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Everything that a bio-entrepreneur needs, all in one location.
There has never been a shortage of entrepreneurs with great ideas designed to tackle the most pressing global challenges — from human health to environmental sustainability.
To grow those ideas into successful ventures, entrepreneurs need space, equipment, and multiple connections to a vibrant ecosystem. That’s why we created Bakar Bio Labs at UC Berkeley. Bakar Bio Labs is built to be the foundational hub for resources where startups thrive.
How Agilent helps our startups move faster
Agilent Technologies takes viewers inside Bakar Bio Labs in a new video highlighting how its instruments power discovery for our resident companies. Through the partnership, Agilent places and maintains equipment in our shared core facilities, trains scientists, and offers office hours for troubleshooting. Startups featured in the video — FutureBio, Axent Biosciences, and Transition Metal Solutions — use HPLC and LC-MS to verify compounds, the Cytation 5 to automate cell imaging, and ICP for precise trace measurements. By taking instrumentation off founders’ plates, the partnership frees up time and capital so teams can focus on the science! Read post
Endpoints 11: Azalea Therapeutics melds gene editing and CAR-T
Azalea Therapeutics was named to the Endpoints 11, “biotech’s most exciting startups of 2026. Read the full story at Endpoints News (paywall). Read post
Founders and funders connect at this year’s Bakar Bio Labs company showcase
The annual networking event brought together high-caliber investors with high quality startups, catalyzing deals and innovation Read post Bakar Bio Labs featured in California magazine
The magazine of the California Alumni Association recently toured Bakar Bio Labs, speaking with our staff and entrepreneurs Chris Eiben of GigaCrop and Chad Miller of ResVita Bio. Check out the story for an inside view of our building and a better understanding of what’s cooking at “the most beautiful biotech incubator in the world.” Read post UC Berkeley maintains its spot as the world’s top producer of startups and founders
UC BERKELEY NEWS — The annual PitchBook rankings again showed how Berkeley’s commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship operates at a scale unmatched by any other university. Read post
12 Biotech Accelerators That Actually Move the Needle for Founders
CURE. – Here are 12 biotech accelerators and incubators every founder should know. Read post
New Impact Grant recipients aim to translate their research into real world solutions
Launched in 2023, our BioEnginuity Impact Grant helps STEM doctoral students aim their research toward the greater social good. The grant offers students the flexibility to reimagine their research in interdisciplinary directions, commercialize their technology, or pursue industry partnerships, all with the goal of solving the world’s most pressing problems. Awardees are also supported by extracurricular offerings, including workshops, networking, and mentoring opportunities. Our fourth cohort of fellows has demonstrated a clear commitment to tackling global challenges through collaborative research. Read post
FutureBio co-founders publish Nature Biotechnology paper on enzymes engineered to produce recyclable plastics
CEO Zilong Wang and CSO Seokjung Cheong are lead authors of a paper demonstrating how biology can help systematically expand the molecular design space for advanced, recyclable materials. Read post
Spraying Fungicide to Protect the Crop in Minnesota
Root Applied Sciences has set up spore capture devices across the southern tier of Minnesota. The company developed its approach while pioneering detection and treatment for diseases that affect grapevines at vineyards. To protect their valuable produce, winemakers were spraying numerous times across a growing season. Root Applied Sciences developed a way of detecting and modeling infection that allowed those growers to cut their application in half. Read postOur affiliates
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Startups need to focus on making milestones, not managing equipment.
Bakar Bio Labs maintains tissue culture facilities, a freezer farm, fume hoods, basic benchtop equipment and plenty of analytical instruments. Optional lab support services can also make for quick starts that help get results fast.
At UC Berkeley
Bakar Bio Labs is just steps from UC Berkeley’s world-renowned faculty and more than 40,000 students who train in top programs including science, engineering, law and business. Dotting the campus is a network of core facilities that feature a wide range of advanced equipment and services for use by startups. Recruiting student talent and scientific co-founders couldn’t be easier.
Today’s best startups blaze a trail all their own, but they don’t do it alone.
They build their support network to help them navigate the multiple challenges they face. At Bakar Bio Labs, tenants join a community of as many as 50 like-minded teams willing to share the scientific and business insights that help them advance. The incubator spans more than 40,000 square feet of lab and office spaces within the fully renovated Woo Hon Fai Hall, the iconic former home of the Berkeley Art Museum. With so much going on, investors, industry partners and new talent are already taking notice.
Built for startups. For more than 20 years, QB3 has been the University of California’s center for innovation and entrepreneurship in life science. Through pitch summits, seminars, symposia, podcasts, office hours, internships, and workshops QB3 educates, connects, and elevates the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
