DECEMBER 2013

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Dear Colleagues and Friends

This year IPIRA celebrated increased licensing activity andsome wildly popular new programs ndash among which include ouroversubscribed SBIR workshops inventor office hours and ourmost recent softwarecopyright licensing and commercializationconference ndash both in response to your valuable feedback as wellas IPIRAs mission to empower Berkeleys incredible innovatorsand to further advance even more research projects tomarket As we near the end of 2013 we would like to thank ourentire community for making our growth a smashing success

In celebration of the holidays we are offering our studentsdeeply discounted tickets to The 2014 Personalized MedicineWorld Conference (PMWC) though Friday December 27PMWC brings together business government and technologythought-leaders from Stanford Harvard Johns Hopkins UCSFGenentech Merck Novartis Baxter Celgene Life TechnologiesEMC Oracle Aetna and more in a two-day conference to tacklethe advances and challenges of Personalized Medicine

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We have many new and exciting programs in the works and welook forward to reconnecting with you all in 2014

All the bestYour IPIRA team

IN THIS ISSUE License Sponsor Berkeley ResearchTools for Entrepreneurs Researchers

Office + Portfolio NewsAffiliate News

Events

License or Sponsor a UC Berkeley Research

New Berkeley technologies available for license or collaboration

Patent Pending

Programmable photoshyactuators and motors based on carbon nanotubes with tuned chiralitydistributions Read MoreNiO nanoparticle synthesis and solutionshyprocessed NiO thin film Read MorePorous organic polymers for cooperative ammonia adsorption Read MorePiezoelectric voltage transformer for low voltage transistors Read MoreAutomated twoshydimensional electrophoresis in microfluidic chamber Read MoreHydrogenshyfree amorphous silicon with no tunneling states Read MoreCombined blockade of VEGFRshy3 and VLAshy1 to improve corneal and othertissueorgan transplant survival Read MoreHigh throughput DNA topology assay Read More

Trending

Light responsive hydrogel actuators Read MoreViscous liquid extruder for 3D printing Read MoreVirus based biomimetic colorimetric sensor Read More

View All University of California Berkeley Technologies

Tools for Entrepreneurs and Researchers

2013 TechBridge Challenge ndash microgrids RampD and validation awards available forinnovative microgrid solutions (sponsored by the Shell GameChanger program)The 2013 TechBridge Challenge is seeking innovative hardware and software proposals for microgrid

operation TechBridge ndash a program within the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE)ndash will award select startups technology validation and development services such as prototyping help orfield demonstration valued at more than $25000 Over the past three years over 20 cleantech startupshave been awarded approximately $400000 in services through TechBridge These startups havesubsequently raised over $40 million in follow-on funding from a variety of sources The applicationdeadline is January 15 2014

France-Berkeley Fund (FBF) annual grant competitionThe Fund provides seed-money for innovative bi-national collaborative research Successful projectsbring together senior and junior researchers in a variety of ways from workshops and conferences toexchanges of researchers in laboratories Open to applicants from UC Berkeley UC Davis andLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory only The application deadline is January 21 2014

NIH announces six funding opportunities for the BRAIN Initiative in fiscal 2014The opportunities announced focus on developing tools and technologies for advancing theunderstanding of brain circuitry ndash high priority areas identified by the NIH Advisory Committee Awardsare expected to be announced in September 2014 and will constitute NIHrsquos initial investment of $40million in the initiative

QB3 Start Up in a BoxQB3 is dedicated to helping Berkeley scientific entrepreneurs launch successful startups Candidatesare evaluated by their their projects commercial potential and will be mentored to apply for an SBIRgrant within a month Services cover selection of the form of business organization help with setting upthe initial capital structure (vesting schedule and issuance of shares) registration with appropriateauthorities standard legal documents (NDA consulting employment and SAB agreements etc)preliminary review of IP position SBIR application workshop and pitch deck workshop

Use Pivot to access a comprehensive list of funding opportunitiesPivot combines the most comprehensive editorially maintained database of fundingopportunities worth an estimated $33 billion with a unique database of 3 million scholarprofiles Take advantage of Berkeleys access to Pivot get started today to receive fundingalerts and find research collaborators

Office + Portfolio News

Amyris continues successful commercializationAmyris announced that the number of Satildeo Paulo city buses using Amyris Renewable Diesel brandedlocally as Diesel de Cana has increased to 400 Separately Amyris has successfully produced its firstfragrance oil for its partner Firmenich SA a leading global flavors and fragrances company (1217)

James Allison awarded $3 million 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences sponsoredby Mark Zuckerberg Sergey Brin Jack Ma Yuri Milner Anne Wojcicki and othersJames Allison was recognized for the discovery of T cell checkpoint blockade as effective cancertherapy His research in the 1990s at Berkeley led to the clinical development of ipilimumab (Yervoy)which was fastshytrack approved in 2011 by the FDA for the treatment of metastatic melanoma (1213)

IPIRA managed the patenting process and eventual commercialization through NeXstarPharmaceuticals Gilead Sciences and Medarex BristolshyMyers Squibb generating $875 millionupfront royalties directed towards UC Berkeley scientific research needs Such funding paid for newundergrad biology teaching labs improvements to the Cancer Research Laboratory (where theinvention was discovered) funding for Berkeleys Stem Cell building graduate student funds and facultyretentions

