CET Technology Breakthrough Competition winners

On November 15, 2006 at UC Berkeley, the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology held the 3rd annual Technology Breakthrough Competition. The evening began with a discussion of the challenges facing the Silicon Valley in the context of the global economy with Steve Domenik, General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Lip-Bu Tan, Founder & Chairman, Walden International. Afterward, guests had a chance to talk with the finalists about their world-changing research and meet other members of UC Berkeley entrepreneurial community. The evening closed with an announcement of the winners (see below).

Low-Cost Disposable Genome Chip Information Technology Winner!
The goal of this research is to use organic transistors to realize an ultra-low cost, disposable, fast and easy-to-use gene chip that could tap into the disease diagnosis market. Organic electronics-based gene detection circuitry can be integrated cheaply into a low-density genome chip to allow for direct electronic readout of genome chips, cutting out the cost of expensive optical readout equipment that is currently used. Once such a genome chip is made available, people could get hospital gene tests just as easily as a simple blood test or urine test.

Daniel Huang Ph.D. Candidate
Qintao Zhang Ph.D. Candidate
Vivek Subramanian Assoc. Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department
This team is from the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department

 

SeroScreen: A Disposable Microdevice for Point-of-Care Diagnostics Science Winner!
SeroScreen is the result of a focus on the development of a portable and inexpensive diagnostic platform for third world screening of dengue fever.  The device uses a simple electrical detection scheme which allows for a flexible low cost system.

J. Tanner Nevill, Ph.D. Candidate
Nicholas Toriello, Ph.D. Candidate
This team is from the Bioengineering Department

More information about this event can be found at http://cet.berkeley.edu/breakthrough.htm 

 

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