Page Where Are They Now? Episode 3 Episode 3: BenchPrep April 29, 2021 Ashish Rangnekar, MBA ’11, grew up in a sleepy town in India where success looked like a white-collar job, not entrepreneurship. But early on...
News Polsky Center Expansion at University of Chicago Hits High Gear Entrepreneurship is about to stand on its own at the University of Chicago for the first time. Prompted by new funds and a growing hunger for innovation resources throughout campus, the university is...
News Buoyed by Insiders, Flagship’s Evelo Hits Midpoint of IPO Range Evelo Biosciences, a biotech company based on technology licensed through the Polsky Center from UChicago Medicine’s Thomas Gajewski, debuted on Nasdaq. Read the full article >>
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 Small Business Spotlight: Brown Sugar Bakery Hits the Sweet Spot Between Homey and Gourmet “Some people talk about passion,” said Stephanie Hart, owner of Brown Sugar Bakery on East 75th Street in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood, “I’m about discipline.” That nose-to-the-grindstone practicality has helped Hart...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 9 Episode 9: Grubhub June 10, 2021 Matt Maloney admits he had a bit of an ego when he entered the New Venture Challenge. He had already launched Grubhub, had a...
Technology Library E: Highly Optimized Recombinant Antibody Phage-Display Library Using recombinant antibody libraries for drug development has numerous advantages over animal immunization including: faster production times, favorable expression, and not being limited by antigen immunogenicity. However, this approach is…
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 4 Episode 4: Simple Mills May 6, 2021 Katlin Smith, founder and CEO of Simple Mills, wowed her first buyer with a muffin recipe using almond flour. Now the Chicago-based natural...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 10 Episode 10: Andes STR June 17, 2021 Growing up in Chile in a family of entrepreneurs, Sebastian Rivas since childhood has been on the lookout for problems that need solving....
News Americas Online Alternative Finance Market Grows to $35 Billion in 2016 CHICAGO (May 25, 2017) – The alternative finance market continued to grow across the United States (US), Canada and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2016 to a total...
