News UChicago to Mentor Illinois Tech as Part of $6M NSF Program to Accelerate Research Translation The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will help support translational activities at the Illinois Institute of Technology as part of a $6 million investment from the...
Technology A Programmable Translational Activator Platform For Restoring Endogenous Protein Expression In Haploinsufficiency Disorders The CIRTS-4GT3 platform is a compact, programmable system that uses guide RNAs and human protein domains to boost production of specific proteins in cells, offering a safe and targeted therapy…
Technology Programmable Translational-Activating RNA Therapeutic Platform Technology Many human diseases arise from insufficient protein levels, often due to genetic mutations that result in haploinsufficiency or loss of protein function. Effectively treating these conditions necessitates therapeutic strategies capable…
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
News Focusing on Concrete Health Improvements Feature shot on story page: Professor Julian Solway, MD, conducts translational research that seeks to develop new treatments for asthma. Jasmin Nixon, summer student from Chicago State University (left) visiting...
News DeepTechU Day 1: Experts Talk Streamlining Tech Transfer, Accelerating Startup Success, and the Importance of Making Connections Juan de Pablo, Vice President for National Laboratories, Science Strategy, Innovation, and Global Initiatives at the University of Chicago, kicked off the first day of DeepTechU – which attracted a global...
News Translating Research into Products UChicagoTech, the University of Chicago’s Office of Technology and Intellectual Property, recently conducted its second in a series of Translation Events that bring industry experts to campus to advise faculty...
News Kent and Cohn Projects Funded in Pilot Innovation Fund Round The University of Chicago’s Office of Technology and Intellectual Property’s (UChicagoTech) new Innovation Fund reached an important milestone at the end of 2010 with the successful completion of a pilot...
Technology Engineered Mutator tRNAs For Correcting Missense Genetic Defects And Inducing Cancer Cell Death Engineered tRNAs with altered anticodons and chemical modifications deliver the correct amino acid at mutated codons to restore protein function in genetic diseases or induce lethal mistranslation in cancer cells,…
News Industry Experts Give Biomarker Researchers a ‘Reality Check’ Eileen Dolan, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Chair of Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago, says she learned a lot at the Translation Event covering...
News From Discovery to Dissemination: How a New Collaboration is Helping Get Knowledge ‘Out the Door’ Healthcare investment firm Deerfield Management recently visited the University of Chicago to meet with researchers and discuss Hyde Park Discovery, a new collaboration to advance discoveries from the lab. “I’m...
News Four UChicago Projects Advance in Chicago Biomedical Consortium Accelerator The latest cohort of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium Accelerator Network (CBCAN) program includes four teams from the University of Chicago. “This is the greatest number of UChicago projects to advance...
