Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Customer Success for Startups April 28, 2023 This workshop will provide entrepreneurs real time strategies on how to successfully engage with your customers. The following topics will be covered: Why is having a customer service strategy important?...
News How an Operating System Can Help Your Small Business Break Through Barriers The following article was written by Alex Hodgkin, entrepreneur-in residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on June 17, 2024. Read the original article. Small...
News 16 UChicago Researchers Awarded $7.2 Million from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago has funded its first cohort of Investigators at its partner institutions – including 16 researchers from the University of Chicago. The funding – a total...
News Transform Data Science and AI Accelerator Accepts 6 Startups into Latest Cohort The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute today announced the six early-stage companies accepted into the fourth cohort of the Transform accelerator for data science and AI startups. “This...
News ‘You Start with a Problem and Ambition’: One PhD Student’s Journey to Quantum Startup Founder Like most entrepreneurs, for Shankar Menon, the journey to launching his first company started with a problem and ambition. A quantum science and engineering graduate student at the University of...
News Meet the Inaugural Alchemist Chicago Cohort Alchemist Accelerator and the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation are thrilled to announce the inaugural cohort of Alchemist Chicago. Alchemist Chicago Cohort 1 is made up...
News The Hiring Process is Now an AI Arms Race, but There’s Still Room to Restore the Human Element The following article was written by Scott Holloway, general partner at Starting Line and entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on December 22, 2025....
Technology A Spatially Resolved Intracellular Photoproximity Profiling Technology For Mapping And Targeting Protein Interactions In Cancer A matched pair of photoproximity probes coupled with quantitative proteomics which enable context-dependent mapping of protein complex topology inside cells including to map MYC interactomes across temporal, spatial and disease-relevant…
Technology Deep Learning Uncertainty Quantification System For Reliable Cancer Histopathology Diagnosis Deep learning and uncertainty estimation (via Monte Carlo dropout and cross-validation) to classify digital pathology images by confidence, improving reliability in cancer diagnostics and supporting effective clinical decision-making The Unmet…
Technology A Platform for Developing High-Affinity Selective Binding Proteins to Short and Flexible Peptide Motifs Short and flexible peptide motifs such as GPCRs and histone tails are attractive targets for therapeutic development, but the generation of traditional antibodies against these targets remains a challenge because…
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 New Toolkit And Methods For Large-Scale Spatial Transcriptomics Tools and methods to map the entire transcriptome with large-scale histology sections from whole animal or whole human organs with high resolution and sensitivity The Unmet Need: Research tools to…
