You’re a grad student doing research with the potential to improve people’s lives, but you’re not sure how to take that next step. 

That’s where a couple opportunities from the UC’s Bakar Labs come in. Their mission is to support scientific innovation and entrepreneurship specifically for the public good.

The Labs’ BioEnginuity Impact Grant is for PhD students in STEM to turn their research into solutions for social problems, whether that’s moving your research into new directions or exploring commercialization. In addition to participating in extracurricular activities offered by Bakar Labs and QB3, grant recipients’ home department or PI will receive $40,000 per year for two years to cover the recipient’s GSR appointment and to supplement tuition and fees. The application deadline is this Sunday at 11:59pm.

Then there’s the Bakar Labs x SPINOUT Bootcamp. From March 13–15 at the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, Berkeley-affiliated “proto-founders” — including master’s and PhD students, postdocs, and PIs — will learn “investor-informed frameworks to assess commercial viability, technical risk, scale-up pathways, and founder readiness.” Applications for the no-cost bootcamp are also due by this Sunday.