Bakar Award — UC Berkeley / UCSF Collaborative
Funds joint UC Berkeley and UCSF teams translating translational research into healthcare impact.
The UC Berkeley–UCSF Collaborative Bakar Award is administered by the Bakar Fellows Program, an initiative funded by the Bakar Family Foundation to catalyze commercialization of university research. The award funds joint teams composed of one UC Berkeley academic senate faculty member and one UCSF academic senate faculty member, supporting translational STEM+ research with a defined commercial pot…
STEM+ translational research with commercial potential pursued jointly by UC Berkeley and UCSF academic senate faculty teams.
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