🏆 For the third year in a row, PitchBook has ranked UC Berkeley as the world’s top university for producing venture-backed startups: 1,650 companies, 1,804 founders, and the highest number of female founders. The MTI is proud to be part of this momentum. #PitchBook2025 #UCBerkeley #Biotech #MTI

🔬 The future of biotech is female… and global. We just wrapped up a strategic advisory session for female founders as part of a program for international entrepreneurs. From cancer immunotherapy to non-resistant antibiotics, they’re building what’s next 🧪 #WomenInBiotech #MolecularTherapeutics

🫀 Organos, a @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social startup from Kevin Healy’s lab, advised by MTI Executive Director Dr. Julia Schaletzky, just secured a $2M NIH SBIR Phase IIB grant! Their platform uses engineered heart tissue + analytics to transform cardiac drug discovery. #biotech #cardiology #NIH

If you're into startups, innovation, or university impact, don’t miss this. Startup Campus chronicles @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social's rise as a global startup hub, with named contribution from the MTI's executive director, Dr. Julia Schaletzky. Learn more at news.berkeley.edu/2025/09/02/n...

Check out this recap of Berkeley's recent inaugural Bay Area Biotech Day which brought communities together to foster collaboration and accelerate the translation of cutting-edge biological discoveries into life-changing therapeutics! 🧪 @mti-ucb.bsky.social mcb.berkeley.edu/news-and-eve...

📣 IGI & Aditum Bio launch the IGI Incubator Program (IIP) for UC Berkeley PIs working on novel therapeutics & enabling platforms. Grants $200-400K + mentoring. 2-3 page proposals due Sept 15 2025. Details: innovativegenomics.org/igi-incubato... @innovativegenomics.bsky.social

🚀 MTI & affiliate labs at @UCBerkeley welcomed teens from the Lawrence Hall Of Science’s Teen Research Program for hands‐on tours - from their first PCRs to high‐throughput compound‐screening. Big thanks to every mentor who made STEM pathways feel real! 🌟🔬 #ScienceOutreach #MTI

🧬📈 The UC Regents approved the IGI-Bakar Labs building, expanding lab space for the @innovativegenomics.bsky.social - founded by MTI board member Jennifer Doudna - and building out Bakar Labs - championed by MTI ally David Schaffer. 📰 Read more at inspire.berkeley.edu/o/crispr-res...

Grateful to everyone who brought #BayAreaBiotechDay to life yesterday at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social! It was incredible to see the energy in the room and the cutting-edge advances shared by leaders in both academia and industry. Excited to see what’s next for biotech!

🚨 Bay Area Biotech Day hits @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social next week! Hear from leaders at Denali, Frontier, Nurix & more on the future of drug discovery. 🧬 Posters, panels & networking. #Biotech #DrugDiscovery #UCBerkeley

MTI advisor and board member @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social just teamed up with the @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to unveil UCSF’s Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures. First up: 8 children receiving custom edits after Baby KJ’s landmark treatment. Details: time.com/7300257/cent... #CRISPR #RareDisease

Out now in TIME — @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social on IGI's new initiative, teaming up with the @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to create a new center for pediatric #CRISPR cures! Read here: ow.ly/E5un50WnbCi

A new Pediatric Center for CRISPR Cures builds on the recent saved life of Baby KJ, who expeditiously had bespoke in vivo base genome editing @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @doudna-lab.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social erictopol.substack.com/p/new-center...

We're excited to announce that the IGI is teaming up with @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to create a new center for pediatric #CRISPR cures @UCSF + @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social building on the recent success of an on-demand CRISPR therapy for Baby KJ. Read more: ow.ly/XUQH50Wmt7U

🚀 Bay Area Biotech Day lands at #UCBerkeley 7/22! Hear Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi + leaders from Denali Therapeutics, Calico Labs, Frontier Medicines & more leaders in biotechnology unveil the next wave in drug discovery. Scan the QR on the flyer to register now! 🧬🥂

Big congrats to MTI and MTx faculty member Markita Landry on winning a Guggenheim Fellowship! Her new project explores plant-based compounds from Indigenous Bolivian medicine as potential neurotherapeutics. 🌿🧠 🔗 news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/22/t... #MTI #Neurotech #Guggenheim #UCBerkeley

Excited to announce a new collaboration between the Molecular Therapeutics Initiative (MTI) and Amgen Inc.! This partnership includes funding for cutting-edge research & an internship program for grad students to train in drug discovery & development at Amgen. #MTI #Amgen #Biotech #UCB

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is launching the Chancellor’s Fund - a VC fund backing startups from the UC ecosystem, with all returns flowing back into the university. www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...

