Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): HR and Culture with Michelle Aronson November 6, 2024 Join the Polsky Center and Michelle Aronson, Owner of Culture and Strategy Lab, for an engaging workshop on building workplace culture. In this interactive session, Michelle will discuss the critical...
News 6 Chicago Booth Students Honored with 2024 Student Entrepreneurship Awards Chicago Booth School of Business recently recognized six outstanding MBA students who demonstrated leadership in entrepreneurship, venture capital, or private equity during their time at school. The annual Student Entrepreneurship...
Event Investing Essentials: Fireside Chat with a First-Year Venture Capitalist October 31, 2024 Join Polsky Entrepreneur in Residence Doug Monieson, MBA ’89 and Michelle Cao, MBA ’24 in a fireside chat about being a first-year venture capitalist. Michelle is a Senior Associate on...
News NIH Funds Preclinical Testing of Proposed Anti-COVID Therapy Patented By UChicago Researcher University of Chicago researcher Raphael Lee, MD, ScD, the Paul and Allene Russell Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Surgery and Medicine, has patented the methods and use of...
News Polsky Center Announces Winter 2019 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program.
News Polsky Center Fall 2021 I-Corps Teams Tackle Unmet Medical Needs, Data Transparency, and Other Challenges The Polsky Center’s fall 2021 I-Corps cohort is developing diagnostics, novel therapeutics, innovative devices, new materials, and other technologies across various industries. The Polsky I-Corps program is a 7-week highly-experiential...
News Alnair Therapeutics Awarded $175,000 From George Shultz Innovation Fund The George Shultz Innovation Fund (GSIF), managed by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, recently selected oncology startup Alnair Therapeutics as a Fall 2022 cohort award winner. The company,...
News Alnair Therapeutics Follows Polsky Path to String of Impressive Wins, $1M+ Funding Round Momentum continues to build for Alnair Therapeutics, an oncology startup focused on developing a platform to better deliver drugs to hard-to-treat cancers. In June – the same month that the...
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
Technology Oral Systemically-Bioavailable Butyrate For Treating Inflammatory Diseases Method to attach butyrate to amino acids, allowing it to bypass gut metabolism and enter the bloodstream, increasing its bioavailability and enabling effective treatment of inflammatory, immune, and neurological conditions…
Technology Type I Interferons For Enhancing Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Efficacy Method to enhance CAR T-cell efficacy by incorporating low-dose exogenous IFN-α2 into CD19-directed, CD28-costimulated CAR T cells post-transduction during manufacturing boosting cytolytic molecule expression, cytokine secretion, and cytotoxicity while minimizing…
News Meet Polsky Member of the Month: Devshi Mehrotra Polsky member Devshi Mehrotra joined the Polsky Exchange as a first-year undergraduate at UChicago. Now, Mehrotra’s interests in entrepreneurship and technology have only deepened.
