News Fellowship Connects UChicago Students with Cleantech Startups: Meet Cohort 2 The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced Cohort 2 of the Resurgence Fellowship – a program connecting students with startups in its cleantech accelerator. The program is supported by...
News Oncology Startup Takes Home First Place at 2023 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge as Judges Award $1.4M in Total Investment Alnair Therapeutics, a startup developing a platform technology to improve the delivery of drugs to difficult-to-treat cancers, has won first place in the 27th Annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New...
Event Investing Essentials: Post-Transaction Management May 8, 2024 Join the Polsky Center Investor-in-Residence Dipa Mehta, MBA ’12, Managing Partner, Cobalt Ventures for a panel discussion on post-transaction management. Dipa will be joined by panelists Kelsey Tsai, MBA ’20, and...
Technology Next-Generation Activity-Based Radiotracer For In Vivo Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging And Therapy Cancer cells show alterations in metabolism that support malignancy and disease progression. Prominent among these metabolic changes is elevations in neutral ether lipids (NELs). The lipid hydrolase neutral cholesterol ester…
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...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 1 Episode 1: The Story of NVC April 15, 2021 When it launched 25 years ago, the University of Chicago’s New Venture Challenge (NVC) was a pioneer in helping business school...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 3 Episode 3: BenchPrep April 29, 2021 Ashish Rangnekar, MBA ’11, grew up in a sleepy town in India where success looked like a white-collar job, not entrepreneurship. But early on...
Technology Gene Splice-Switching Technology for Treating CACNA1A-Associated Neurological Diseases This technology regulates the expression of the CACNA1A gene, which encodes a neuronal calcium channel subunit, by redirecting alternative splicing to treat related neurological diseases. This approach can potentially correct…
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 8 Episode 8: PrettyQuick June 3, 2021 Coco Meers’ career has centered on helping women look and feel their best. When she caught the entrepreneurship bug and looked for a pain...
Event Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Workshop: How Searching and Operating Impacts Family Life October 28, 2025 Join Beth Davis, Christine Nelson, and Barbie Bewerunge for a discussion on how searching and 0perating impacts family life. All three are partners of current ETA operators or searchers and...
News Polsky Center’s Life Science Launchpad Partners with Faculty to Launch Startups In 2014, the Bunning Food Allergy Professor Cathryn Nagler and her team discovered a potential treatment for food allergies.
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