UC Berkeley intellectual property spinouts commercializing innovations in Research Tools.
A/F Protein Inc.
A/F Protein Inc. is the world's only commercial producer of antifreeze proteins purified from natural sources for sale to the research and development community. The company was spun out of discoveries in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical...Read more about A/F Protein Inc.
Acacia Biosciences, Inc.
Acacia Biosciences, Inc. was a drug discovery technology company committed to the creation of proprietary assay systems and databases that facilitate the rapid development of biopharmaceutical s and agricultural chemicals. The Genome Reporter Matrix is the first in a series of...Read more about Acacia Biosciences, Inc.
Acrigen Biosciences, Inc.
Acrigin Biosciences is developing Precision Gene Editing Systems to harness the power of CRISPR for use in human therapeutics. Acrigen’s proprietary technology leverages novel αCas and μCas CRISPR gene editors coupled with ErAcrs (engineered anti-CRISPR proteins) to create an...Read more about Acrigen Biosciences, Inc.
Addition Therapeutics
Addition is transforming genetic medicine by developing RNA-only therapeutics that PRINT™ any genetic element at specific safe harbor sites.
Kathy Collins, Jeremy John McIntyre,...Read more about Addition Therapeutics
Algen Biotechnologies
Algen Biotechnologies is building a next-generation, functional genomics-based platform for the discovery of novel therapeutics for cancers with high unmet need. Algen’s research group focuses on developing and applying novel functional genomics technologies to address...Read more about Algen Biotechnologies
Ansa Biotechnologies
With synthetic DNA fueling innovation in biological research, therapeutics, diagnostics, and biomanufacturing, there is an urgent need for faster and more accurate DNA synthesis. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained essentially unchanged for 35...Read more about Ansa Biotechnologies
Apertor Pharmaceuticals
Apertor creates novel molecular glues for therapeutic applications in multiple disease areas. The company applies a world-class synthetic biology platform using non-model organisms, a deep knowledge of complex natural products relevant to human health, and a computational
...Read more about Apertor PharmaceuticalsArtris Therapeutics, Inc.
Artris Therapeutics was founded to identify and develop cancer therapeutics. The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemical Biology and Molecular Therapeutics Daniel Nomura.
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Berkeley Yeast
Berkeley Yeast is a startup founded by UC Berkeley scientists, with grant funding from NSF, NIH, and USDA, as well as from venture capital. Berkeley Yeast bioengineers yeast strains that improve fermentation for brewers, winemakers, and beyond. The company uses synthetic...Read more about Berkeley Yeast
BioAmp Diagnostics
BioAmp develops novel, instrument-free screening and diagnostic tools to identify antibiotic-resistant bacteria in patient samples.
BioChoric
Biochoric uses isochoric supercooling to enable stable preservation of sensitive biological matter at sub-zero temperatures without freezing or solidification.
Matthew Powell-Palm, Boris...Read more about BioChoric
Caribou Biosciences Inc.
Caribou Biosciences is a clinical-stage CRISPR genome-editing biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing transformative therapies for patients with devastating diseases. The company’s genome-editing platform, including its Cas12a chRDNA technology, enables superior...Read more about Caribou Biosciences Inc.
Cell Guidance Systems Ltd
Cell Guidance Systems is based in Cambridge (UK), at the heart of one of the world's most exciting biotech regions. The company develops therapeutic products as well as medical research tools and technologies that expand the possibilities of life...Read more about Cell Guidance Systems Ltd
Cell-X
Editing T-cells with nanopore-electroporation to improve CRISPR-Cas9 editing capabilities.
YuHong Cao, Jennifer Doudna, Enbo Ma, Peidong Yang
Read more about Cell-XCellASIC Corp.
CellASIC¨ ONIX Microfluidic Platform delivers precise control for live cell analysis experiments by facilitating long-term perfusion cell culture. Cutting-edge microfluidics technology provides an improved cell culture microenvironment, exceptional...Read more about CellASIC Corp.
Dahlia Biosciences
Enable Biosciences, Inc.
Enable Biosciences is an early-stage biotech company creating the next generation of tools for predictive medicine, with diagnostics 10,000x more sensitive than previous methods, for earlier detection and treatment of diseases like HIV and type 1 diabetes.
The company...Read more about Enable Biosciences, Inc.
