential Dangers of CO2
Mining with Microbe “Animal Magnetism”
A Nano Strategy Overcomes Barriers to Plant Genetic Engineering
Cal Students Launch Resource 19 to Connect Creators with Hospitals in Need
SCET launches COVID-RX program to help companies adapt
5 Berkeley SkyDeck startups that might change the way we live
New helmet design can deal with sports’ twists and turns
UC rings out 2019 with its 20th CRISPR patent
Berkeley SkyDeck spreads culture of entrepreneurship to state capitol
AI-powered Berkeley robot among Popular Science’s ‘Best of What’s New'
UC now holds largest CRISPR-Cas9 patent portfolio
University of California awarded 15th U.S. CRISPR-Cas9 patent
CRISPR portfolio now at 14 and counting
Seven new Bakar Fellows already are making an impact
Water harvester makes it easy to quench your thirst in the desert
UC receives its 11th U.S. patent for CRISPR-Cas9
Newly granted CRISPR patents boost UC’s U.S. portfolio to 10
Eighth CRISPR patent issued by U.S.; seven more soon to come
Former Haas dean named new campus innovation officer
Government funding increasingly fuels innovation
GlaxoSmithKline taps UC’s CRISPR expertise to speed drug discovery
Berkeley’s renegade history fuels its rise to the top in startup competition
Largest, fastest array of microscopic ‘traffic cops’ for optical communications
New CRISPR-powered device detects genetic mutations in minutes
UC awarded third CRISPR patent, expanding its gene-editing portfolio
Gene Therapy gets a Boost
Highlighting Disease by Making the Body Transparent
Beyond Hormonal Birth Control
U.S. patent office indicates it will issue third CRISPR patent to UC
Literally Switching Strategies to Handle the Internet Data Flood
Turning cars into robot traffic managers
Patent awarded for DNA-targeting complex at heart of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
New test rapidly identifies antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’
Xu, Titov receive million-dollar New Innovator awards
CZ Biohub awards $13.7 million for new collaborative health research
UC Berkeley startup accelerator gets a boost from venture fund
Urban Resilience: Hiding in Plain Sight
CRISPR-EZ: Improving on a Good Thing
Ramping up Production of Vital Industrial Products
Medical Exams: There’s an App for That
Smart Materials: Getting the Sun to Pull Down the Shade
Mechanical Engineering To Aid Back Surgery
Haas Startup Squad connects MBA students to Skydeck
Computer Vision to Protect Patients — and Budgets
Three innovators elected to National Academy of Inventors
New robots can see into their future
Blockchain Lab receives campus-first Bitcoin donation
Doctoral student wins Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award
Berkeley startup to train robots like puppets
Fed up, two UC Berkeley students launch tool to spot Twitter bots
$1.5 million ‘New Innovator’ grants to two young faculty members
Visionary Award honors three Berkeley intellects shaping the future
Student-designed medical device wins Fast Company award
UC Berkeley Sutardja Center launches new lab to take on $1 trillion meat industry
Biomedical startups featured in the New York Times
European Patent Office to grant UC a broad patent on CRISPR-Cas9
In a sample of blood, researchers probe for cancer clues
UC Berkeley, power company Enel launch innovation hub
Physiological Changes Tracked Moment to Moment
Trading in the Scalpel for a Sharper Blade
“Editing” New Metamaterials Brings Light Into Focus
New Bakar Fellows director sees Berkeley’s entrepreneurial spirit in faculty
Crowdfunding expands innovation financing to underserved regions
Green light for Berkeley: Feds move on $11 million for S.F. transit innovation
Berkeley innovators named fellows of National Academy of Inventors
In startup sweepstakes, it’s Cal vs. Stanford
$4.6 million grant to improve how automated cars, drones interact with humans
UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence
UC Berkeley artificial intelligence (AI) expert Stuart Russell will lead a new Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, launched this week.
Study: Berkeley, UC startups vital to California’s economy
As a vital engine of California’s economy, UC Berkeley has been generating startups at an ever-faster rate in recent years and stimulating more and more companies and jobs.
Six at Berkeley receive new 30 Under 30 Award for global food crisis work
Six of 30 young people honored today by the University of California for their innovative work helping to solve the global food crisis are from the Berkeley campus.
President Obama awards National Medals to Alivisatos, Hu
President Barack Obama yesterday honored two UC Berkeley faculty members at the White House, awarding chemist Paul Alivisatos with the National Medal of Science and electrical engineer Chenming Hu with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Life with machine: Robot relationships get real
Berkeley’s renowned programs in artificial intelligence and robotics involve scores of professors in the College of Engineering. Their aim is to create machines with the intelligence to better serve and work with human beings.
