Research Tools

Solidus Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

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 and development.

Company Founders

UC Berkeley Professor Douglas Clark, Jonathan Dordick

Inventors

Douglas Clark, Jonathan Dordick

Formerly known as Solidus Networks. Inc.

Timeline 2005. Company founded.

Scribe Therapeutics

Brief Description

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 Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology and Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna. Doudna co-founded Scribe with company CEO Benjamin Oakes, who received a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from UC Berkeley in 2017, where he worked in the Doudna Lab and Savage Lab, UC Berkeley Associate Professor of...

Generation Lab

Brief Description

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 proprietary techniques to definitively measure molecular disbalance that indicates aging and risk of disease before symptoms arise. The company works with clinicians who can recommend personalized interventions to increase health, wellness, and longevity; and Generation Lab uniquely measures the...

Fluxion Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

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 helps bridge the translational medicine gap by bringing research data closer to patients. Fluxion's innovative systems for live cell analysis are enabling rapid advances in disease research, drug discovery, and the development of diagnostic tests.

The company successfully introduced three...

EZNome, Inc.

Brief Description

EZNome commercializes high-throughput mammalian genome editing technologies utilizing CRISPR ribonucleoprotein (RNP) electroporation of zygotes (CRISPR-EZ).

Inventors

Sean Chen, Lin He, Yiu-Fai Lee

Timeline 2018. Company founded.

Epigenetic Gene Editing

Brief Description

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.

Inventors

Enrique Lin Shiao, Jennifer Doudna

Timeline 2021. Company founded

Enable Biosciences, Inc.

Brief Description

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 was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry Carolyn Bertozzi, with Drs. Peter Robinson and Jason Tsai, who were PhD students in her lab. In 2022, Dr. Bertozzi shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for taking click chemistry, which allows molecules to snap together in a quick and efficient way,...

Dahlia Biosciences

Brief Description Dahlia Biosciences is leading the development of cell-based RNA detection tools using CRISPR technology. The foundational RNA-targeting Cas9 technology was invented by Dr. Mitchell O’Connell and Dr. Sam Sternberg in the laboratory of Dr. Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley.

The company's vision is to empower scientists to study and isolate cells at high resolution via sensitive, robust, and multiplexed RNA detection in both fixed and live cells.

Inventors

Jennifer Doudna, Mitchell O'Connell, Benjamin Oakes, Samuel Sternberg

Company Founders

Un Kwon-Casado, Samuel...

CryoVox Technologies

Brief Description

Crovox Technologies is developing new tools for the mass manufacturing of 3D cell cultures.

Inventors

Boris Rubinsky, Michal Adamkievicz, Ze'ev Shaked

Timeline 2024. Company founded

CellASIC Corp.

Brief Description

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 quality for high magnification microscopy, and superior media switching capabilities.

The company was founded by UC Berkeley Professor of Bioengineering Luke Lee and his graduate students Paul Hung and Philip Lee.

Inventors

Ju Sung Hung, Luke Lee, Philip Lee

Company Founders

Philip...