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Edge in Tech Symposium: Advancing Health Tech for All
Happening March 8: The Bakar Fellows Program is sponsoring Edge in Tech's symposium. Register now and be part of a day filled with inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and a chance to contribute to the critical discourse on health tech innovation for all.
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Pieter Abbeel: Removing a Major Memory Bottleneck for AI Models
Pieter Abbeel co-authored a research paper with a Google data scientist and the CTO of Databricks, Matei Zaharia, demonstrating that by removing a major memory bottleneck for AI models, they could enable models to process millions of words as opposed to hundreds of thousands — the maximum of the most capable models before Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro.
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Bakar Fellow Phil Messersmith Advances Toward Effective IBD Therapies
Phil Messersmith's Bakar project uses inspiration from nature to develop therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.
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Research led by Michael Rape finds stressed-out brain cells lead to neurodegenerative disease
Featured in Berkeley News, Michael Rape's research suggests that constant stress triggered by clumping proteins is killing brain cells.
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Ashok Gadgil Elected to National Academy of Inventors
Ashok Gadgil has received one of the highest honors reserved for inventors, along with UC Berkeley engineering professor Boris Rubinsky.
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Bakar Fellow Julian Rees Joins US Department of Energy Funded Project for Sustainability and Economic Resilience
HOPO Therapeutics has partnered with Umaro in a $1.78 million project funded by the Department of Energy to sustainably extract rare earth elements from seaweed.
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Bakar Project Makes History: YourChoice Therapeutics Begins First In-Human Trial for Male Birth Control Pill
Nadja Mannowetz, a Bakar Innovation Fellow and former senior researcher in Polina Lishko's lab, has turned a Bakar project into a successful company that is now starting clinical trials.
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