News Fall 2024 Collaboratorium Brings Together Science and Business Expertise Connecting researchers with business expertise, the Fall 2024 Collaboratorium will feature teams participating in the Polsky I-Corps program in addition to startups from the Duality and Resurgence accelerators. >> Register for the Collaboratorium: Wednesday,...
News The Missing Piece: Epinoma Advances Novel Disease Detection Tech An early-stage biotechnology company, Epinoma, has licensed a DNA methylation analysis technology from the University of Chicago as part of its work developing novel tools for early cancer detection and...
News Commercialization Fellowship Welcome Five New PhD Students to Further Develop Research The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation welcomes five new University of Chicago PhD students to its Commercialization Fellowship program, which offers students the opportunity to create new ventures around promising...
News Fall 2025 Collaboratorium Connects Researchers and Business Expertise Connecting researchers and scientists with business expertise, the Fall 2025 Collaboratorium will feature teams participating in the Polsky I-Corps program in addition to startups from other areas of the...
News Polsky Science and Technology Associates Helping Drive University Innovation Forward The new cohort of the Polsky Science and Technology Associates includes three University of Chicago graduate students who are working with the Polsky Center’s technology and business development teams to...
News ETA’s Global Momentum Takes Center Stage at Record-Breaking 12th Annual Booth–Kellogg Conference This week the Polsky Center, the ETA Group at Chicago Booth, and the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative hosted the 12th Annual Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, welcoming more than 1,100...
News How Local Stores Can Thrive this Holiday Season The following article was written by Abigail Ingram, executive director of the Polsky Exchange, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on November 17, 2025. Read the original article. When...
Technology Small Molecule Inhibitor Boosting The Efficacy Of Therapeutic Ionizing Radiation Radiotherapy and immunotherapy are used to treat many cancer types, yet only 50% and 20% of patients respond, respectively. Resistance to therapy presents a large problem. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification is…
Technology Next-Generation Immunotherapy Platform With Engineered Collagen-Binding Cytokine Combinations Combination engineered IL-7 and IL-12 proteins that target tumors by binding to collagen, boosting immune attack on cancer while reducing side effects and improving long-term protection, even in cancers resistant…
Technology Small Molecule Therapeutics For Inhibiting Carotid Body Hypersensitivity To Treat Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders New compounds that inhibit an enzyme to reduce hydrogen sulfide in the carotid body, helping to normalize breathing and prevent sleep apnea by targeting the underlying cause of abnormal breathing…
Technology A Versatile and High-throughput Assay for the Directed Evolution of Reverse Transcriptases to Profile Epigenetic Modifications With NGS Engineered reverse transcriptases (RTs) to profile epigenetic modifications have numerous advantages over traditional antibody enrichment methods including: single base pair resolution, lower sample quantities needed, and lower noise and background…
Technology A Method for Fast Adapting Similarity Searches Based on Variance Aware Quantization With the explosive growth of high-dimensional data, approximate methods emerge as promising solutions for searching for similar data pairs. Quantization methods have gained prominence due to their low storage costs…
