QB3 is the University of California’s hub for innovation and entrepreneurship in life science. The institute supports UC researchers and empowers California founders to launch startup companies and partner with industry. QB3 has a 20-year track record of spinning off innovative endeavors such as the venture capital firms Mission Bay Capital and Medtech Venture Partners; several incubators, including QB3@953 (now part of MBC Biolabs); and a health technology initiative, the UCSF Rosenman Institute. QB3 founded and operates Bakar Labs, the incubator at UC Berkeley’s Bakar BioEnginuity Hub. Companies affiliated with QB3 brought in $942 million in funding in 2022.
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Immunity as self-sacrifice: Here's one type of immune response you're probably not familiar with. When viral DNA is detected, most CRISPR-Cas systems protect their individual host by cleaving the virus. Type III systems, on the other hand, provide population immunity by inducing arrest of the infected cell. Taking one for the team! Learn more this Thursday at our webinar with Rockefeller's Luciano Marraffini.
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Thanks Judee Sharon, Ph.D.! Two distinguishing features of the QB3 mentors are their commitment to helping founders advance and their networks -- which include technical, business, legal, and regulatory contacts who will take your call because of a warm introduction. The sooner you get your application in, the more time our mentors have to think deeply about your technology and market prospects, and get back to you with questions before we select the next cohort. Got questions? Drop me a line. Ameena El-Bibany Ben Sun Brian Atwood Carolyne Zimmermann David Schaffer George Rehm Jamie Bacher Jane Grogan Jennifer Leeds Jimmy Zhang John Hoekman Manfred Lee Mickey Urdea Robert Dickinson Xiaole Shirley Liu Xue Snow G. Widya Mulyasasmita Melissa Kotterman, PhD Fay Christodoulou PhD, CMT Nadja Mannowetz Mandana H.
KuriBio is where it is today largely due to our QB3 mentors Manfred Lee and Ben Sun. Manfred acted as an Advisor for our journey through the National I-Corps program. He generously gave us 8 weeks of his time to help us do some serious customer discovery and identify which aspects of our tech had the highest commercial potential. Ben was always willing to advise on business development and introduced us to many people in the Bay Area biotech ecosystem. Ben and Manfred are only two of 20+ QB3 mentors that can help your company make tangible progress. The QB3 Early-Stage Mentorship program is taking applications through next Friday, November 15. If you have a cool idea, but are confused about where to start, read more about this program here: https://lnkd.in/gFHv3met.
Well done to Trevor Martin & Mammoth Biosciences for winning the California Life Sciences (CLS) #PantheonAward yesterday in the Emerging Innovation category! Trevor -- you're a naturally smooth public speaker, even without the teleprompter. 😆
🌟 We are happy to welcome the 2025 #BreakIntoBiotech cohort! 🌟 These students will be participating in a 5-week paid training program at #UCBerkeley followed by undergraduate academic research to help develop essential benchwork skills that will make them outstanding candidates for more #biotech opportunities. Like with Bakar Labs companies! Stay tuned to learn more about our interns and their unique stories. More about the program here: https://lnkd.in/g3x4PEhT #workforcedevelopment Wanichaya (Noem) Noiwangklang Katarina Klett (she/her)
Postdoc opportunity at #UCBerkeley: Are you interested in working at the interface of machine learning and natural sciences to address climate change? Note deadline is Nov 15 https://lnkd.in/gpmtdAAu
Before joining #BreakIntoBiotech last year, Joshua Tobiloba Adenugba had no bio lab experience. Here he is presenting at #SACNAS in Phoenix on his work with Heta Patel in the Darzacq/Tjian lab at #UCBerkeley. On the path to internships with Bakar Labs companies, perhaps to make a career in biotech! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/g3x4PEhT For more stories like this, follow UC Berkeley Innovation & Entrepreneurship Wanichaya (Noem) Noiwangklang Katarina Klett (she/her)
In case you've got a dream to make real and you're looking for a co-founder. We're still taking applications -- interest is extraordinarily high. Looking forward to some awesome matchups.
Meet your co-founder here. Yes we're doing this! And if it looks like we're copying Darren Cooke's Berkeley LSEC Speed Teaming... that's because this IS that event. Except now it is also open to people from other universities, and those who have no university affiliation. However, we are prioritizing participants from the SF Bay Area, because our goal is to generate new companies for our regional ecosystem including our #UCBerkeley incubator Bakar Labs. Looking forward to seeing some cool new companies come out of this.
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Scaling: yes, it's possible. If you're wondering whether #climatetech developed in our new #UCBerkeley incubator could have an impact on the national scale, pay attention to what Pivot Bio has accomplished. Pivot was launched in the QB3 Garage@UCSF and its microbial fertilizer is now used on 5% of American corn crops. They've faced an uphill regulatory battle in pioneering this vital strand of solving the climate crisis. We will definitely be learning from them. "Pivot estimates that last year, its treated seeds prevented the release of an estimated 706,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent — comparable to the greenhouse gases from burning 1.5 million barrels of oil." https://lnkd.in/dbm2Uktc David Schaffer Jeremy Alberga Katarina Klett (she/her)
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Thanks to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, every six months one company in the QB3 mentoring program will win a free IP landscape analysis. Thanks, Adam J. Cole, Ph.D., Esq. & Ali Alemozafar! Analyzing your IP landscape is how you can begin to figure out whether you have freedom to operate -- which you need to know in order to talk knowledgeably with investors. QB3 also partners with UC Law SF and Berkeley Law to recommend candidates for their IP landscape analysis programs too. Thanks, Paul Belonick and Allison Schmitt! Both QB3 mentoring and the IP landscape program are taking applications through Friday, November 15. Learn more on our website. https://lnkd.in/gEkD3wE7