“Most venture capital gets invested in Silicon Valley and Boston, and thus shortchanges the rest of the country for entrepreneurial financing,” said study senior author Lee Fleming, faculty director of the Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership at UC Berkeley. “But crowdfunding has opened up funding to everyone else.” Read full article: Crowdfunding expands innovation financing… Read More »

The College of Engineering and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2016-17 Cooper Fellowships, awarded this year to two students pursuing Master of Engineering degrees at UC Berkeley. Selected by the Dean of the College of Engineering, the Cooper Fellows are engineering graduate students, with a preference… Read More »

The Fung Fellowship for Wellness and Technology Innovations launched this Fall, kicking off with a one-week bootcamp that had students out on the streets of Berkeley uncovering digital health opportunities, pitching their own wellness technology concepts, and networking with community organizations. The Fellows also had the opportunity to meet the program funder Coleman Fung who… Read More »

The Fung Institute is happy to introduce Wayne Delker in his new role as the Director of the Capstone Experience. Wayne recently retired after 15 years at Clorox as Chief Innovation Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D. Prior to that he worked with GE in several R&D and Engineering roles, culminating as General Manager… Read More »

Taken from BioE website: http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/news/meng-team-wins-fung-institute-mission-award.  The Master of Engineering capstone team of  Alison Burkland, Daniel Campo, Dragos Puscalau, and Gregory Wohlleb — working with bioengineering professor Kevin Healy — received the 2016 Fung Institute Mission Award for their work on a Point of Care Low-Cost Approach for HIV Monitoring. This award is chosen by the staff at the… Read More »