News UChicago Professors and Grad Students Among 2021’s Highly Cited Researchers More than 30 professors and graduate students at the University of Chicago were among Clarivate’s annual list of Highly Cited Researchers. The list, which included University of Chicago President, Paul...
News Organ Transport Startup Wins First Place in UChicago’s College New Venture Challenge as Judges Dole out $150K in Investment to Undergrad-Led Teams at 10th Anniversary Finals The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the winners of the 10th Annual College New Venture Challenge (CNVC), which awarded $150,000 in investment to a diverse...
News 10 Teams Participate in Polsky’s Spring 2022 I-Corps Program to Refine Market Fit for Novel Tech Ten teams from across the University of Chicago were selected to participate in the spring 2022 I-Corps program with the goal of determining the commercial potential of their technologies. Supported...
News Four Startups Advance to Spring 2023 George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals Four startups innovating in the life sciences, energy, healthcare IT, and medical device spaces will each vie for up to $250,000 in co-investment as finalists in the Spring 2023 cohort...
News Chicago Biomedical Consortium Secures $13.5 Million to Scale Work, Support for Life Sciences Industry The Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) has received an additional $13.5 million in funding from the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust to expand its mission. Launched in 2001 by...
News Polsky Center Welcomes Newest Cohort of the Small Business Financial Fundamentals Program The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is welcoming a new cohort of entrepreneurs to the Polsky Exchange Small Business Financial Fundamentals program. The 10-week program is designed to support...
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...
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 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 Improved Ex Vivo Models Of Pancreatic Cancer Using Tumor-Relevant Nutrient Conditions Tumor Interstitial Fluid Medium (TIFM) is a pancreatic tumor-mimetic cell culture formulation, paired with matched murine PDAC cell lines adapted in either TIFM or RPMI-1640, that is designed to model…
Program Past VCIC Participants 2026 Monarch Fund won the regional Venture Capital Investment Competition. Team members included Angela Huang, Kim Berg, Nick Thomas, Patrick Mispireta, Leah Sidell, and Joe Wang. 2025 First Pick Ventures…
