News 21 Teams Tackling Innovations in Quantum, Healthcare, AI, and More Take First Steps Toward Commercialization Twenty-one teams from across the University of Chicago and local institutions participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this year – identifying and addressing real-world problems in seven weeks, work...
Event Align Your Team, Accelerate Your Growth: A Workshop for Entrepreneurs March 31, 2026 Entrepreneurs and small business teams don’t have time—or money—to waste. These four questions show up again and again in small businesses: ● “How do we make progress when the work...
Technology CAR T-Cells That Recognize Cancer-specific Glycopeptides Across Multiple Cancer Types The development of cancer immunotherapies is limited by a lack of targetable tumor antigens. Most currently targeted antigens have basal expression in healthy tissue, which results in potentially life threatening…
Technology Defined Live Biotherapeutic Compositions That Restore Depleted Gut Metabolites To Improve Outcomes In Liver Disease Patients Patients with advanced liver disease, transplant recipients, and other critically ill populations frequently experience profound microbiome dysbiosis due to antibiotics and hospitalization. This dysbiosis is characterized by loss of microbial…
Technology Conformation-Specific Genetically Encodable Intrabodies for Spatially Modulating Protein Kinase Signaling Genetically encoded synthetic antibody fragments, expressed intracellularly, to specifically bind the mTOR FKBP12-Rapamycin binding domain inhibiting mTORC1 and mTORC2 activity. Fused with localization signals, these tools enable precise, compartment-specific modulation…
Technology Oral Systemically-Bioavailable Butyrate For Treating Inflammatory Diseases Method to attach butyrate to amino acids, allowing it to bypass gut metabolism and enter the bloodstream, increasing its bioavailability and enabling effective treatment of inflammatory, immune, and neurological conditions…
Program Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Experience the venture capital process firsthand through the world’s largest venture capital investment competition.
Page Polsky Council The Polsky Council comprises many of the country’s leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and private equity investors, who provide ongoing guidance and support to the Polsky Center. Eric Belcher, MBA ’95...
News Polsky Center Announces 2018 Summer Accelerator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to...
News Polsky Accelerator Program Concludes with Demo Day For the past 10 weeks, 14 companies have participated in the 2018 Polsky Accelerator program. The annual program is designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to develop their ventures....
News Redesigning Semiconductors “Sometimes you have to rethink the chemistry, rethink the materials, rethink the manufacturing process,” says Dmitri Talapin, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. This approach led Talapin—who specializes...
News Getting a Grip “Fundamental research is what keeps me up late at night,” says Heinrich Jaeger, PhD, the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. One...
