Program Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Experience the venture capital process firsthand through the world’s largest venture capital investment competition.
Page Business Consulting and Internships Business Consulting and Internships The Polsky Center connects College students with entrepreneurs and small business owners on Chicago’s South and West sides. Students play an important role in advising community...
News The Polsky Center Welcomes the 2025 Innovate2Market Cohort The Polsky Center is welcoming the latest cohort of Innovate2Market, a five-week program designed to help community inventors and innovators explore the commercial potential and impact of their products and...
Technology Small Molecule Immunopotentiator Conjugates of NF-KB Activators as Adjuvants With Enhanced Efficacy And Reduced Toxicity Imidazoquinolinone derivatives that activate Toll-like receptor (TLR) 7/8 are small molecule immune potentiators (SMIPs) that have potent activity as vaccine adjuvants and as anti-tumor agents. However, these molecules have high…
News Polsky Center Announces 2018 Summer Accelerator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to...
News Polsky Accelerator Program Concludes with Demo Day For the past 10 weeks, 14 companies have participated in the 2018 Polsky Accelerator program. The annual program is designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to develop their ventures....
News Newest Members of the Polsky Incubator Selected The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the teams moving into the Polsky Incubator, which is located at the Polsky Center’s 34,000 square foot coworking space,...
News AI-Powered physIQ Inks DOD Contract to Support COVID-19 Research The digital health company physIQ is using FDA-cleared artificial intelligence-based analytics to analyze data from COVID-19 patients and those at high risk of exposure. A Chicago Booth alumni and past...
News AbbVie Joins UChicago to Talk Oncology Research, Ongoing Collaboration, and Opportunities for Expansion The annual UChicago-AbbVie Research Symposium in August celebrated another successful year of the strategic partnership – bringing together academia and industry to exchange new ideas and drive innovation. The event...
News Polsky Center I-Corps Teams Test Commercialization Potential of Research The Polsky I-Corps program helps scientists, researchers, and students test the commercial potential of their research and ideas. Supported with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Great...
News New PET Scan Tech to Expand Patient Access, Improve Early Disease Detection Innovation out of the University of Chicago reduces the radiation levels and high costs associated with PET scans – enabling routine screening for the early detection of disease. Currently, PET...
News Polsky Center Pilots Proof-of-Concept Fund to Accelerate Tech Commercialization The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has launched a new “Proof-of-Concept Fund” to support University of Chicago researchers in de-risking early-stage technologies. “By providing funding to bridge the gap...
