News UChicago, Northwestern University and JPMorgan Chase Join Forces To Grow Business And Jobs Three-year partnership will fund new programs to support minority-owned business on south and west sides The University of Chicago and Northwestern University are beginning a three-year partnership to support the...
News How NVC Finalist BrewBike Launched with the Help of Two Top Chicago Universities Conventional wisdom would lead most people to conclude there’s a coffeehouse on every corner, but Randy Paris, MBA ’18 isn’t a conventional thinker.
News Universities Pool Resources, Spotlight Research “The heart of a thriving company-formation effort begins with university research,” said James Tyree, president of Abbott Biotech Ventures and keynote speaker at the Chicago Innovation Spotlight on May 18,...
News Meet Polsky’s New Director of Science Ventures: How Out-of-the-Box Thinking Kickstarted Her Entrepreneurial Journey Ozge Guney-Altay, PhD, has joined the Polsky Center as the new Director of Polsky Science Ventures – a role which she says brings together her two passions: academia and innovation....
News Riptide 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 Riptide Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical startup led by University of Chicago and Northwestern University...
News The Power of a Shared Ecosystem: 27 Midwest Startups Pitch at Deep Tech Demo Day in San Francisco The University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Northwestern University came together to bring 27 deep tech startups in front of investors on the West Coast. The private, invite-only...
News 8 Midwestern Universities Launch Third Coast Foundry to Connect Startups with Bay Area Venture Capital The University of Chicago, in partnership with seven other leading Midwestern universities, today announced the launch of Third Coast Foundry, a new San Francisco–based hub designed to strengthen the collective...
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...
News Chicago Innovation Mentors Celebrates First Year A superhighway runs into Chicago’s leading universities, carrying innovative scientists, talented students and significant research funds, says John Flavin, the new executive director of Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM). “We need...
News Mentoring Program to Bridge Gap Between Ideas and Innovation The inaugural event of the new Chicago Innovators Mentors program matched experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and domain experts with innovating faculty from multiple institutions. Left to right: Mentor Dan Schmitt, Jim...
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 AI, Life Sciences, Quantum Tech to Get Boost as Part of the Compass Accelerator’s Latest Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce that six teams have been selected for the latest cohort of Compass, a deep tech accelerator program for University...