Congratulations James! From basic discovery to drugging it in such a short time! Amazing work out of #MolecularTherapeutics @mti-ucb.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social!!!

🧠 Don’t miss it! Hardly Strictly Synapses 🗓️ June 3 | 9 - 4:30 | UC Berkeley 🎤 Südhof (Nobel), Gouaux, Chen, Gomez, and more ✨ Celebrating 1 year of Berkeley Neuro 📍 125 LKS | FREE entry Scan flyer QR to register! #Neuroscience #Berkeley #Synapse #NeuroTwitter

Fantastic MTx-Neuro seminar by Michael Ward @michael-e-ward.bsky.social, incredible science and full house! @mti-ucb.bsky.social

Thank you to Michael Ward for presenting his amazing science addressing urgent problems in neurodegenerative disease at a joint #MolecularTherapeutics, @mti-ucb.bsky.social, and Neuroscience talk at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social today! Great science helping patients is more important than ever!

🚨 Big win for Berkeley in the CRISPR patent battle: A federal appeals court says the USPTO got it wrong - Broad’s patent claims were legally flawed. Case now heads back for reconsideration. Dr. Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor and MTI board member, is still leading the way. #CRISPR #MTI #UCberkeley

🧪 Meet 2025 MTI Innovators Rumi Sherriff & Dr. James Olzmann! They’re developing molecular glues that coax cancer cells into degrading mutant lipid kinases - drivers in aggressive blood cancers. From AI-driven target discovery to real biochemical action, this is next-gen translational science.

Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty and @mti-ucb.bsky.social member @olzmannlab.bsky.social for receiving the Beatriz Manz award for 'transformational teaching and community service'. Glad to have you as a friend and colleague @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social, James!

🌍 Meet Dr. Matt Welch, 2025 MTI Innovator Awardee! His lab is developing selective inhibitors of parasite-specific kinesins - a new and safer strategy to treat African sleeping sickness and related diseases. A leap forward in neglected tropical disease drug discovery. #MTI #GlobalHealth

🧫 Meet Dr. Jim Hurley, 2025 MTI Innovator Awardee! His lab is unlocking the druggable potential of the ESCRT system - an essential pathway once considered too complex to target in cancer. From deep structural biology to novel screens, this is drug discovery done differently. #MTI #CancerTherapeutics

🧠 Meet Dr. Ehud Isacoff, 2025 MTI Innovator Awardee! His lab is using FRET-based biosensors to find compounds that fine-tune glutamate receptors - unlocking new treatments for depression, including hard-to-treat cases. A new era of brain-targeted molecular therapeutics. #MTI #Neurobiology #FRET

Thank you to @brentstockwell.bsky.social of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social for visiting #MolecularTherapeutics at @mti-ucb.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and presenting a tour-de-force through the ferroptosis field!

🧬 Meet Dr. Liana Lareau, 2025 MTI Innovator Awardee! Her lab is using CRISPR + machine learning to reprogram RNA and silence toxic genes - offering hope for retinitis pigmentosa & beyond. A new era of mutation-agnostic therapeutics. #MTI #CRISPR #RNA moleculartherapeutics.org/2025-mti-inn...

Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty and @mti-ucb.bsky.social member Markita Landry on winning a Guggenheim Fellowship! So cool to work with such amazing colleagues on a daily basis! news.berkeley.edu/2025/04/22/t...

🚀 Excited to announce that MTI Executive Director Julia Schaletzky and 2025 Innovator Awardee Jim Hurley will both be presenting at the UC Drug Discovery Consortium 2025 Symposium! Learn more: www.ucdrugdiscovery.org/2025-symposium #DrugDiscovery #MTI

Wonderful talk by @rushika-perera.bsky.social of @ucsfhealth.bsky.social today in our @mti-ucb.bsky.social/#MolecularTherapeutics seminar series at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social today, presenting cool data about organ-selective metastasis! Thank you!!!

New paper from @mti-ucb.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social faculty member @robzonculab.bsky.social ! Congratulations!!!

🧬 Announcing the 2025 Innovator Awardees! Proud to support 6 researchers with $90K + resources. 🔬Lareau: CRISPR for retinitis pigmentosa 🧪Hurley: Cancer inhibitors ✨Sherriff & Olzmann: Molecular glues 🥼Welch: Sleeping sickness 🧫Isacoff: Fast-acting antidepressants Advancing innovation at Berkeley