News The Secret Sauce Behind Chicago Booth’s Private Equity Program When Yesenia Arteta was applying to business schools, looking to sharpen her skills as a private equity investor, Chicago Booth was high on her list because of its powerhouse finance...
Technology Nanovaccine That Activates The NLRP3 Inflammasome & Enhances Tumor Specific Activation Of Anti-Cancer Immunity A major attention of vaccine adjuvant development has been focused on development of robust antibody-mediated protection against pathogens. However, such adjuvants have failed to elicit a robust T-cell mediated protection…
News Inaugural ETA Alumni Symposium Reveals the Intricacies of Buying and Building a Business Brian O’Connor, an assistant professor at Booth and founder of NextGen Growth Partners, along with the Polsky Center hosted the first-ever Alumni ETA Symposium on April 12.
News Polsky Center Announces 2018 Summer Accelerator Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky Accelerator, a 10-week intensive summer program designed for both for-profit and not-for-profit startups to...
News LoveBug Probiotics Co-Founder Reunites with Fellow Booth Alum for First Venture Round Co-founded by University of Chicago Booth School of Business alum Ben Harris, MBA ’09, and Ashley Harris, LoveBug Probiotics – a probiotic supplements company geared toward mothers and children –...
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...
News Record $1.6 Million Awarded in the 25th Anniversary Finals of Chicago Booth’s New Venture Challenge; First-Place Winner Andes STR Lands More Than $660,000 The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University if Chicago has announced a record-breaking investment of $1.6 million in the winners of the 2021 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New...
News Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge Investment Pool Swells to $1.73 Million After Additional Funding Rolls In; First-Place Winner Andes STR Gets $681,000 The record investment pool in the 25th annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge (NVC) jumped to $1.73 million this week after investors put additional money into the finalist...
News Drug Delivery, Diagnostics, AI Applications Among 10 Projects in the Spring 2021 I-Corps Cohort Ten teams are participating in the spring 2021 cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program – a highly experiential, 7-week-long program to empower scientists, researchers, and students to test the commercial...
Technology Small Molecule Therapeutics For Inducing Trained Innate Immunity And Enhanced Anti-Tumor Responses Small molecule drugs developed to induce trained immunity in macrophage cells resulting in a heightened pro-inflammatory response without triggering a primary immune response The Unmet Need: Trained immunity induction that…
News Hands-on Financial Literacy Program Looks to Encourage Growth Beyond the Classroom In an era where high school-aged students are susceptible to facing some of life’s most difficult financial decisions, researchers at the University of Chicago and the Magnetar Capital Foundation have...
News Small Business Spotlight: Larry’s Barber College Stays a Cut Above With New Walmart Shop Angela Harvey had never cut hair before she enrolled in Larry’s Barber College. Her first time wielding clippers, after months of classroom instruction, “I was shaking like a leaf,” she...