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IPIRA supports new partnership to kick off fire detection satellite initiative The costs of fire damage to federal and state governments the insurance industry and society ingeneral is substantial with fire-fighting costs alone in the billions per year UC Berkeley researcher CarlPennypacker and a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Berkeleys Space Sciences Lab andCollege of Natural Resources published an article in Remote Sensing on October 17 on a proposed firedetection satellite based on Berkeley technology called Fire Urgency Estimator in Geosynchronous Orbit(FUEGO) ndash view press release With FUEGO Pennypacker and his team have identified a pathway tomitigate this extraordinary cost burden to society However no single funding agency or industry sectorhas yet allocated sufficient funding for a program to launch this new fire detection technology

On December 10 IPIRA hosted and facilitated akick-off meeting for industry government andacademia to plan a broad-based public-privatepartnership focused on developing FUEGOMultiple players are needed to provideguidance research contributions technologydata business planing and funding for thisground-breaking effort In a day of presentationand discussion we surveyed the fire detectionlandscape explored the political and economicforces and potential commercial opportunitiesand began planning a multi-party public-privatepartnership for research and commercializationof satellite-based fire detection (1210)

Stay tuned for our next FUEGO meeting planned for March 2014 on the Berkeley campus

Fluxion Biosciences first pilot study shows early detection of circulating tumor cells inchallenging patient groupFluxion Biosciences IsoFlux System demonstrates high sensitivity circulating tumor cell (CTC) recoveryin early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient group obtained in collaboration with Dr MaxDiehnrsquos lab at Stanford University (1125)

Affiliate News

UC Berkeley professor and Nobel Laureate Randy Schekman answers Reddit questionsUC Berkeley professor Randy Schekman stopped by Reddit to answer questions about winning a 2013Nobel Prize his boycott of top academic journals and some of his favorite things (1212) Facebook taps UC Berkeley researchers to study emotions The 4th Facebook Compassion Research Day discussed the application of the science of how peoplerelate to each other to social technology Speakers included Dacher Keltner and Paul Piff fromBerkeleys The Greater Good Science Center Marc Brackett and Robin Stern from Yales Center forEmotional Intelligence and Emma Seppala from Stanfords CCARE among others (125)

Events

Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 2014 Silicon Valley ndash January 27 amp 28 2014Join other academics researchers and industry leaders for the 7th annual Personalized Medicine WorldConference on January 27th and 28th in Silicon Valley The fourshytrack program will include close to 100

speakers from all around the world PMWC 2014 SV provides a magnificent opportunity to meet andlearn from worldshyrenowned experts about the latest cutting edge advances in clinical moleculardiagnostics and personalized medicine

It is a unique opportunity to hear from speakers and panelists like

James Herman Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions ldquoEpigenetic Changes in Cancer Use forDetection and Prediction of TherapiesrdquoSteve Quake (Stanford University) Cliff Reid (Complete Genomics) Stefan Roever (Genia) MikeHunkapiller (PacBio) Maneesh Jain (Ion Torrent) Moderator Kevin Davies (ACS) ldquoKiller AppsGenome Interpretation amp The Future of NGSrdquoEric Green National Human Genome Research Institute ldquoA Research Agenda for GenomicMedicine Opportunities and Challengesrdquo

Conference program http2014svpmwcintlcomprogramphp Registration Academic promo for IPIRA (runs December 23 shy December 27) $225 (versus $1300) Go to httpspmwc2014eventbritecom Enter promo code IPIRA_225

Save the Date for New Faculty Outreach ndash February 11 2014Location UC Berkeley Faculty ClubTime 1200 shy 130 pm Refreshments will be served

If you are a new faculty member in the last three years or yoursquod just like a refresher we invite you toattend an informative overview of the central campus research offices here to serve you Come hear howthe services of Berkeleyrsquos campus offices can help you get started or keep you going at Berkeley Yoursquollhear from offices that assist faculty with contracts and grants industry collaboration human subjectsanimal research conflict of interest accounting and disclosing and licensing inventions Topics covered

How each office can help you and whom to contactOpportunities for research funding and partnershipsWhat to expect when working with research sponsors and licenseesKeeping ahead of complianceWhere your funds are and how theyrsquore doing

Startup Series Build Your Financial Model ndash February 25 2014Presenter Rob SchockLocation SkyDeck at 2150 Shattuck Avenue Penthouse Floor BerkeleyTime 600 shy 730 pm

IPIRA will feature a free workshop with serial Chief Financial Officer Rob Schock on Building YourFinancial Model The workshop will focus on the whys and how tos of building a financial model fora business Rob Schock is a partshytime and interim CFO for startups with 30 years of senior managementexperience Robrsquos experience spans Fortune 100 companies to Silicon Valley startups gtgt RSVP

Save the Date for NSF SBIRSTTR Grant Application Bootcamp ndash May 2014Presenter Shauna FarrshyJonesLocation UC Berkeley Stanley Hall Room 117Schedule Two 25shyhour classes

This newsletter was edited and produced by OpheliaYeung at IPIRA in collaboration with IPIRA and affiliatestaff Please send any correspondence and contentsuggestion to Ophelia at opheliaberkeleyedu

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