Aduro Biotech helps launch new immunotherapy, vaccine effort
UC Berkeley cancer immunologists are teaming up with colleagues working on infectious disease to create a new Immunotherapeutics and Vaccine Research Initiative.
Three new Signatures Innovation Fellows announced
Three faculty members have been selected as 2016-17 Signatures Innovation Fellows, receiving as much as $100,000 per year each for up to two years to pursue commercially promising data science and software projects.
Making waves: Turning ocean power into electricity
Ocean waves have vast energy potential. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates the total wave energy resource along the United States coastline at 2,640 terawatts per year. One terawatt can supply more than 93,000 typical U.S. homes with power annually.
“Deep Learning”: A Giant Step for Robots
Bakar Fellow Pieter Abbeel studies deep learning in robots. The robot BRETT (Berkeley Robot for Elimination of Tedious Tasks) has mastered a range of skills, including folding laundry, knot-tying, and basic assembly.
A New Recipe for Construction
Bakar Fellow Ronald Rael is advancing a type of 3-D printing that could add more beauty, variety and sustainability to building designs.
How Many Lasers can You Fit into a Shoebox?
Bakar Fellow Holger Müller is redesigning an instrument known as an atom interferometer, capable of making extremely precise measurements of distance and gravity.
A new-generation exoskeleton helps the paralyzed to walk
Until recently, being paralyzed from the waist down meant using a wheelchair to get around - UC Berkeley’s Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory has been working to change that.
White House renews commitment to earthquake early warning system designed at UC Berkeley
The Obama administration and members of Congress today renewed their commitment to funding an earthquake early warning system along the Pacific Coast.
Savvy Software Lightens MRI Burden
The Bakar Fellows Program supports Michael Lustig’s collaborations with clinicians and industry to speed adoption of the new MRI imaging strategies.
Let them see you sweat: What new wearable sensors can reveal from perspiration
A new sensor developed at UC Berkeley can be made into “smart” wristbands or headbands that provide continuous, real-time analysis of the chemicals in sweat.
Super-Resolution Microscopy in “Living Color”
Bakar Fellow Ke Xu’s imaging technology allows researchers to distinguish between interacting proteins with exceptional color and image resolutions.
Advance improves cutting and pasting with CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing
UC Berkeley researchers have made a major improvement in CRISPR-Cas9 technology that achieves an unprecedented success rate of 60 percent when replacing a short stretch of DNA with another.
Science magazine names CRISPR ‘Breakthrough of the Year’
In its year-end issue, the journal Science chose the CRISPR genome-editing technology invented at UC Berkeley 2015’s Breakthrough of the Year.
Three scientists elected to National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors has elected three UC Berkeley faculty members to its ranks in honor of their innovation and creativity leading to patented inventions that have made a tangible impact on society.
Signatures Innovation Program seeks faculty pursuing innovative research in data science and software areas
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, in partnership with CITRIS and BIDS, will be hosting an info session for prospective applicants to the Signatures Innovation Fellows Program on Wednesday, December 9.
Engineers give a girl a hand
Life-changing technology can often come at a price that keeps it out of reach for many people, but a project to develop a 3D-printed prosthetic hand for a child is providing engineers at UC Berkeley a chance to change that.
Berkeley mathematician, neutrino physicists awarded Breakthrough prizes
UC Berkeley mathematician Ian Agol and a team of neutrino physicists led by UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab physicist Kam-Biu Luk are among this year’s Breakthrough Prize recipients announced Sunday, Nov. 8, at a star-studded eventbroadcast live on the National Geographic Channel.
Urban Infrastructure - Making Cities Smarter
Alexei Pozdnoukhov, a Signatures Innovation Fellow, leads research to use cellular data to aid traffic planning and operations. Fully developed, the technology could aid both traffic control and planning to keep pace with changes in transportation habits.
Researchers talk new diagnostic methods at global tech conference
Four UC Berkeley engineering professors took part in the World Economic Forum’s ninth Annual Meeting of the New Champions, a global conference on innovation, science and technology held last week in Dalian, China. Ab
Skydeck-backed startup’s digital stethoscope green-lighted by FDA
A digital stethoscope startup founded by three young UC Berkeley graduates and nurtured by Skydeck, the campus accelerator, has won federal permission to enter the market.
Entrepreneur and alumna Rikky Muller named a top Innovator under 35
For her work in the field of Engineering and Medicine, UC Berkeley alumnus Dr. Rikky Muller, co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies, Inc., has been recognized as an Honoree on the MIT Technology Review's list of Global Innovators Under 35.
