Program guidelines

• PhD level graduate students will be supported by the Bakar BioEnginuty Hub – Campus Programs to do research for 10 hrs/week for six months in a Bakar Labs Incubator startup company.

• To be eligible, graduate students need to need to have completed their first two years and be advanced to candidacy. Your internship will be a 25% appointment concurrent with your 50% GSR appointment.

• As a graduate student, you will continue to work on your current graduate thesis project, which cannot overlap in the same IP space as a project proposed by a Bakar Lab tenant company. This arrangement protects both the tenant company and the intern’s campus laboratory.

• The funding for the research internship appointment is covered by UC Berkeley, however the research project will be done on behalf of the company. Therefore, we have established a mechanism by which any new IP developed will not be subject to the UC Berkeley Employee Intellectual Property Agreement. Therefore, any new IP generated by the research intern will remain the property of the Bakar Lab tenant company.

• As part of your application, you will need a statement of support from your thesis advisor stating they understand you will have a 25% (equal to 10 hrs/week) additional appointment for 6 months, and this 25% time will be spent doing research outside of your campus lab during normal working hours.

• As a participant in this program, you will meet periodically with the BBH GRIP faculty advisor and BBH-Campus Programs Managing Director and agree to participate in entrepreneurship educational opportunities offered by Bakar Labs.

• Graduate students can apply to several research projects, and after their applications are reviewed to ensure there is no overlapping IP between their campus lab and the tenant company(ies) of interest, their application(s) will be forward for consideration. Companies will be responsible for interviewing and selecting their final research intern.

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Contact BBHGraduateInternship@berkeley.edu for additional information.

Program guidelines

• PhD level graduate students will be supported by the Bakar BioEnginuity – Campus Programs to do research for 10-hours/week for six months in your Bakar Lab startup company.

• The research intern will need to be provided a bench and/or desk space in your current space allocation. Each company is allowed one research intern per 6 month term.

• A research intern’s graduate thesis project, which the student intern will continue to work on concurrently, cannot overlap in the same IP space as the research project proposed by the Bakar Lab tenant company.  This arrangement protects both the tenant company and the intern’s campus laboratory.

• The funding for the research internship appointments is covered by UC Berkeley, but the work will be done on behalf of your company. We have established a mechanism by which any new IP developed will not be subject to the UC Berkeley Employee Intellectual Property Agreement, and will remain the property of the Bakar Lab tenant company.

• The company needs to provide a description of the research project (omitting any IP-sensitive information, yet detailed enough to determine there is no potential conflict with a graduate student’s ongoing thesis research), required research expertise/background, expected outcomes within the scope of the project, and the name of the supervisor for the research intern.

• Interested graduate students will apply to your posted position and BBH will review the graduate student applications and company project scope to ensure no IP conflicts or overlap. The applications will then be released to your company for you to interview and select your research intern.

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Contact BBHGraduateInternship@berkeley.edu for additional information.