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 Small Business Spotlight: With Taylor’s Tacos, West Coast Street Food Finds West Side Community After moving back home to Chicago from California, Taylor Mason missed Los Angeles’ ubiquitous street tacos. She’d get an occasional whiff thanks to a guy who sporadically set up a...
Technology Mesenchymal Stem Cell And Exosome-Based Therapeutics For Restoring Ovarian Function In Premature Ovarian Insufficiency Therapeutic strategy using human mesenchymal stem cells or their exosomes to restore ovarian function and fertility in premature ovarian insufficiency by promoting cell growth, reducing cell death, and enhancing blood…
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 5 Episode 5: Foxtrot May 13, 2021 Foxtrot cofounder and CEO Mike LaVitola, MBA ’14, has become expert at hearing “no.” He was not initially accepted into the New Venture Challenge,...
Technology A Primary 3D Culture Model for the High Throughput Ex-vivo Modeling of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis Current high throughput screens for ovarian cancer drug discovery use monolayer cell culture on plastic, and problematically cannot accurately model the cross communication between the cancer cells and the tumor…
News The Power of a Shared Ecosystem: 27 Midwest Startups Pitch at Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University came together to bring 27 deep tech startups in front of investors on the West Coast. The private, invite-only...
Technology A Transcriptomic Signature Platform For Predicting Prognosis And Guiding Therapy In Ovarian Cancer Patients A 10-gene signature based on glucocorticoid receptor activity to predict survival risk in high-grade serous ovarian cancer patients, helping identify those who may benefit from specific therapies and improving personalized…
Technology A Biomarker Platform for Predicting Carboplatin Sensitivity and Enabling Targeted Ovarian Cancer Immunotherapy The field of oncological diagnostics and therapeutics has long sought methods to refine treatment approaches for aggressive cancers. In conditions such as advanced high-grade ovarian cancer, there is a critical…
News Bioelectronics Get Upgrade with Novel Approach to Create More Stable, Electrically Efficient Devices Researchers at the University of Chicago have patented a new approach for developing carbon-based bioelectronic devices, which have a variety of applications in drug delivery, substance detection, and organ modulation....
News Patent of the Week: A 3D Culture System for Ovarian Cancer Research Researchers – including Ernst Lengyel, Arthur L. and Lee G. Herbst Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago – have developed a 3D culture system that enables...