Streamlined cockroaches inspire highly maneuverable robots
Chen Li, a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, studied the maneuvering ability of cockroaches with rounded shells and saw that their simple streamlined shape allowed them to easily roll and slip through gaps in a clutter of objects, such as grass and leaves on a forest floor.
Smartphone video microscope automates detection of parasites in blood
A UC Berkeley-led research team has developed a new mobile phone microscope that uses video to automatically detect and quantify infection by parasitic worms in a drop of blood. This technology could help revive efforts to eradicate debilitating diseases in Africa by providing critical information for health providers in the field.
UC Berkeley launches the Signatures Innovation Fellows Program
In an effort to support UC Berkeley faculty interested in commercial applications of their research, UC Berkeley is launching a new program in the data science and software areas. The new Signatures Innovation Fellows program was recently established with the generous support of UC Berkeley alumnus Bobby Yazdani.
With a tug and a twist, new chameleon-like material changes color
Taking inspiration from nature, UC Berkeley engineers have created an ultra-thin film that can shift colors as easily as a chameleon’s skin when pulled or twisted.
The Invisible Comes to Light
Laura Waller is working on computational imaging methods for quantitative phase microscopy, which enables one to map the shape and/or density of invisible samples in a non-invasive way. Her group is developing simple experimental architectures and efficient post-processing algorithms for phase recovery, applied in a variety of scientific and industrial settings.
Welcome to the World of Wearable Electronics
Ana Claudia Arias has developed a technology to print lightweight electronic circuits and devices onto thin films.
Breaking the sound barrier in deaf communication
Thibault Duchemin grew up as the only hearing person in a family of four. He has always understood the communication challenges that were a daily part of their lives. Now, he’s developed Transcense – a mobile app that aims to end some of the professional and social isolation caused by hearing loss.
Bakar research fellows make their case in Silicon Valley
Sixteen faculty members from UC Berkeley’s Bakar Fellows Program recently took their research ideas to Sand Hill Road — the heart of Silicon Valley’s venture capital community — for a coveted meeting with some of the nation’s top angel investors.
Blind lead the way in brave new world of tactile technology
Imagine feeling a slimy jellyfish, a prickly cactus or map directions on your iPad display. Virtual textured touchscreens are where tactile technology is headed. New research has found that people are faster at navigating tactile technology when using both hands and several fingers. Moreover, blind people in the study outmaneuvered their sighted counterparts.
Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014: Launching new generations of social innovators
The annual Big Ideas@Berkeley competition continues to spur Berkeley students to change the world via life-changing innovations. Last week, the program honored this year’s winning projects with an awards celebration at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.
New ideas and technology spreading from campus faster than ever
Backed by a vibrant startup culture that serves as the engine of economic growth for much of the Bay Area, UC Berkeley has established several new programs that support the translation of university research into real-world solutions.
Corporate-funded academic inventions spur increased innovation, analysis says
Academic research sponsored by industry has a strong track record of leading to innovative patents and licenses, challenging assumptions that corporate support skews science toward inventions that are less accessible.
Indian company licenses Berkeley Lab invention for arsenic-free water
Ashok Gadgil set out to solve an insidious public health problem afflicting South Asia, arsenic contamination of groundwater. He knew the hard part would not just be inventing the technology but also ensuring a way to sustain its long-term use on a large scale.
Ashok Gadgil inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame
Dr. Ashok Gadgil is inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) for his water disinfecting device. The NIHF honors those who are responsible for the great technological advances that make human, social and economic progress possible.
Using Carbon to Control the Light
Feng Wang is studying how electrical fields modulate the optical properties of a number of materials. The flip of a light switch – a nano-scale light switch – may some day dramatically boost the speed of data transmission, from streaming movies to accelerating the most data-intense computation.
“Ballistic transport ” – it sounds like a blast into the future
Felix Fischer and fellow researchers are fabricating strips of carbon only one-atom thick and less than 15 atoms wide, the aim is to create molecular-scale “wires” capable of carrying information thousands of times faster than is possible today.
Pinning down malevolent cancer cells
Lydia Sohn is developing a new technique based on microtechnology to distinguish between different types of circulating tumor cells also known as CTC’s . She hopes this more sensitive approach will help clinicians learn which CTC’s are most prone to lead to metastasis.
Announcing the California Report Card
Californians can now use smartphones to grade their state on timely issues. Developed by the office of Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom with the CITRIS Data and Democracy Initiative at UC Berkeley.
Turkeys inspire smartphone-capable early warning system for toxins
Bioengineers at UC Berkeley see inspiration in turkeys for a new type of biosensor that changes color when exposed to chemical vapors. This feature makes the sensors valuable detectors of toxins or airborne pathogens.
