Event Distinguished Entrepreneur Series: Greycroft and Apax Partners Cofounder Alan Patricof February 23, 2023 Join the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago for a Distinguished Entrepreneur Speaker Series Event featuring Apax Partners Founder and Greycroft Cofounder, Alan Patricof, in...
News UChicago Advances Cancer Research Through Partnership with AbbVie On campus and beyond, the University of Chicago community is constantly striving to innovate and drive discovery through research and development. In the field of oncology, there is no exception....
News Mentoring Program to Bridge Gap Between Ideas and Innovation The inaugural event of the new Chicago Innovators Mentors program matched experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and domain experts with innovating faculty from multiple institutions. Left to right: Mentor Dan Schmitt, Jim...
News Discovery Matters Alan Thomas, Director, UChicagoTech, Ellen Rudnick, Executive Director and Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Polsky Center, Keith Moffat, Deputy Provost for Research, Donald Levy, Vice President for Research and...
News Polsky Accepts Record-Breaking 20 Teams for Summer Accelerator Program The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has accepted 20 teams, the most ever, for its Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit ventures....
News Veteran-run Startup Rumi Spice Gets Chance in ‘Shark Tank’ The founders of Chicago startup Rumi Spice have been to war. But the thought of facing a panel of celebrity investors had them quaking, said Kimberly Jung, who, along with...
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...
News Making Disc Drives Smaller, Faster, More Stable University Provost Thomas Rosenbaum and Daniel Silevitch, Research Scientist, James Franck Institute, stand inside a shielded room, used to screen out radio interference from outside. To the left is the...
News Reluctant Renaissance Man Even though Olaf Schneewind operates seamlessly in many overlapping scientific, academic and corporate circles, he denies being a Renaissance Man. “I’m just a complete workaholic, 365 days of the year,”...
News New Chief Marketing Officer Takes Strategic View While Divya Varshney attended the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, earning her master’s of business administration in 1999, she was not even aware of UChicagoTech. Recently named to...
News Ice Slurry Research Pays Off for a Cleaner Environment “Twenty years ago, Argonne and the DOE must have had a crystal ball to develop an environmentally friendly refrigeration system that could meet today’s urgent demand for ‘green’ technologies,” says...
News Cultivating Partners Whether it comes to medical devices, therapeutics or pharmaceuticals, Richard Ganz brings a rich background, widespread knowledge and 30 years of experience to help University of Chicago researchers translate their...
