Another strong cohort this month with teams from across the Bay Area (UC Berkeley, UCSF, Stanford, SFSU) and beyond, including UNR, Harvard Medical School and three Yale-affiliated teams! One standout team that’s well poised for Nationals is KovaDx. The team was also recently award a summer-long Blackstone LaunchPad powered by Read more
The Bay Area Node took the show on the road…metaphorically speaking, to train sixteen UC Davis teams in a special edition of NSF I-Corps! Technologies ranged from machine vision for seed sorting to a specially-engineered supplement mitigating methane emissions from cows. Teams ranged from a Chemistry professor working with tea Read more
The Biodesign Immersion Experience (BIE) is an NIH-sponsored 8-week summer program focusing on the critical aspect of translating bioengineering innovations from the lab out into the world. Fellows include top UC Berkeley undergraduate/graduate students and clinical clients from UCSF. Leading the program is Amy Herr–rock star UC Berkeley BioE professor Read more
This #FemaleFounderFriday, we celebrate UC Berkeley BioE alum Charvi Shetty and the value of persistence! Aluna (formerly Knox Medical Diagnostics) was one of our early UC LAUNCH Accelerator teams and has been steadily building through multiple grants (NSF SBIR/STTR) and other accelerators (CITRIS Foundry, IndieBio, Plug&Play, QB3, MassChallenge). The company’s Read more
Recent Berkeley Haas Student Venture Fund awardee NorthStar was a standout in our June NSF I-Corps course. NorthStar’s team came together through Kurt Beyer’s MBA295A: Entrepreneurship course. Team members include Omonivie Agboghidi (MPH 20, 3rd yr MD student), Phil Walker (4th yr MD/PhD student) and Lucas Kabs Yin Kim Sea Read more
What happens when a Chemistry PhD student from Jennifer Doudna’s lab wants to explore entrepreneurship? Why, he heads up the hill to Haas, of course! Marco Lobba had heard about Kurt Beyer’s 295A Entrepreneurship course and showed up for the first evening with a stunning idea using new techniques from Read more
This #FemaleFounderFriday, we celebrate Berkeley Haas #EWMBA ’20, Rory Stanton, founder of Aila Health! Aila Health brings AI-driven precision health to patients in their homes. The need for remote management has grown exponentially, as patients and health systems self-manage COVID-19 and other conditions at home. Rory is a case study in Read more
Blockchain, AI & Faculty research from across UC Berkeley (BioE, I-School) were the big themes for this month’s cohort. 20 teams from Cal, Stanford, MIT, UCSC and Johns Hopkins brought their A-games and were rewarded with some stellar insights worth sharing: Stanford’s Biodock AI: “Interviews are equally if not more Read more
Incoming Berkeley Haas MBA students are already embodying the Defining Principle of going #BeyondYourself. When we announced a special COVID-19 Startup Marketplace project with UC Berkeley BioEngineering Professor Kevin Healy’s lab, three Haas admits from around the quickly answered the call. The team is being led by UCB-UCSF Masters in Translational Read more
