Program Polsky Energy Transition Leadership Program Explore leadership, innovation, and investment opportunities shaping the future of energy transition.
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 6 Episode 6: Power2Switch May 20, 2021 As a Black founder, Seyi Fabode, MBA ’10, has experienced the challenge of investors taking him seriously. Fabode, an immigrant from Nigeria, recalls an...
Page About Us about us Advancing innovative ideas and technologies from the University of Chicago ecosystem to the world. The Polsky Center’s roots trace back to the University of Chicago’s longstanding commitment to...
Technology Development Of A Novel Anti-fibrotic (siRNA Talin2) That Reverses Existing Fibrosis Fibrosis is involved in 45% of deaths in the United States, and no treatment exists to reverse the progression of the disease. Fibrosing diseases include pulmonary fibrosis, congestive heart failure,…
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…
News Bio-life Sciences “Ecosystem” Faces New Challenges Dr. Elliott Sigal (MD’81, PhD), President of R&D;, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Dr. Michael Prystowsky (MD’81, PhD), Chairman of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, participate in the inaugural event of...
News Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal Discusses Rebuilding the Country’s Economy at International House In a conversation moderated by Institute of Politics director Heidi Heitkamp, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal discussed the impact of war on the country’s economy, including his thoughts on...
News Novel Device Helps Eliminate Smoke in the Operating Room, a Workplace Hazard for Surgical Teams A new device designed by University of Chicago Professor of Surgery J. Michael Millis helps remove surgical smoke from operating rooms, a known workplace hazard which has recently become a...
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 Automated Microfluidic Platform For High-Throughput 3D Cell Culture, Dynamic Stimulation, And Single-Cell Analysis Automated microfluidic platform enabling high-throughput, precise 3D cell and organoid culture, drug screening, and single-cell analysis, allowing real-time monitoring and dynamic control of cellular environments for advanced research in cancer,…
Technology Anti-CD73(NT5E) Antibodies Specific To The Tumor Microenvironment CD73 is an ectonucleotidase tethered by a glycosylphosphatidyl anchor to the extracellular side of many cell types. Along with NTPDase-1 CD39, CD73 is an important regulator of a cells inflammatory…