Berkeley Researchers Develop Highly Sensitive Tactile Sensors for Robotics and Other Applications
From the world of nanotechnology we’ve gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we’re on the verge of electronic whiskers.
Symposium spotlights clean-technology solutions
Milestone could help magnets end era of computer transistors
Biochemist Jennifer Doudna hailed for discovery of ‘holy grail’ of genetic engineering
Jennifer Doudna, Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology at UC Berkeley was recently featured in the Independent for her work on Crispr, which has taken the world of genetics by storm.
3-D gesture-recognition chip could be a boon to wearable gadgets
Researchers developing brain-controlled prosthetic devices
Berkeley Lab Scientist Invents Portable DNA Extraction Kit, Helps Haiti
Research Brief: Auto lubricant could rev up medical imaging
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have built a device that could speed up medical imaging without breaking the bank. The key ingredient? An engine lubricant called molybdenum disulfide, or MoS2, which has been sold in auto parts shops for decades.
College launches new energy engineering major
The College of Engineering has launched a new major—driven largely by undergraduate interest—that focuses in a comprehensive way on the generation, transmission and storage of energy, with additional courses on energy policy.
Research Brief: Technology could bring high-end solar to the masses
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an inexpensive new way to grow thin films of a material prized in the semiconductor and photovoltaic industries, an achievement that could bring high-end solar cells within reach of consumer pocketbooks.
Paper-thin e-skin responds to touch, holds promise for sensory robotics and interactive environments
A new milestone by engineers at UC Berkeley can help robots become more touchy-feely, literally.
The Fold-Up Boat
Anton Willis (M. Arch '07) has reinvented kayaks for urban dwellers with his inception and production of "the world's first origami kayak." Willis launched Oru Kayak on Kickstarter with a successful campaign resulting in 473 boat orders and $43,806 in pledges.
Five new Bakar Fellows pursue path to marketplace
Five UC Berkeley scientists eager to take their lab-bench discoveries into the marketplace have been awarded Bakar Fellowships to help them achieve their goals.
First Patent Granted for Research at Energy Biosciences Institute
Research on improved sugar transport for biofuel production has been recognized with the first patent to be granted to the Energy Biosciences Institute since the collaboration’s establishment in 2007.
Students think big ideas in tackling societal problems
Closing out almost nine months of intense competition, UC Berkeley’s annual Big Ideas contest honored this year’s crop of outstanding social projects last week during a special awards celebration at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.
Packing Power
Tanja Cuk is testing how to optimize new devices for both power delivery and energy storage. Her focus is an alternative to conventional batteries, called a “supercapacitor,” which could deliver more power than current batteries.
UC Berkeley selected to build NASA’s next space weather satellite
NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to determine how Earth’s weather affects weather at the edge of space, in hopes of improving forecasts of extreme “space weather” that can disrupt global positioning satellites (GPS) and radio communications.
Creating a New Trail to Solve an Old Problem
Ants normally distinguish friend from foe by detecting colony-specific molecules called pheromones that coat their bodies. Neil Tsutsui has identified the recognition pheromones and other chemical signals, and has shown in experiments that the ants’ behavior can be tweaked by exposing them to identical, environmentally harmless synthetic pheromones.
Introducing the Dreambox
The Dreambox, a fabrication vending machine designed by industrial engineering and operations research Senior Will Drevno along with Haas Berkeley alumni David Pastewka and Richard Berwick, uses off-the-shelf fused deposition processes to print plastics as 3D objects.
3-D printer wows students at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley alumni, David Pastewka and Richard Berwick, along with a current senior Will Drevno were featured on ABC7 News for their business and invention – the Dreambox.
Berkeley-led consortium gets $3.4 million for transit research
Researchers at the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC), a research consortium led by UC Berkeley that includes the UC and California State University systems, have received a $3.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
UC Berkeley chemistry professor Fréchet wins 2013 Japan Prize
Emeritus chemistry and CBE professor Jean Fréchet, a Professor of the Graduate School, has received a 2013 Japan Prize, one of the most prestigious international awards in science and technology.
USAID invests up to $20 million in UC Berkeley’s global development initiatives
UC Berkeley’s leadership in developing innovative and practical solutions for global problems is being recognized in a $20 million cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Sather Center targets transatlantic research
With several of its namesake’s descendants on hand for the occasion, UC Berkeley’s Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study is celebrating its launch today (Thursday) with a two-day campus conference.
Chancellor’s final back-to-school briefing has the ring of success
For his final back-to-school briefing before he leaves office, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau highlighted the University's successes, including a "boom" in research funding, innovation, and collaboration.
