Success is a Great Investment

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Success is a Great Investment

• David Gilbert
• 510.643.5542
• dgilbert_at_uclink.berkeley.edu
• http//ucdiscoverygrant.org

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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty
and harmony in lifes relationships, just as
the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the
window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.Soren
Kierkegaard (18131855), Danish philosopher.
The Challenge
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Lifeless in appearance, sluggishdazed spring
approaches

• William Carlos Williams (18831963)

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The OpportunitySpring is Upon Us!

• 20 million in matching funds available to seed
  for partnerships between UC faculty industry
  targeting high risk, early stage research.
• Enhance economic competitiveness
• Stimulate growth and investment
• Accelerate delivery of public benefits

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Funding Emerging Technology
Portfolio includes all 10 UC Campuses 3 UC
Managed National Labs

• Biotechnology
• Communications, Networking, Operating Systems
• Digital Media
• Electronics Manufacturing New Materials
• Life Sciences Information Technology
• Microelectronics

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Program Partnership
Matching
Investment
Industry
UC Laboratory
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Rules of Engagement

• Grant funds must be matched at least 11
• 1- to 4-year term
• Yearly investment ranges from 20K to 2M (but
  no upper limit)
• Up to 30 in-kind contribution allowed 40
  under a Major Program Award (multicampus)
• Proposals due in Feb, May, and Oct

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Rapid Access to Benefits

• Quick response (100 day turn-around)
• Easy on-line application process
• Peer review/industry validation

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Anatomy of the Process
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Benefits to Industry Sponsor

• Leverage scientific/technical expertise
• Pilot strategic RD direction
• Leverage RD funding
• Access UC facilities/infrastructure
• Exclusive access to intellectual property

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Benefits to UC Researchers

• Access to
• Company know-how
• Expensive equipment/reagents
• Economic information
• Fast-track patent applications
• Student/Post-doc experience with companies
  (leading to future jobs)

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Industry Sponsor Qualifications

• California-based
• Maintains RD or manufacturing facilities in
  California related to the proposed research
• California Agricultural Market Order Boards
• Not California-based
• Maintains RD alliance with a California company
  that is related to the proposed research
• Provides strong justification that the research
  will demonstrably benefit California agriculture

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Intellectual Property

• UC Title inventions arising from research
  conducted under the Research Agreement by UC
  scientists at UC facilities
• Exclusive License Industry Sponsors granted
  option to any patentable inventions conceived and
  first reduced to practice in the under the
  Research Agreement

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Who Has Participated
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Industry Participants FY 96-02
Employees Companies Sponsors
1-50 209 3351-500 143
22501-1000 33 51001 255
40 Total 640 100
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UC FacultyAsst. Professors 135
15 Assoc/Full Profs. 678 73DOE/campus
non-faculty 111 12Total 924
100UC StudentsUndergraduate 113
13Graduate 456 53Postdocs 297
34Total 866 100
UC Investigator/Student Impact
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How to Make it Happen
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Strategic Alliances

• Regional Technology Alliances (RTAs)
• CONNECT (UCSD, UCD, UCR)
• California Healthcare Institute (CHI)
• Bio E2E
• BayBio
• BIOCOM

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Portals to Partnership

• The California Institutes for Science
  Innovation
• QB3 The California Institute for
  Bioengineering, Biotechnology Quantitative
  Biomedical Research (UCSF, UCB, UCSC)
• CAL-(IT)2 The California Institute for
  Telecommunications Information Technology
  (UCSD, UCI)
• CNSI The California Nanosystems Institute (UCLA,
  UCSB)
• CITRIS The Center for Information Technology
  Research in the Interest of Society (UCB, UCD,
  UCM, UCSC)

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Selected Funded Biotech Projects

• High-Rate Anaerobic Digestion System for
  Biogasification of Organic Wastes
• Improved Recombinant Bacterial Insecticides
• Breast Cancer Vaccines from Plants
• Surface Characterization of Novel Biomaterials
• New Non-Fourier Processing Method for NMR
  Spectroscopy
• Cell-Based Therapeutics Treatment of Parkinsons
  Disease
• Controlled Differentiation of Pluripotent Stem
  Cells
• Preventing Telomere Shortening and Replicative
  Senescence in HIV-specific T cells
• Inhibition of Allergic Responses by Gene
  Immunotherapy
• Development of Bead-Embedded Technology for
  Biochip Fabrication

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Success is a Great Investment
David Gilbert 510.643.5542 dgilbert_at_uclink.berkele
y.edu http//ucdiscoverygrant.org