News Polsky Center’s Life Science Launchpad Partners with Faculty to Launch Startups In 2014, the Bunning Food Allergy Professor Cathryn Nagler and her team discovered a potential treatment for food allergies.
News UChicago Microbiome Startup Making Strides in Life Sciences Accelerator IndieBio BiomeSense is spending the next couple of months in San Francisco as part of IndieBio’s current accelerator class.
News Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Devshi Mehrotra Polsky member Devshi Mehrotra joined the Polsky Exchange as a first-year undergraduate at UChicago. Now, Mehrotra’s interests in entrepreneurship and technology have only deepened.
News Polsky Member of the Month: Mara Gleason Polsky member Mara Gleason joined the Exchange in March of 2018, and has played a very active role ever since.
News Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Yvette Kaiser Smith UChicago alum and Polsky member, Yvette Kaiser Smith, MFA ’94, joined the Exchange in May of 2016. Kaiser Smith is an artist, who makes “wall-based geometric abstractions.”
News Disrupting Brazil’s Ice Cream Industry Lowko, previously known as MUU, was a finalist at the 2018 New Venture Challenge and has since launched in Brazil.
News Startup Spotlight: Mouse Book Club The Polsky Center had the chance to speak with founder David Dewane on his experience bringing Mouse Book Club to life through the Incubator.
News Startup Spotlight: Debate It Forward The Polsky Center spoke with founder Josh Aaronson about his time in the Summer Accelerator and College New Venture Challenge programs.
News The University of Chicago and the Grainger College Of Engineering Partner to Expand Undergraduate Track of UChicago’s Accelerator Program The College New Venture Challenge is expanding to partner with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
News Finalists Announced for the University of Chicago’s College New Venture Challenge Finals The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has officially announced the seven teams moving on to finals of the 2020 College New Venture Challenge (CNVC). The CNVC is...
News Marketing Strategies in Times of Uncertainty University of Chicago Booth School of Business Director of Brand Strategy Nicole Yelsey, MBA ’12, recently shared strategies, tactics, and best practices for businesses during this unprecedented time. “Your reaction...
News Chicago Tech Leaders Weigh in on How to Navigate COVID-19 The Executives’ Club of Chicago recently held a conversation discussing what differentiates Chicago as a place to found and grow a company – and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic...