The Regents had an off-cycle meeting of the Special Committee on Innovation Transfer & Entrepreneurship last Thursday. Nobody signed up for public comments. As always, we have preserved the recording since the Regents - for no particular reason - delete their recordings after one year.
Nobel Prize winning UC-Berkeley faculty member Jennifer Doudna - known for her work on the CRISPR gene editing process - spoke about that process, her institute at Berkeley, and a company she started. She noted that there is testing going on for a cure through gene editing of sickle cell disease. Indeed, it has already been done. Currently, it costs on the order of $2 million but she described work which she hopes will bring down the cost to something like $100,000. Her presentation and subsequent Q&A runs from minute 6:20 for a little over an hour. Blog readers will find that presentation of special interest.
The concluding session featured a group of student entrepreneurs - most from UCLA - describing their activities.
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