Technology A Biodegradable Packaging Material Made From Hybrid Hydrogel of Starch, Granular, Chitosan Fiber, and Polyacrylamide Starch and chitosan are abundant, natural, complex polysaccharides. In plants, starch is the carbohydrate energy reserve. Chitosan is the de-acetylated form of chitin, a structural polysaccharide found in the exoskeleton…
Program Official Rules and Guidelines PURPOSE OF THE CNVC To encourage the founding and growth of high-potential new ventures founded by UChicago College students. PHASES OF THE CNVC Most other universities host a single day...
News Water No Match for New Self-Healing Sticky Gel Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf and surging tidal basins. A patent...
Program Official Rules and Guidelines ELIGIBILITY EQUITY AGREEMENTS As a condition to receive the prize money, each winning team must agree to provide the Polsky Center with equity in the company (that was the subject...
News 20 Teams Selected for Classroom Portion of the 18th Annual Global New Venture Challenge From Chicago, Hong Kong, and London, 20 teams are advancing to the classroom portion of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2025 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC). The GNVC is the...
News Global New Venture Challenge Announces 7 Finalists Competing for Investments Seven teams have been selected for the 18th annual Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) finals, taking place on Friday, June 6th. The GNVC is a track of the New Venture...
Technology Programmable And Hyperstable Engineered Synthetic Transcriptional Repressors A class of functionally enhanced synthetic transcriptional factor antagonists to modulate the MYC/MAX transcriptional network by direct competition for DNA binding. The Unmet Need: Transcription factors remain largely untapped as…
Program Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) Experience the venture capital process firsthand through the world’s largest venture capital investment competition.
News Multifunctional Nanomedicine Developed Using Novel UChicago Tech Gets FDA Nod to Initiate Clinical Trials Coordination Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (CPI) recently announced that the FDA has approved the company’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a first-in-human Phase 1 clinical study of its novel cancer...
News 11th Annual College New Venture Challenge Announces Competing Undergraduate Teams The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in partnership with University of Illinois’ Grainger College of Engineering is pleased to announce the 16 teams selected for the 11th annual College...
Program Resources A suite of programs and resources designed to provide graduating students and alumni access to the education, capital, and mentorship necessary to acquire and grow small businesses.
News Innovating for Resilience: Polsky Center Launches ‘Resurgence’ Cleantech Accelerator The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the launch of Resurgence, a new cleantech accelerator powered by Deep Tech Ventures. Polsky Deep...
