Bakar Award
Funds UC Berkeley STEM faculty moving research discoveries toward commercially viable products and services.
The Bakar Award is a three-year faculty fellowship administered by the Bakar Fellows Program at UC Berkeley, funded by the Bakar Family Foundation. Awards provide $100,000 per year per principal investigator for three years, totalling $300,000, to UC Berkeley academic senate faculty whose research has commercial translation potential across engineering, computer science, chemistry, biological scie…
STEM+ research with commercial translation potential across engineering, computer science, chemistry, biological sciences, physical sciences, and architecture at UC Berkeley.
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