Epigenetic Gene Editing
Epigenetic Gene Editing is a gene editing tools company dedicated to improvements in CRISPR-Cas9 editing by providing a fusion protein kit to gene editing companies.
Formerly known as EPI-CRISPRx.
EZNome, Inc.
EZNome commercializes high-throughput mammalian genome editing technologies utilizing CRISPR ribonucleoprotein (RNP) electroporation of zygotes (CRISPR-EZ).
Timeline 2018. Company founded. InventorsSean Chen, Lin He, Yiu-Fai LeeRead more about EZNome, Inc.
Fluxion Biosciences, Inc.
Fluxion Biosciences provides analytical, live cell analysis tools that facilitate the transformation of research discoveries into new ways to diagnose and treat patients. By characterizing molecular and cellular mechanisms in physiologically relevant micro-environments, Fluxion...Read more about Fluxion Biosciences, Inc.
Generation Lab
Generation Lab provides the first and only platform that measures the effectiveness of longevity interventions to identify what works. Co-founded by pre-eminent aging and longevity researcher Dr. Irina Conboy from UC Berkeley, Generation Lab combines an easy-to-use test with...Read more about Generation Lab
IMYu
Rejuvenation therapy based on a modified version of an already FDA-approved plasma exchange technique known as plasmapheresis, in which a machine separates the plasma (the liquid part of the blood) from the blood cells and then returns the blood to the person receiving...Read more about IMYu
IntegenX
IntegenX is the market leader of Rapid DNA technology for human identification in forensics and law enforcement applications. IntegenX’s RapidHIT technologies integrate advanced fluidics, optics, and biochemistry capabilities to produce sample-to-answer solutions for DNA-based...Read more about IntegenX
Kalinex, Inc.
Kalinex is developing technology that emulates the sense of smell, which is the only human/animal sense that has not yet been replicated in small devices and systems. The company's proprietary technology allows for the detection of molecules with extremely high sensitivity and...Read more about Kalinex, Inc.
Laguna Bio
Developer of drug discovery platform designed to selectively activate and expand the innate immune system against cancer. The company specializes in providing a specific type of T cell for the immune system to fight solid tumors by increasing the response rate of a
...Read more about Laguna BioLumiphore, Inc.
Lumiphore develops proprietary bi-functional chelators for biomedical applications in drug discovery research, diagnostics, and therapeutics. These include biological detection systems based on luminescent lanthanide complexes (which provide a unique combination of sensitivity...Read more about Lumiphore, Inc.
Magnetic Insight
Magnetic Insight is developing solutions in Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI), a ground-breaking technology that will overcome major deficiencies with current clinical and translational research imaging techniques.
Magnetic Insight Inc. was founded by one of the leading...Read more about Magnetic Insight
Magnetic Tides
Magnetic Tides has developed a new non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) system capable of modulating brain function more reliably and effectively than previously existing NIBS methods.
NIBS is used as a research tool to safely, transiently alter the excitability state...Read more about Magnetic Tides
Mammoth Biosciences
Mammoth’s vision is to provide a CRISPR-based platform on which an infinite number of tests can be built by both ourselves and our partners - democratizing access to an endless variety of tests for bio sensing in healthcare, as well as across industries such as agriculture,...Read more about Mammoth Biosciences
Microreactor Technologies
Developer of miniature bioreactor technology platforms. The company offers improved cell fermentation and cultivation productivity services. It develops and operates Micro-24, fermentation and cell culture system which runs up to 24 simultaneous experiments with independent...Read more about Microreactor Technologies
Molecular Dynamics
The development of high speed, high throughput and highly accurate DNA sequencing methods was one prerequisite for the success of the Human Genome Project. In answer to this need, Richard Mathies and his lab at UC Berkeley developed a new method called capillary array
...Read more about Molecular DynamicsNamuh
Neomorphic Software
Neomorphic uses proprietary software algorithms and computing infrastructure to analyze, assemble and annotate genomic and expressed gene sequence data. Neomorphic's bioinformatics capabilities have been demonstrated in several scientific settings, including the...Read more about Neomorphic Software
Ogma Scientific
Ogma Scientific works with clients in the energy, mining and agriculture sectors and clients in the chemical industry to identify innovative treatment strategies for problems in industrial ecosystems. Our high-throughput screening services are uniquely
OptoCeutics
Advancing non-invasive light technologies to stimulate the brain and improve cognitive function.
