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Biosciences Inventor Deepika Awasthi Wins 2022 Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition

Biosciences Inventor Deepika Awasthi Wins 2022 Berkeley Lab Pitch Competition

On Oct. 27, Berkeley Lab inventors eloquently pitched their inventions in a “pitch” competition as part of an entrepreneurship training program co-hosted by the Intellectual Property Office and Haas Business School. The competition, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE), was designed to provide scientist-entrepreneurs at the Lab with experience …
Sign Up for DOE 2023 Energy Innovation Corps Entrepreneurship Training

Sign Up for DOE 2023 Energy Innovation Corps Entrepreneurship Training

Energy I-Corps is a key initiative of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), which sends teams …
Berkeley Lab Startup NexTech Achieves Milestone UN/Department of Transportation Certification for Lithium Sulfur Technology

Berkeley Lab Startup NexTech Achieves Milestone UN/Department of Transportation Certification for Lithium Sulfur Technology

NexTech Batteries, a Berkeley Lab spinoff, earns milestone UN/DOT safety certification, advancing patented lithium-sulfur technology towards commercialization. Its 5.4 amp …
Pitch Competition for Lab Entrepreneurs Coming in October

Pitch Competition for Lab Entrepreneurs Coming in October

Want to practice pitching your science-based business idea to partners and funders? Every year, IPO hosts a pitch competition (with …
Register for DOE Tech Talks: Interactive Workshops for Innovation Training and Professional Development

Register for DOE Tech Talks: Interactive Workshops for Innovation Training and Professional Development

Are you interested in innovation training but don’t have a lot of time? The DOE Tech Talks ‘22 program, run …
Advanced Manufacturing Office Call for Industrial Decarbonization Proposals

Advanced Manufacturing Office Call for Industrial Decarbonization Proposals

This Department of Energy Technology Commercialization Fund lab call seeks proposals for collaborative projects with industrial partners to develop innovations …
Ansa Biotechnologies Closes Oversubscribed $68 Million Series A Financing to Power the Next Era of DNA-Enabled Industries (ANSA press release)

Ansa Biotechnologies Closes Oversubscribed $68 Million Series A Financing to Power the Next Era of DNA-Enabled Industries (ANSA press release)

Ansa, a Berkeley Lab/Joint BioEnergy Institute startup company managed by the University of California at Berkeley, has just raised a …
I-Corps Lite 2022: Learn how to take your innovations and ideas to market

I-Corps Lite 2022: Learn how to take your innovations and ideas to market

Innovation skills can be learned.  Through Berkeley Lab’s I-Corps Lite training program, innovators can learn to commercialize their technology or …
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Offers Trial Kit for CRAGE Genome Engineering Tool to Accelerate Discovery and Innovations in Microbiology and Biosynthesis

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Offers Trial Kit for CRAGE Genome Engineering Tool to Accelerate Discovery and Innovations in Microbiology and Biosynthesis

Novel tool bypasses plasmid-based expression to increase stability and significantly reduce development time for a variety of synthetic biotechnology products …
Berkeley Lab Introduces Printed Circuit Boards with Solderless, Board-in-Board Interconnections for Low-cost, Flexible Designs

Berkeley Lab Introduces Printed Circuit Boards with Solderless, Board-in-Board Interconnections for Low-cost, Flexible Designs

Invention opens doors for electrical device manufacturers to develop cost-effective printed circuit boards for use in sensor devices as well …
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Offers Software Tools for Biosciences Research and Development

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Offers Software Tools for Biosciences Research and Development

March 3, 2022, Berkeley, CA – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory, has …