News Where Are They Now? How Kindness Built KindWorks Update 2/6/2025: KindWorks is featured in Season 7 of Meet The Drapers, a global pitch competition hosted by venture capitalist Tim Draper. Their pitch airs on March 14, and audience...
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...
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...
Technology Topical Vitamin B1-Based Immunomodulation For Enhancing Skin Wound Healing And Anti-Tumor Responses Skincare Vitamin B1 functions as a novel immunomodulator that reprograms skin dendritic cell efferocytosis and antigen presenting cell functions, leading to enhanced skin immunity for would healing and anti-tumor purpose…
News Genetically Engineered Skin to Treat Disease, Promote Scarless Wound Healing, and More The largest organ in the human body, skin is a robust system with great potential to support not only basic research, but to serve as a platform for stem cell...
News Kin Insurance To Go Public, Expand Nationally, With Aim to Save Homeowners Time and Money Kin Insurance this week announced plans to go public and expand across the U.S., supercharging its efforts to make homeowners insurance more convenient and affordable by cutting out the agent....
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...
Technology Novel RNA Replicon Vector For Efficient Gene Delivery To The Skin A Sindbis virus-based self-amplifying RNA vector has been engineered for long-lasting, safe gene expression in skin cells, aiming to treat genetic skin disorders like recessive X-linked ichthyosis by restoring missing…
News Kin Insurance: How Passion and a Focus on Doing Good Gave Rise to Chicago’s Latest Unicorn Sean Harper, AB ’03, MBA ’09, knew his passion from an early age. “Going back to high school, I was the kid who was reading Milton Friedman while programming his...
Technology Next-gen Immunoregulatory Bioelectronic Patch For Skin Inflammation An electronic system that incorporates living materials as an interfacial layer, specially tailored for managing skin inflammation diseases. The Unmet Need: Chronic skin diseases lack safe, drug-free, continuous monitoring and…
News CRISPR-Modified Skin Grafts to Treat Addiction? ‘The Opportunities Are Endless,’ Says CEO AddGraft Therapeutics has developed a novel platform that aims to effectively treat substance use disorders with genetically engineered skin grafts – a first-of-its-kind treatment with myriad applications. Developed by University of...
News Kin Insurance Closes $35 Million Series B Including Second Investment from UChicago Founded in 2016 by a University of Chicago alum, Kin Insurance today announced a $35 million Series B round with participation from the University of Chicago via its Startup Investment...
