Page Third Coast Foundry Third Coast Foundry Advancing Midwest Innovation Third Coast Foundry is a new physical space in San Francisco for partner university-founded startups and teams traveling to the Bay Area. Designed to...
News How Researchers are Returning Sensation to Mastectomy Patients The Bionic Breast Project is an interdisciplinary research program applying bionic technologies to restore post-mastectomy breast function. Leading the project is Stacy Lindau, MD, MA ’02, a Professor of Obstetrics...
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 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.…
News Novel Breast Cancer Therapy Shows Promise Moving a basic scientific finding from a lab to the clinical setting is the Holy Grail for medical researchers the world over. Suzanne Conzen, MD, professor of hematology/oncology at the...
News Third Coast Foundry Celebrates Grand Opening, Showcases 40 Deep Tech Startups at Demo Day The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, along with the seven other university partners that make up Third Coast Foundry, marked the official launch of the new San Francisco-based innovation...
Technology A Prognostic Gene Signature for Predicting Chemotherapy Sensitivity and Patient Survival in ER-negative Breast Cancer ER-negative (ER-) breast cancers make up 20% of all breast cancer diagnosis. However, no gene signature exists for predicting drug sensitivity and prognosis. Therefore, the clinical standard remains treating patients…
News UChicago Grad Student Named ‘Changemaker,’ Awarded Grant to Support Bionic Breast Project A graduate student in Sliman Bensmaia’s lab at the University of Chicago, Katie Long, MD/PhD ’24, has received $20,000 from Aerie to support her research into breast sensation. The intimate...
News Patent of the Week: Identifying High-Risk Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive type of breast cancer and has the least favorable prognosis, as there are fewer targeted medicines available. Accounting for about 10-20%...
Technology IRDS: Predictive 7-gene Signature for Breast Cancer Therapy After surgical removal of breast cancer tumors, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy have an absolute survival benefit of just 5-10%. Currently approved breast cancer diagnostics do not predict patient responses…
News Eight Finalists Announced for the 2023 Alumni New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2023 Alumni New Venture Challenge (ANVC), a global program dedicated to supporting all University of...
News Patent of the Week: A Low Dose, Multi-Drug Cocktail for Breast Cancer Treatment More than 150,000 breast cancer survivors were living with metastatic disease, three-fourths of whom were originally diagnosed with stage I-III, as of January 1, 2019, according to the American Cancer...
