News A Gut Check for Post-Op Infection: Covira Offers a Pro-Bacteria Approach Covira is a Chicago-based startup backed by three decades of field-defining research by John Alverdy, Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago. Alverdy, who is Covira’s...
Event License to Innovate: Separations Technologies from UChicago, Argonne, and Fermilab December 5, 2023 A showcase of select IP and research capabilities at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. View event booklet >> This technology showcase will highlight...
News This is Your License to Innovate: UChicago, Argonne, Fermilab Showcase New Tech “We have a recipe for the extraordinary – and the opportunities are endless,” said Juan de Pablo, Executive Vice President for Science, Innovation, National Laboratories, and Global Initiatives at the...
Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Cap Table Management with Ben Register November 12, 2025 Join the Polsky Center and Ben Register, MBA ’24, for an interactive session on Cap Table Management. One of the hardest conversations cofounders have is how to divide up their...
Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): How to Build a Cap Table with Ben Register January 20, 2026 Join the Polsky Center and Ben Register, founder of Bluegrass Pharmaceuticals, for an informative session on how to build a cap table. A cap table is one of the most...
Technology Senolytic Therapeutics To Eliminate Senescent Cells And Enhance Aging And Cancer Treatments Targeted approach to remove aging, disease-related, or chemotherapy/immunotherapy-induced senescent cells while sparing healthy cells The Unmet Need: Approaches to selectively eliminate senescent cells improving aging symptoms without damaging healthy…
Technology Novel Platform for Allosterically Modifying Enzyme Specificty Fine tuning enzyme specificity is desired for industrial catalysis. Enzymes lacking structural characterization or favorable recombinant expression are not amenable to traditional directed evolution or de novo design approaches. “Monobodies”…
Program Our Process and Advisory Committee Our Process The George Shultz Innovation Fund invests in promising startups from an ecosystem that includes the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermilab, and the Marine Biological Laboratory. The...
