News Automated Investment App Investable Takes First Place Prize of $50,000 at the 17th Annual Global New Venture Challenge The 17th Annual Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) has awarded first place to Investable, an automated robo-advisor app linked to your payroll which makes investing effortless. The app deducts a...
News UChicago Researchers Honored with Prestigious Innovation Awards University of Chicago Assistant Professor Chibueze Amanchukwu and PhD candidates Pengju Li and Shawn Shan were recently recognized for their groundbreaking innovations. Shawn Shan, 26, has been named MIT Technology...
News 21 Teams Tackling Innovations in Quantum, Healthcare, AI, and More Take First Steps Toward Commercialization Twenty-one teams from across the University of Chicago and local institutions participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this year – identifying and addressing real-world problems in seven weeks, work...
News The Power of a Shared Ecosystem: 27 Midwest Startups Pitch at Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University came together to bring 27 deep tech startups in front of investors on the West Coast. The private, invite-only...
News Polsky Center and Chicago Booth Private Equity Group Host 25th Annual PE Conference Investors, students, and industry leaders gathered last week for the 25th Annual Chicago Booth Private Equity Conference, a day-long event exploring the evolving dynamics of private equity investing and value...
Technology Tunable High-Q Superconducting mm-Wave Cavities Cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics systems provide unprecedented control over photonic quantum states via coupling to strongly nonlinear single emitters. The millimeter (mm) wave frequency band is of great interest…
Technology Diagnostic For Predicting Hospital-Acquired Infections And Identifying Causative Organisms The technology is a fecal microbiome metabolite profile that can predict hospital-acquired infections and identify the causative organisms. This method efficiently measures specific chemical metabolites produced by bacteria in the…
Technology Data-Driven Discovery Of Innate Immunomodulators Via Machine Learning-Guided High Throughput Screening Novel machine learning-enable platform to guide in vitro experimental screening and discovery of small molecule immunomodulators to improve immune responses The unmet need: Platform to resolve unregulated immune potentiator…
Technology Improved Ex Vivo Models Of Pancreatic Cancer Using Tumor-Relevant Nutrient Conditions Tumor Interstitial Fluid Medium (TIFM) is a pancreatic tumor-mimetic cell culture formulation, paired with matched murine PDAC cell lines adapted in either TIFM or RPMI-1640, that is designed to model…
