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Dear Colleagues and Friends

We are excited to announce the launch of our first newsletterjust in time for summer

Our Mission The Office of Intellectual Property and IndustryResearch Alliances (IPIRA) manages Berkeleyrsquos IP portfolio andthe commercialization of game-changing technology solutionsIPIRA supports campus research by facilitating the flow offunding to Berkeley labs and fostering collaborations amongscientists entrepreneurs and corporations

Earlier this month 5 faculty members were selected to joinBerkeleys Bakar Fellows Program The programrecognizes innovative research by early career faculty at Caland is designed to assist researchers in introducing theirdiscoveries to market Acceptance to the program represents thestart of an entrepreneurial journey with each Bakar Fellowreceiving discretionary research support of $50000 per year fora maximum of five years and educational programs from IPIRAHaas Lester Center and Fung Institute

As we continue to roll out exciting programs to better supportinnovation throughout the Berkeley campus wed like to take amoment to highlight our staffs achievements Please join us incongratulating Eric Giegerichs promotion to Director of IndustryAlliances He will now oversee the IAO office Eric wasinstrumental in launching key industry affiliate programs oncampus including the iCyPhy research consortium for systemsengineering and the Mobile Millennium traffic researchpartnership Mobile Millennium led to data exchange and IPagreements with companies such as Nokia Navteq WazeRoadity and many others who were initially resistant to sharingdata Last month Eric also led IPIRAs technology exhibition atShanghais inaugural China Shanghai International TechnologyFair in coordination with local Berkeley Haas alumni andsuccessfully promoting Berkeleys brand and research capabilityin China Main fields of interest from these overseascorporations seeking technology collaborations were inengineering computer science material science energycleantech and manufacturing

Lastly IPIRA will now be hosting inventor office hours at StanleyHall every Thursday afternoon we invite anyone to come talk tous with questions Kathleen McCowin will be in Stanley 408b

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Subscribe toNewsletter shygt SignupIn This Issueshy Faculty Founder To Watchshy IPIRA Wins USPTO Awardshy Berkeley Technologies for Licenseshy New Programs and Milestones

AnnouncementsDownload our brand new brochureWant to work for us We are hiring

Meet Our TeamTECHNOLOGY TRANSFER (OTL)Carol MimuraMichael CohenKathleen McCowinCurt TheisenIrvin MettlerJaved AfzalOphelia Yeung

INDUSTRY ALLIANCES (IAO)Eric GiegerichLynne HollyerKevin ChristopherLeah Pierson

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SincerelyThe Berkeley IPIRA Team

FEATURED STORIES

Female Faculty Founder To WatchComputer security expert and MacArthur ldquogeniusrdquo Fellow

A Berkeley professor and researcher incomputer security Dawn Song foundedEnsighta Security in 2011 to developautomatic thirdshyparty security audit products forthe underserved Android market This yearEnsighta has been acquired by FireEye a VCshybacked cyber security firm in Silicon Valleywith $100 million in bookings and over 1000customers and partners Ensighta is aBerkeley Skydeck incubator startup and Dawnworked with our Office of TechnologyLicensing in the IP transfer process

Dawn Song (1st right) and Ensighta teamphoto credit Berkeley SkyDeck

Dawns research interest lies in computersecurity and privacy including softwaresecurity networking security database

security distributed systems security and applied cryptography She is the recipient of numerousawards such as the MacArthur Fellowship the Guggenheim Fellowship the NSF CAREER Award theAlfred P Sloan Research Fellowship the MIT Technology Review TRshy35 Award the IBM Faculty Awardthe inviteshyonly Google Focused Research Award for security research the George Tallman LaddResearch Award the Okawa Foundation Research Award the Li Ka Shing Foundation Women inScience Distinguished Lecture Series Award and Best Paper Awards from top conferences

IPIRA Wins 2013 USPTO Patent for Humanity AwardIts not just an invention its about saving lives

Our office won the Medical shy Medicines amp Vaccines category award alongside Gilead Sciences and areproudly the only university entity on the winners list Patents for Humanity is USPTOs award competitionto promote humanitarian uses of patented technologies to address global challenges in health andstandards of living The 2013 awards recognize 10 recipients in 5 different categories

Thanks to Berkeley professor Jay Keasling Sanofi Amyris Bill amp Melinda Gates Foundation ($533million total grant support) and IPIRA staff who made this possible

Read about Sanofis launch of antimalaria treatment based on Keaslings inventionRead about USPTO Patents for Humanity and our awardshywinning submission

Assistant Vice Chancellor Carol Mimura (1st left)photo credit USPTO

BERKELEY TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE FOR LICENSE

In the spirit of The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) which took place in San Franciscothis month we have handpicked below several mobile software technologies If you are interested inlicensing or research collaboration opportunities with IPIRA please contact ipiraberkeleyedu

MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES

First Practical ORAM for Concealing Access Patterns to Data on the Cloudgt cloud security | read more

Modeling Intrinsic Scene Properties from a Single Imagegt image reversion algorithm | read more

Low Cost Highly Accurate Traffic Monitoring Systemgt GPS mobile traffic monitoring | read more

Quadrature Frequency Modulated Gyroscopegt smart phone automotive | read more

OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

A Drift Corrected HighshyResolution Optical Trapgt bioinformatics nanotechnology | read more

Methodology for Solving in RealshyTime LinearProgramming Problems with Analog Circuitsgt MEMS electronics | read more

Smart Thermostat Designed for Smart Gridsgt smart grid | read more

Energy Efficient Personal Thermal Comfort Chairfor Commercial Workspaces Auditoriums andVehiclesgt thermal seating | read more

HEALTHCARE

SelfshyCleaning Laparoscopegt minimally invasive surgery | read more news

A Fully Integrated Microspectrometer with PhotonEnginegt disease screening | read more

Serological LipidshyAntibody Assay for MonitoringTuberculosis Treatment Response in Childrenand HIV Patientsgt diagnosis biomarker assay | read more

Live Imaging of Corneal Lymphatic Vesselsgt corneal imaging | read more

Photonic Gene Circuitsgt gene circuits | read more

NEW PROGRAMS AND OFFICE MILESTONES

BSAC Patent Program KickoffStarting this month IPIRA introduced a patent drafting service for the Berkeley Sensor amp Actuator Center(BSAC) initiated by Kathleen McCowin and with support from our postdoc intern Lowry Kirkby

iCyPhy UniversityshyIndustry Research CollaborationBerkeley and CalTech launched a iCyPhy industry affiliate program to disrupt systems engineeringOperations will be based at Berkeley IBM and United Technologies have joined as first members

Berkeley Received 1st Patent Award from EBIResearch on improved sugar transport for biofuel production has been granted the 1st patent resultingfrom our EBI collaboration UC Berkeley is a coshyowner of the patent The Energy Biosciences Institute(EBI) is supported by a $500-million 10-year award from BP Formed in 2007 It is a uniquecollaboration among four research partners UC Berkeley Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and BP

BayershyQB3 AgreementIn May 2013 the global drug giant signed a threeshyyear deal with QB3 and its seed stage venture fundMission Bay Capital The agreement provides funding and support to young companies working ondrugs and diagnostics in oncology cardiology hematology womenrsquos health and ophthalmology

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