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 Innovation through Academic-Industry Partnerships in Clinical Trials The University of Chicago Medicine performs more clinical trials than any other hospital in Illinois – translating ground-breaking innovations into life-changing therapeutics for patients in need. Join UChicago Medicine on...
News ‘You Need a Village’: Clinical Trial Leaders Discuss Collaborations, COVID, and Widening the Lens Experts came together on Clinical Trials Day to discuss why early and frequent discussions among all stakeholders are necessary, how COVID forced the industry to think “more clearly and sharply...
News 3 Novel Disease-Fighting Technologies You Should Know About Ahead of BIO 2022 Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed methods to increase the clinical efficacy of immunotherapies, provide long-lasting immune tolerance for autoimmune or transplantation therapy, and treat breast and ovarian...
News Small Business Spotlight: Sarah Ware, a Change Agent in Chicago Real Estate Real estate has historically been a white man’s game, and continues to be so at leadership levels. During its 139-year history, the Chicago Association of REALTORS® (CAR) has had only...
News Polsky Center to Support New Biopharma Hub Funded by $10.4 Million Investment The Chicago Biomedical Consortium Hub for Innovative Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Sciences (CBC-HITES) will help academic inventors translate their research into commercial products. CBC-HITES joins 13 hubs that are...
News How to Scale the Glass Cliff The following article was written by Kim Vender Moffat, investor-in residence at the Polsky Center, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on July 15, 2024. Read the original article....
Event Polsky Exchange Member Breakfast April 16, 2025 Calling all Polsky Exchange Members. Start your day right with coffee and treats at the Polsky Exchange. You don’t want to miss it! This month’s Exchange member breakfast aims to...
News ‘You Start with a Problem and Ambition’: One PhD Student’s Journey to Quantum Startup Founder Like most entrepreneurs, for Shankar Menon, the journey to launching his first company started with a problem and ambition. A quantum science and engineering graduate student at the University of...
