News New Fellowship Connects UChicago Students with Cleantech Startups The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced the inaugural cohort of the Resurgence Fellowship – a new program connecting students with startups in its cleantech...
News ‘It’s Remarkable’: Deep Tech Ventures Summit Showcases Innovation in the Midwest Nearly 350 attendees, 23 speakers, and 22 startups came together to explore various topics across the quantum, data science and AI, cleantech, and life sciences space at the Deep Tech...
News 11th Annual Booth-Kellogg ETA Conference Hosts Record Number of Attendees Earlier this month, the Polsky Center, ETA Group at Chicago Booth, and Northwestern Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative hosted the annual Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference. The eleventh iteration of the...
Program International Student Information International students (first-year or second-year in either F-1 or J-1 visa status) are eligible to participate in the PE/VC Lab but must have Curricular Practical Training (CPT) or Academic Training...
Event Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Workshop: Beyond the Norm – Operating and Acquiring Unconventional Businesses April 10, 2026 This workshop will explore unconventional business models and operations in the world of ETA. We will be joined by ETA operators George Baumann, MBA ’17, Mike Ojile, and Ryan Sullivan....
Technology IRDS: Predictive 7-gene Signature for Breast Cancer Therapy After surgical removal of breast cancer tumors, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy have an absolute survival benefit of just 5-10%. Currently approved breast cancer diagnostics do not predict patient responses…
Technology A Highly-Efficient Platform To Form Vesicular Polymer Nanoparticles For RNA And Protein Payload Delivery Polymersomes are a type of nanoscale vesicle made from block copolymers and can encapsulate a variety of therapeutic agents including proteins and nucleic acids. These nanovesicles are assembled at room…
Technology New Reversible Uridine Modification Chemistry For Labeling and Functionalizing Native Nucleic Acids A chemical process that enables reversible, covalent RNA modification-highly selective for uridine enabling diverse functional group attachment, facilitating nucleic acid labeling The Unmet Need: Reversible labeling of native RNA in…
Technology Q11: a Highly Homogeneous Multivalent and Single-component Vaccine Adjuvating Platform There is a limited choice in clinically approved adjuvants for vaccine development. Current solutions are themselves immunogenic, causing injection site swelling and reactions. The inventors developed a 15 amino acid…
Technology Lamellar Iron Sulfides with Embedded Cations for Electrical Energy Storage Electrodes in supercapacitor devices (computers, electric/fossil fuel burning vehicles, and renewable energy storage) and electrodes in lithium (Li) and sodium (Na) batteries (portable electronic devices, grid energy storage applications, and…
Technology Functionalized Metal Carbides For Energy Storage The invention is a novel synthetic approach for surface modification of two-dimensional (2D) metal carbides (MXenes) using molten inorganic salts. Surface modification of MXenes have been hypothesized to affect material…
Technology Nanoparticles Containing Multiple Cleavable Prodrugs For Cancer Therapy Specially designed nanoparticles to deliver multiple cancer drugs at once, improving drug stability, targeting tumors more effectively, and reducing side effects by controlling and triggering drug release directly at the…
