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$2.1 Million Awarded at the 2026 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge; Cancer Pathology AI Company Takes First

Slideflow Labs, a cancer pathology AI company, has won first place at the 30th Annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC), during which $2.1 million was awarded to...

Phase II Teams Selected for the New Venture Challenge

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business has officially announced the 30 teams moving on to the next phase of the...

Esya Labs Leads Paradigm Shift in Alzheimer’s Using Novel Biomarkers and AI for Revolutionary 360° Perspective of Disease

Esya Labs is developing tools for the early, precise, and cost-effective detection of neurodegenerative diseases to support drug discovery and personalized medicine efforts. In her lab at the University of Chicago, Chemistry...

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UChicago, Duality Teams to Pitch at 2021 Chicago Venture Summit

Several teams from the University of Chicago and Duality – the world’s first accelerator focused exclusively on quantum technologies – pitched at the 2021 Chicago Venture Summit. The venture capital...

Compass Demo Day to Showcase Deep Tech Startups

Polsky Science Ventures and the Compass deep tech accelerator team at the University of Chicago are hosting a “demo day” to highlight innovative research and technologies across the life sciences,...

Polsky Center I-Corps Teams Test Commercialization Potential of Research

The Polsky I-Corps program helps scientists, researchers, and students test the commercial potential of their research and ideas. Supported with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Great...

Neuroscientists Create New Algorithm for Better Decoding Brain Signals, with Applications Across Industries

Matthew Kaufman, assistant professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy and the Neuroscience Institute, has developed a new algorithm with myriad potential applications in robotics,...

Novel Metabolite-Based Diagnostic Technology for Accurate Cavernous Angioma Identification and Risk Assessment

Newly identified plasma metabolites linked to cavernous angioma, a neurovascular disease, using machine learning and multi-omics data to improve diagnostic precision and offer new insights for developing specific biomarkers The…

Flexible, AI-Enabled Wearables for Precision Medicine

This technology enables on-body AI data analysis of data from skin-like wearable electronics for achieving human-integrated/mimetic intelligent systems. The Unmet Need: Data processing for precision medicine Precision medicine, the future…

DeMaND (Decoding using Manifold Neural Dynamics)

This method enables high fidelity decoding of neural activity in an interpretable manner with a small training data set. The Unmet Need: Measuring neural activity in the brain with a…

nuBorn Medical to Pitch Their Preemie-Saving Technology at the 2018 Fall George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals

Chicago researchers are trying to deal with one of the preemies’ most vexing problems: Choking while bottle-feeding.

Doctors Design New Device to Improve Care for Burn Patients

Met with a clinical need to improve care for burn patients, two University of Chicago doctors designed a new device that is now in use at the hospital. A plastic...