May 18, 2022
Assistant Professor Markita del Carpio Landry of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering has been named the inaugural recipient of the Philomathia Prize. The prize recognizes demonstrated excellence and future potential of a UC Berkeley faculty member’s research. Established in 2021 through a generous endowment gift from the Philomathia Foundation, the Philomathia Prize will…
May 03, 2022
Six UC Berkeley’s faculty members were elected today to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Among these, three are QB3-Berkeley faculty members. The six were among 120 members and 30 international members elected at the conclusion of the academy’s 159th annual meeting. Membership is a…
April 29, 2022
As a kid growing up in Orange County, UC Berkeley biology professor Randy Schekman remembers collecting a jar of dirty pond scum from a nearby riverbed, sliding it under the lens of his toy microscope and being transfixed by the tiny, cellular world he saw. That fascination led Schekman to an illustrious career: a Berkeley…
April 28, 2022
QB3-Berkeley interviews faculty affiliate Irina Conboy about her lab’s research on aging.
April 26, 2022
The day I spoke to Jennifer Doudna was a tough day: the US Patent Office had just ruled against her university on CRISPR’s most important uses, handing the commercial rights to her rivals at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Doudna is the co-discoverer of CRISPR editing, the revolutionary method for engineering genes that, 10 years…
April 26, 2022
Seth Lieblich, PhD, is a principal at venture capital firm 8VC focusing on life sciences technologies. He joins the QB3-Berkeley Professional in Residence program on May 6th. Lieblich spoke to postdoctoral researcher Elisabeth Gill about his trajectory from academic research to the biotech entrepreneurship ecosystem working in a biotech start-up, consulting, within the business development…
April 22, 2022
QB3-Berkeley seeks a talented, reliable, organized, and design-minded student to join our team as a communications and administrative Assistant. This position will work with QB3-Berkeley’s leadership to help us communicate our research, outreach, programming, and events to the UC Berkeley community and beyond. Undergraduate students who have strong verbal and written communication skills and who…
March 29, 2022
Timothy Day, PhD and UC Berkeley alumnus, is the co-founder and chief scientific officer (CSO) of DNALite Therapeutics. Day will be QB3-Berkeley’s Professional in Residence on April 5, 2022. In an interview with graduate student Leah Gulyas, Day traced his path to entrepreneurship from growing up in Kansas with the goal of pursuing medicine to…