Bioengineering Graduate Program members Jose Carmena, Amy Herr, and Michel Maharbiz have been named to the inaugural cohort of Bakar Fellows at UC Berkeley. 
The Bakar Fellows Program supports innovative research by early career faculty at UC Berkeley with a special focus on projects that hold commercial promise in the fields of Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences or multidisciplinary work in these disciplines.
Faculty members selected as Bakar Fellows each receive discretionary research support for a maximum of five years. In addition, the Fellows become part of and contribute to an ecosystem that brings together faculty, post-docs, students, staff and alumni to form a strong network that assists researchers in introducing their discoveries to the market.