News Improving Crops; Saving Energy On August 20, Chromatin—a company that grew out of research at the University of Chicago—announced that it had entered into a technological alliance and license agreement with Bayer CropScience. Under the agreement, Bayer...
News BeeNana Wins First Place at the 2017 College New Venture Challenge The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 College New Venture Challenge. The Polsky Center’s...
News Home Chef, Remote Year Founders Among Winners at EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Two notable Chicago startup founders were just given a big nod for their entrepreneurial endeavors. Patrick Vihtelic, founder and CEO of Home Chef, and Greg Caplan, founder and CEO of Remote Year,...
News Polsky Center Announces Autumn 2018 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program, a 7-week highly-experiential program designed to empower UChicago scientists, researchers, and...
News 2018 Fall Cohort Finalists Selected for the UChicago Innovation Fund The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has announced the five companies moving on to the fall finals of the 2018 University of Chicago Innovation Fund....
News George Shultz Innovation Fund Invests $600,000 in Biotech Companies The Fall Finals took place on Thursday, December 6.
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 Innovation Fund Advances Test for Cancer Therapy The primary treatment for breast cancer is either tumor excision followed by radiation or mastectomy with or without radiation therapy. Either course is often followed with chemotherapy. But radiation therapy...
News Innovation Fund Targets Leukemia “This award will permit us to build upon our preliminary data to facilitate the development of a promising new strategy to treat acute leukemia.” So says Michael J. Thirman, MD,...
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 Davidson Embodies Entrepreneurial Spirit Some Chicago-based researchers with a commercial success or two under their belt head for the East or West Coasts, which are known for nurturing translational research. Michael Davidson, MD, however,...
News Aiming Artificial Intelligence and Computer Power at Disease Approximately 70% of screening mammograms in the U.S. are subjected to a second read by a computer-aided detection system (CADe), a technology for assisting in the detection of cancerous lesions...
