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Molecular Therapeutics Initiative

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Molecular Therapeutics Initiative at UC Berkeley

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🌍What if we could paralyze parasites - without harming human cells? 2025 MTI Innovator Dr. Matt Welch is targeting kinesin motor proteins in Trypanosoma brucei to develop new therapies for African sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases. New hope for the world’s most

🌍What if we could paralyze parasites - without harming human cells?

2025 MTI Innovator Dr. Matt Welch is targeting kinesin motor proteins in Trypanosoma brucei to develop new therapies for African sleeping sickness and other neglected diseases.

New hope for the world’s most
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Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty and Molecular Therapeutics Initiative member James Olzmann for receiving the Beatriz Manz award for 'transformational teaching and community service'. Glad to have you as a friend and colleague UC Berkeley , James!

Congratulations to #MolecularTherapeutics faculty and <a href="/MTI_UCB/">Molecular Therapeutics Initiative</a>  member <a href="/OlzmannLab/">James Olzmann</a>  for receiving the Beatriz Manz award for 'transformational teaching and community service'. Glad to have you as a friend and colleague <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a> , James!
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🧪 Can we teach cancer cells to take out their own trash? 2025 MTI Innovators Rumi Sherriff (PhD candidate) & Dr. James Olzmann are designing molecular glues to induce degradation of mutant lipid kinases - drivers in deadly blood cancers. #MTIAwards #CancerResearch

🧪 Can we teach cancer cells to take out their own trash?

2025 MTI Innovators Rumi Sherriff (PhD candidate) &amp; Dr. James Olzmann are designing molecular glues to induce degradation of mutant lipid kinases - drivers in deadly blood cancers.

#MTIAwards #CancerResearch
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🚨 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. The case now heads back for reconsideration. Dr. Jennifer Doudna, original co-inventor and MTI board member is still leading the

🚨 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. The case now heads back for reconsideration.
Dr. Jennifer Doudna, original co-inventor and MTI board member is still leading the
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Thank you to Michael Ward for presenting his amazing science today addressing urgent problems in neurodegenerative disease at a joint #MolecularTherapeutics, Molecular Therapeutics Initiative, and Neuroscience talk at UC Berkeley today! Great science helping patients is more important than ever!

Thank you to Michael Ward for presenting his amazing science today addressing urgent problems in neurodegenerative disease at a joint #MolecularTherapeutics, <a href="/MTI_UCB/">Molecular Therapeutics Initiative</a>, and Neuroscience talk at <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a> today! Great science helping patients is more important than ever!
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🧬 Big things are happening at UC Berkeley! Come to “Hardly Strictly Synapses” - a one-day symposium celebrating the new Neuroscience Department 🎉 📅 June 3 | 9 - 4:30 | Li Ka Shing 🎤 Nobel Laureate Thomas Südhof, Eric Gouaux + top neuro speakers 💡 Student talks, molecular

🧬 Big things are happening at UC Berkeley!

Come to “Hardly Strictly Synapses” - a one-day symposium celebrating the new Neuroscience Department 🎉

📅 June 3 | 9 - 4:30 | Li Ka Shing
 🎤 Nobel Laureate Thomas Südhof, Eric Gouaux + top neuro speakers
 💡 Student talks, molecular
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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

Excited to announce a new collaboration between the Molecular Therapeutics Initiative (MTI) and Amgen  Inc.! This partnership includes funding for cutting-edge research &amp; an internship program for grad students to train in drug discovery &amp; development at Amgen.  #MTI #Amgen
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Big congrats to MTI and MTx faculty member Markita Landry (UC Berkeley) 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/two… #MTI #Neurotech

Big congrats to MTI and MTx faculty member Markita Landry (<a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a>) 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/two…

#MTI #Neurotech
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🚀 Bay Area Biotech Day lands UC Berkeley 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! 🧬🥂

🚀 Bay Area Biotech Day lands <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a> 7/22! Hear Nobel Laureate Carolyn Bertozzi + leaders from Denali Therapeutics, Calico Labs, Frontier Medicines &amp; more leaders in biotechnology unveil the next wave in drug discovery. Scan the QR on the flyer to register now! 🧬🥂
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Rare genetic diseases are challenging for patients and their families—made all the more overwhelming because symptoms tend to appear soon after birth. But there's a new source of hope for many of these families: the Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures at the University of

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Big news: We’re proud to support the launch of the Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley which will bring personalized CRISPR cures to children with rare genetic diseases. 🔗 chanzuckerberg.com/newsroom/cente…

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🚀 MTI member & board advisor Jennifer Doudna & Priscilla Chan launch UC San Francisco Center for Pediatric #CRISPR Cures with $20M from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. First 8 kids set for custom gene edits - built on #BabyKJ success. Read: time.com/7300257/center… #GeneTherapy #RareDisease

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🚨 Bay Area Biotech Day hits UC Berkeley next week (7/22)! Hear Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi + leaders from Denali, Calico, Frontier, Nurix, Arcus & more on the next wave of drug discovery. 🧬 Posters, panels & networking. #Biotech #DrugDiscovery #UCBerkeley

🚨 Bay Area Biotech Day hits <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a> next week (7/22)!

Hear Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi + leaders from Denali, Calico, Frontier, Nurix, Arcus &amp; more on the next wave of drug discovery.

🧬 Posters, panels &amp; networking.
#Biotech #DrugDiscovery #UCBerkeley
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Grateful to everyone who brought #BayAreaBiotechDay to life yesterday at UC Berkeley! 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!

Grateful to everyone who brought #BayAreaBiotechDay to life yesterday at <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a>! 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!