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....
Event Duality Corporate Collision April 1, 2026 Corporate Collision provides an opportunity for corporate partners to discover, connect, and collaborate with some of the nation’s top quantum startups. Select corporations will have the opportunity to present a...
News 8 Midwestern Universities Launch Third Coast Foundry to Connect Startups with Bay Area Venture Capital The University of Chicago, in partnership with seven other leading Midwestern universities, today announced the launch of Third Coast Foundry, a new San Francisco–based hub designed to strengthen the collective...
News Corporate Collision Connects Quantum Startups and Corporate Partners Last week the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation hosted Corporate Collision, a capstone Duality event designed to connect corporate partners with quantum startups to explore opportunities for collaboration, innovation,...
Technology A Programmable Translational Activator Platform For Restoring Endogenous Protein Expression In Haploinsufficiency Disorders The CIRTS-4GT3 platform is a compact, programmable system that uses guide RNAs and human protein domains to boost production of specific proteins in cells, offering a safe and targeted therapy…
Technology siRNA/shRNA Therapy for the Sensitization of Treatment-resistant Solid Tumors to Chemo and Radiation Therapy Adjuvant radiation therapy post-surgery remains largely ineffective, with just 5% of patients showing a survival benefit. Small molecule JAK inhibitors have shown efficacy in the clinic at treating these patients,…
Technology Algorithm And System For Accurate Breast Parenchymal Enhancement Calculation By Digital Lesion Removal A method uses AI and clustering to remove lesions from breast MRI images, reconstructing clearer projection images for more accurate assessment of tissue enhancement and improved breast cancer risk evaluation.…
Technology Machine Learning for Early Detection of Hypoxic‑Ischemic Brain Injury After Cardiac Arrest Despite the many advances in the field of resuscitation post cardiac arrest, hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HIBI) leaves many survivors with severe neurological disability. Patients who remain comatose at 24–72 h…
Technology Programmable And Hyperstable Engineered Synthetic Transcriptional Repressors A class of functionally enhanced synthetic transcriptional factor antagonists to modulate the MYC/MAX transcriptional network by direct competition for DNA binding. The Unmet Need: Transcription factors remain largely untapped as…
Technology Granulobot: a modular and morphable robotic platform The development of autonomous and efficient agents that can adapt to a variety of environments and perform different functions by reconfiguring their body is one of the frontiers in the…
Technology Spectral CT Material Decomposition from Standard Single-Energy X-Ray Scans Summary This technology enables multi-material image reconstruction from conventional single-spectrum X-ray tomography data, including standard CT and tomosynthesis, without requiring dual-energy CT or photon-counting CT hardware. The approach can generate…