UC Berkeley Skydeck Welcomes New Director, Gears Up for Fall
UC Berkeley Skydeck, a startup accelerator, is soaring to new heights with the appointment of a new full-time executive director,Jeff Burton, a member of the founding team of video game maker Electronic Arts.
Two UC Berkeley grads launch printable battery startup
With moral and monetary support from UC Berkeley and UC’s Office of the President, two UC grads – Christine Ho and Brooks Kincaid – have formed a company to create ‘printable’ batteries that are efficient, environmentally friendly and could be made as small as a postage stamp. The start-up is a tribute to the campus’s entrepreneurial environment and its innovative students.
Ashok Gadgil gets $100,000 award for global innovation
The Lemelson-MIT Program has awarded Ashok Gadgil, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. The award recognizes Gadgil, who is known for his work on affordable water disinfection systems and fuel-efficient cookstoves for developing nations, for “his steady pursuit to blend research, invention and humanitarianism for broad social impact.”
Voting-scenario startup wins CITRIS Big Ideas prize
Web-based startup Politify earned $20,000 for its first-place finish in the information technology category of the 2012 Big Ideas @ Berkeley innovation contest.
QB3, Pfizer expand support for translational research
Renewal spans four UC campuses, builds on success of 2009 agreement
New research suggests cap and trade programs do not provide sufficient incentives for energy technology innovation
According to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these programs are not enough to induce the private sector to develop innovative technologies to address climate change.
QB3 bioscience startups going strong at six-year mark
Incubator entrepreneurs launch 60 companies, generate 280 jobs, raise $226 million in follow-on funding
Berkeley gears up for new era of enterprise with Skydeck incubator
Skydeck forms the hub of Berkeley's efforts to foster a new generation of young entrepreneurs and forge a hotbed of collaborative innovation and enterprise in the East Bay.
Climate Change and Business Research Initiative Gains Traction
Environmentalists and corporations don’t always see eye-to-eye on climate change. But the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative has shown that the two sides’ objectives can not only co-exist, but be mutually beneficial.
Berkeley Engineering launches collaboration with Shanghai innovation hub
The College of Engineering at Berkeley is partnering with the Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park to develop a platform for expanding industrial and academic research collaborations in Asia and fostering global learning opportunities with Berkeley students.
UC Berkeley start-up creates energy-efficient buildings
In 2005, Charlie Huizenga and two UC Berkeley MBA graduates started Adura Technologies to install energy efficient wireless lighting systems in buildings. Their technology, based on innovations by UC Berkeley architects and engineers, has significantly reduced lighting costs in more than 2 million square feet of public and private buildings, including UC Berkeley’s undergraduate library.
UC Berkeley's Ali Javey Winner of APEC Science Prize for Innovation Research and Education
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu awarded the 2011 APEC Science Prize to UC Berkeley Professor Ali Javey in San Francisco today. Professor Javey is well known for developing low-cost, flexible, and lightweight photovoltaic cells. He has also developed transistor arrays that use a fraction of the power of conventional silicon transistors.
GPS innovation wins DOT wireless competition
Prof-led team's project lets cars communicate with each other.
Deloitte offers to turn QB3 into “innovation ecosystem”
The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), which has branches at UC Berkeley, UCSF and UC Santa Cruz, will work with Deloitte to improve the institute’s efforts to convert bioscience innovation into a driver for jobs, companies and improved health in California.
QB3, Deloitte collaborate to drive California bioscience innovation
The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) has entered into a collaboration with Deloitte to help the institute in its efforts to convert bioscience innovation into a driver for jobs, companies and improved health in California.
QB3 symposium highlights job creation through innovation
The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) celebrates a decade of driving the bioeconomy and spells out its goal of helping the state foster science and innovation to benefit society.
California Team to Receive up to $122 Million for Energy Innovation Hub to Develop Method to Produce Fuels from Sunlight
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman announced a new award of up to $122 million to establish an Energy Innovation Hub aimed at developing revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight.
UC Berkeley chemist, biologist, entrepreneur awarded $500,000 Lemelson–MIT Prize
Chemical biologist Carolyn Bertozzi will receive this year's $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, which honors inventors and entrepreneurs. Bertozzi, a professor of chemistry, has developed innovative chemical reactions that can be performed on biological molecules, living cells and even in live animals without harming them.
Biotech incubator opens its doors at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley's QB3 will launch a biotech incubator on May 6, hoping to duplicate the success of a similar incubator at QB3's Mission Bay outpost. UC Berkeley grad Wesley Chang, CEO of the start-up Aperys, LLC, is the first tenant of the QB3 Garage@Berkeley.