CITRIS Foundry would like to invite our alumni, mentors, advisors, and supporters, as well as the broader CITRIS and UC Berkeley community to join us for this special launch event of the CITRIS Foundry Innovation Hub. Register Hosted by our new Executive Director, Maher Hakim, we will share our vision...
by Saemmool Lee The CITRIS Foundry welcomes a new executive director, Maher Hakim, Ph.D., who comes aboard after the Foundry’s five-year-review and a renewed mission to support deep tech innovation in the public interest. He comes to the CITRIS incubator from positions as managing director of...
By Saemmool Lee Po Jui (Ray) Chiu, co-founder and CEO of BioInspira, was named among Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy for 2019. A CITRIS Foundry company, BioInspira is a material sciences and Internet of Things (IoT) startup that leverages bio materials to build highly accurate...
by Saemmool Lee Applying new tech solutions for stubborn health care challenges is big business. At the CITRIS Foundry, in-house startup accelerator of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, about 40 percent of their current portfolio of companies are either in the health field or life sciences....
UC Berkeley kicks off a video series on tech advancements with a look at the CITRIS Foundry company Lioness. "If we're comfortable at least talking about sex, we don't have to pass on our grand old tradition of stigmatizing and misunderstanding sex," says Liz Klinger,...
On April 25, CITRIS presented to a standing-room-only crowd in Banatao Auditorium a panel of successful bioengineering entrepreneurs, including CITRIS Foundry startup leaders and Y Combinator president Sam Altman. Watch video > ...
MIT News: April 16, 2018 – "This will change the availability of optics, and how the world can use optics, in ways beyond what we can predict right now," says CEO Alex Wright-Gladstein of Ayar Labs, a CITRIS Foundry company. Read more> ...
Reposted from Berkeley News By Brett Israel | Media Relations | March 7, 2017 The UC Berkeley campus has a new innovation hub that is the result of a partnership between Enel, a multinational power company, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society...
Reposted from California Magazine. By Bill Snyder How’s this for a modern take on the venerable office vending machine? You swipe your credit or debit card, open a fridge-like glass door, and choose from an array of fresh entrees and snacks. If you want a receipt, the machine...
Reposted from the Huffington Post, By Camille Crittendon | Deputy Director, CITRIS Participation by women in scientific research is rising — women now outnumber men majoring in biological sciences and the percentage of women awarded doctoral degrees in life sciences grew from 15 percent in 1969 to 52 percent in 2009. Yet...