Through clinical trials, Optoceutics tests and develop solutions to treat and diagnose neurodegenerative diseases using emerging gamma stimulation therapy
Pow.Bio
Pow.Bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology. The company's services combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize the fermentation process and deliver high yields at low cost. The scale runs...Read more about Pow.Bio
Propagate Sensing
Measuring changes in temperature and strain distributed along the length of an optical fiber with Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry for civil engineering projects.
Bo Li,...Read more about Propagate Sensing
Protiveris, Inc.
Protiveris Inc. develops and commercializes micro- and nanocantilever systems for academic research, drug discovery and development, bio-defense, protein research, and discovery of new pharmaceuticals and diagnostic applications.
RS3Dprints
The Cryolithographic Technology was initially developed to produce biological organs
Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates
Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates was founded to commercialize tools that help users develop strong geologic field skills, based on technology developed in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor George Brimhall. GeoMapper and GeoLogger enable surface mapping, underground mapping,...Read more about Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates
Scribe Therapeutics
Scribe is focused on the engineering, delivery, and development of next-generation CRISPR molecules to rewrite and repair the underlying cause of genetic disorders. The molecular engineering company was spun out of discoveries in the lab of UC Berkeley Professor of...Read more about Scribe Therapeutics
Shrink Technologies, Inc.
Shrink Technologies, Inc., based in Carlsbad, California, was acquired by Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. on May 29, 2009. Shrink Technologies specializes in developing innovative technologies, particularly focused on metal-enhanced fluorescence (MEF) applications. Their...Read more about Shrink Technologies, Inc.
Solidus Biosciences, Inc.
Solidus' mission for the pharmaceutical industry is to improve the process of new drug development by providing proprietary decision-enabling technology to enhance drug safety, efficiency, cost, and, thereby, productivity from investment in new drug research
Spiral Devices LLC
Spiral Devices LLC is a biotechnology company committed to developing and commercializing technologies that improve the in vivo delivery of biological molecules for studying and treating disease. The company's BioDriver particle bombardment device delivers...Read more about Spiral Devices LLC
Synvivia, Inc.
Synvivia is a synthetic biology company that optimizes cell behavior for gene therapy manufacturing, providing a practical solution for genetically encoded biocontainment. The company is building genetically encoded biocontainment technologies that will enable the widespread...Read more about Synvivia, Inc.
Tenaya Therapeutics
Tenaya Therapeutics is shaping the future of heart disease treatment driven by a mission to discover, develop, and deliver curative therapies that address the underlying drivers of heart disease. Tenaya is developing therapies for rare genetic disorders as well as for more...Read more about Tenaya Therapeutics
Texas Fluorescence Labs
Texas Fluorescence Labs was a reagent and assay technologies company, spun out of modern fluorescent calcium indicator discoveries at UC Berkeley. The company specialized in pioneering new approaches to ion channel and ion transporter-focused basic and translational research...Read more about Texas Fluorescence Labs
Tilden Bio
Development of photosynthetic bioproducts including natural plant essential oils, cannabinoids, and biopharmaceutical proteins. The technology has been applied to enhance yields of high-value photosynthetic bioproducts in the UC Berkeley Melis Laboratory.
Formerly known...Read more about Tilden Bio
Vedere Bio II
Vedere Bio II is pioneering beyond traditional gene therapy to not just slow vision loss from inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs) or dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD) with geographic atrophy (GA), but actually restore it.
Ventria Biosciences (formerly known as Applied Phytologics Inc.)
Ventria Bioscience is a privately held biopharmaceutical company with a product pipeline enabled by ExpressTec. ExpressTec is a patented, plant-based recombinant protein manufacturing technology that delivers a ten-fold higher recombinant protein yield than other plant-based...Read more about Ventria Biosciences (formerly known as Applied Phytologics Inc.)
Vitrichoric, Inc.
Vitrichoric, Inc. develops technology for high-stability supercooling of aqueous solutions or suspensions for the preservation of biological matter.
Gabriel...Read more about Vitrichoric, Inc.
Water Harvesting, Inc
Xenometrix, Inc.
Zephyrus Biosciences, Inc.
This life science research tools company was spun out of technology developed in the UC Berkeley bioengineering department. Zephyrus Biosciences developed medical research tools for single-cell analyses, enabling high resolution biology. The company's first product, called Milo...Read more about Zephyrus Biosciences, Inc.