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Ventria Biosciences (formerly known as Applied Phytologics Inc.)

Brief Description

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 systems. Ventria Bioscience's platform technology delivers meaningful and sustainable economic advantages by enabling new product opportunities that were not previously available. It can be used to develop new biotherapeutics, novel vaccines, reagents for biomanufacturing, and industrial and biofuel...

Vedere Bio II

Brief Description

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.

Inventors

Matthew Banghart, Michael Hayden Berry, Katherine Borges, Johannes Broichhagen, John Flannery, Doris Fortin, Benjamin Gaub, Scott Franklin Geller, Pablo Gorostiza, Karen Isabelle Guerin, Amy Holt, Ehud Isacoff, Richard Kramer, Joshua Levitz, Katharine Munckton, Autoosa Salari, Dirk Trauner, Meike Visel, Matthew Volgraf...

Tilden Bio

Brief Description

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 as Tabletop Energy.

Inventors

Nico Betterle, Fiona Davies, Cinzia Formighieri, Diego Hidalgo Martinez, Henning Kirst, Andrew Saphire, Hsu Ching Wintz, Andreas Zurbriggen, Anastasios Melis

Company Founders

Jerry Riessen

Timeline 2019. Company incorporated

Texas Fluorescence Labs

Brief Description

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 and provided reagents, assays, and assay development services to scientists, universities, and laboratories worldwide for research in biochemistry, biomolecular screening, microbiology, and neuroscience.

In 2018, UC Berkeley Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Roger Tsien shared the Nobel...

Tenaya Therapeutics

Brief Description

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 prevalent heart conditions through three platforms: Gene Therapy, Cellular Regeneration, and Precision Medicine. The company was spun out of a new method for creating three-dimensional human heart tissue from stem cells, developed in a collaboration between UC Berkeley Professor of Materials Science...

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...

Rubicon Digital Mapping Associates

Brief Description

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, and drillhole logging using digital methods implemented in two integrated and compatible mapping software systems, one for mapping and the other for logging.

Inventors

George Brimhall, Erica Stanton, Abel Vanegas

Timeline 2001. Company founded

RS3Dprints

Brief Description

3D printing for medical and food applications. Mass producing alternative steaks from alternative ground beef. Scalable solution for 3D printed alternative meat.

The Cryolithographic Technology was initially developed to produce biological organs for organ transplant. Realizing that there was an immediate commercial opportunity in food production, RS3Dprints was spun out of the lab.

Inventors

Boris Rubinsky, Ze'ev Shaked, Michal Adamkievicz

Company Founders

Dan Rubinsky

Timeline 2016. Company founded

Protiveris, Inc.

Brief Description

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.

Inventors

Ohmyyoung Kwon, Arunava Majumdar, Minyao Mao, Thomas Perazzo, Guanghua Wu, Yang Zhao

Company Founders

John Peeters

Timeline 1998. Company founded