Medical Devices

Organos, Inc.

Brief Description Developer of cardiac micro physiological systems designed to offer three-dimensional (3D) human cardiac tissue models for advanced analysis. The company's data science ecosystem is used to illuminate the effects of compounds on human cardiac tissue, ranging from acute cardiotoxicity and safety pharmacology to chronic studies to predict drug-induced arrhythmia, thereby enabling the health industry to perform safer and cheaper drug development activities. Timeline 2016. Company founded. 2020. Company participated in Berkeley...

Adapta Imaging, Inc.

Brief Description

Adapta Imaging, Inc. is developing a new type of radiofrequency (RF) coil, an essential component of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) hardware, which can operate at any frequency. The Any-nucleus Distributed Active Programmable Transmit (ADAPT) coil was invented at UC Berkeley in the lab of Dr. Chunlei Liu, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. The ADAPT coil converts direct current power into RF magnetic fields with frequencies chosen by digital control signals, eliminating the need for...

Iota Biosciences

Brief Description

Established in 2017, iota Biosciences was formed with a vision to change how the world monitors and treats disease. Building on award-winning 'neural dust' technology invented at the University of California, Berkeley, Iota Biosciences is building a platform for the future of bioelectronic medicine.

Timeline 2017. Company founded. Inventors

Michel Maharbiz, Jose Carmena

Magnetic Insight

Brief Description

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 research groups in the global field of Magnetic Particle Imaging from UC Berkeley. Developed over the past decade in the research lab of UC Berkeley Bioengineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Steven Conolly, MPI has proven in animal studies to generate high-contrast...

InkSpace Imaging, Inc.

Brief Description

InkSpace Imaging makes comfortable, patient-customized Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) surface receive coils, that help MRI operators decrease their costs while increasing patient comfort and the speed of exams.

UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Professors Ana Claudia Arias and Michael (Miki) Shimon Lustig, and UC Berkeley PhD student Joseph Corea, founded the company to commercialize their invention of thin-film, lightweight MRI sensors that can be embedded in swaddles that fits snugly on little patients, making MRI procedures easier and...

20/20 Display Technologies, Inc.

Brief Description

20/20 Display Technologies solution allows people to view their devices without having to wear glasses, contacts, or receive extensive surgeries. This technology helps read emails, view videos or search the web, seeing the images in sharp focus without wearing corrective eyewear.

Timeline 2015. Company founded. Inventors

Brian Barsky, Fu-Chung Huang, Ramesh Raskar, Gordon Wetzstein

Xydex Corporation

Brief Description

Tweezers for dextrous manipulation of micro objects.

Timeline 2001. Company founded. Inventors

Ronald Fearing, Eiji Shimada

Xip Diagnostics

Brief Description

Xip Diagnostics develops analytical solutions that advance human and animal health at the point of need through in-house product development and industry-leading collaborations.

The company's disposable blood analyzers wirelessly upload lab-quality clinical measurements in minutes, providing blood testing with no hassles, no delays, and no instrument. These devices will be deployed in Emergency Departments (EDs), clinics, and eventually the home.

Xip Diagnostics Founder and CEO Dr. Octavian Florescu spun out the company to commercialize research discoveries...

YourChoice Therapeutics

Brief Description

YourChoice Therapeutics is revolutionizing birth control options for women and men by developing hormone-free contraceptives and bringing them to market. Our technology is the result of a decade of research at the University of California, Berkeley and has been published in numerous high-impact journals.

Timeline 2018. Company founded Inventors

Yuriy Kirichok, Polina Lishko, Nadja Mannowetz, Melissa Miller

suitX

Brief Description

suitX brought advanced accessible exoskeletons to industrial and medical markets with funding from venture capital, industry, and government.

Formerly known as U.S. Bionics.

Acquired by Ottobock in 2021.

Timeline 2011. Company founded. 2021. Acquired by Ottobock. Inventors

Homayoon Kazerooni, Adam Zoss, Andre Nguyen Van Qui, Bradley Perry, Christina Yee, Daniel Merala, David Cuban, Dong-Jin Hyun, Dylan Fairbanks, Erich Hacker, Han Woong Bae, James Alden Hatch, Jason Reid, JiaLong James Ren, Jing Song Huang, JJ Kuwata...