Berkeley Lab's Chief Technology Transfer Officer, Elsie Quaite-Randall, along with some of the Lab's Innovation and Partnerships Office (IPO) staff met with technology transfer professionals from Poland's Top 500 Innovators Program and shared strategies and mechanisms to transition lab inventions to the marketplace. Poland's Top 500 Innovators Program partners with the … [Read more...] about Berkeley Lab IPO Meets Polish Counterparts
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Startup CinderBio to Target Food Processing
Basic biology research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has led to the formation of Cinder Biological, or CinderBio, a startup company producing a new class of enzymes made from microbes that thrive in hot volcanic waters. Co-founded by Berkeley Lab scientists Steve Yannone and Jill Fuss, CinderBio will first target the food processing … [Read more...] about Startup CinderBio to Target Food Processing
Chief Technology Transfer Officer Honored
Elsie Quaite-Randall, Ph. D., MBA, was named one of 14 Women @ The Lab for 2015, an honor acknowledging achievements in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) and Berkeley Lab operations. Quaite-Randall, Chief Technology Transfer Officer for the Lab's Innovation and Partnerships Office, started her career in molecular biology and biochemistry before becoming a patent … [Read more...] about Chief Technology Transfer Officer Honored
JBEI Research and Startups Featured
Chemical and Engineering News feature writer Melody Bomgardner covered the past, present, and future of research at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), including advances in production of biofuels and chemicals from feedstocks. The article also highlights startups, including TeselaGen, Lygos, and Affingen, founded on JBEI technology. For the complete article, go here. … [Read more...] about JBEI Research and Startups Featured
Collaborative Research for Optimized Biomass Conversion
A collaboration between the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and the Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit (ABPDU) to scale up an effective, optimized biomass-conversion process using ionic liquids was highlighted in the October issue of Chemical Engineering. In the article, Blake Simmons, JBEI's chief science and technology officer, expresses confidence that the … [Read more...] about Collaborative Research for Optimized Biomass Conversion