News Build and Launch Accelerators Accept 16 Teams to the 2025 Summer Program The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation today announced the 16 startups selected to participate in the 2025 Build and Launch summer accelerators, 10-week summer programs open to all University...
News AI-Driven Psychiatry Platform Takes First Place at 18th Annual Global New Venture Challenge The 18th Annual Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC) has awarded first place to mental health diagnostic tool Kivira. Kivira was awarded the top prize and $50,000 for its AI-powered platform...
News Zenblen’s Smooth Rise from Office Blender to Robotic Smoothie Bar As a college athlete at the University of Chicago, Tom Zhang always made health and wellness a priority. A track and field runner who later competed in triathlons, he became...
News 8 Students Receive Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowships to Work on Their Ventures Full Time The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation announced the eight recipients of the 2025 Polsky Founders’ Fund Fellowship (PF3), a program that provides funding to graduating UChicago students who are committed...
Event Application Deadline: Entrepreneurs Unplugged, A Monthly Meetup for Founders October 15, 2025 During the 2025-26 year, early stage Booth founders will have the opportunity to convene monthly as a group with Entrepreneur in-Residence Mia Saini Duchnowski. These monthly meetups will help founders...
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...
Event Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Workshop: Power in Business Partnerships: Collaborate, Divide & Conquer March 3, 2026 We welcome Sam Duprey, MBA ’16, and Max Gaby, MBA ’16, principals at Caliber Companies, to lead a session titled “Power in Business Partnerships: Collaborate, Divide & Conquer.” They will...
News 18 Teams Selected for Classroom Portion of the 19th Annual Global New Venture Challenge From Chicago, Hong Kong, and London, 18 teams are advancing to the classroom portion of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s 2026 Global New Venture Challenge (GNVC). Now...
Technology Diagnostic Assays And Engineered Compositions For Detecting Angiotensin II Autoantibodies And Preventing Coronavirus Autoimmunity Detection and monitoring of autoantibodies against Angiotensin II in COVID-19 patients, guiding diagnosis, treatment, and vaccine design to reduce blood pressure complications and prevent harmful autoimmune responses linked to the…
Technology Algorithm And System For Accurate Breast Parenchymal Enhancement Calculation By Digital Lesion Removal A method uses AI and clustering to remove lesions from breast MRI images, reconstructing clearer projection images for more accurate assessment of tissue enhancement and improved breast cancer risk evaluation.…
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 A Primary 3D Culture Model for the High Throughput Ex-vivo Modeling of Ovarian Cancer Metastasis Current high throughput screens for ovarian cancer drug discovery use monolayer cell culture on plastic, and problematically cannot accurately model the cross communication between the cancer cells and the tumor…
