Page Where Are They Now? Episode 4 Episode 4: Simple Mills May 6, 2021 Katlin Smith, founder and CEO of Simple Mills, wowed her first buyer with a muffin recipe using almond flour. Now the Chicago-based natural...
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...
Technology New Platform For Targeted Immunomodulation And Vaccine Development There have been significant research efforts to develop effective vaccines that elicit a strong and durable T cell response against intracellular pathogens and cancer. A popular strategy has been to…
Technology Nanovaccine That Activates The NLRP3 Inflammasome & Enhances Tumor Specific Activation Of Anti-Cancer Immunity A major attention of vaccine adjuvant development has been focused on development of robust antibody-mediated protection against pathogens. However, such adjuvants have failed to elicit a robust T-cell mediated protection…
Technology Novel Nano-Formulation For Multi-TLR Agonists To Boost Immune Responses Against Solid Tumors Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists are considered promising alternatives for the estimated 50 – 75% of all cancer patients who are non-responsive to checkpoint inhibitors, and immune activation is enhanced upon…
Technology Small Molecule Therapeutics For Inducing Trained Innate Immunity And Enhanced Anti-Tumor Responses Small molecule drugs developed to induce trained immunity in macrophage cells resulting in a heightened pro-inflammatory response without triggering a primary immune response The Unmet Need: Trained immunity induction that…
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…
News Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Christine Saffold Polsky Member Christine Saffold represents everything that makes the Polsky Exchange, as well as the South Side community as a whole, so strong.
News Polsky Center Hires Christine Karslake, MBA ’95, to Manage University of Chicago’s Portfolio of Science and Technology Ventures The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has hired Christine Karslake, PhD, MBA ’95, as Managing Director of Polsky Science Ventures. In this newly created...
News 6 Chicago Booth Students Honored with 2024 Student Entrepreneurship Awards Chicago Booth School of Business recently recognized six outstanding MBA students who demonstrated leadership in entrepreneurship, venture capital, or private equity during their time at school. The annual Student Entrepreneurship...
Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Financial Model Storytelling with Christina Hachikian February 19, 2026 Join the Polsky Center and Christina Hachikian, adjunct associate professor of strategic management at Chicago Booth and founder of Hatch Gemini, for an informative workshop on how to tell a...
Event Finding Fit and Your First Sale Workshop with Chris Sell March 26, 2026 As an entrepreneur, going from an idea to finding “fit” and then landing your first sale are the hardest steps in getting started. In this session, Chris Sell, cofounder of...
