Page Where Are They Now? Episode 2 Episode 2: ExplORer Surgical April 22, 2021 Jennifer Fried, MBA ’15, started her MBA at Chicago Booth with dreams of a career in venture capital. By the time she graduated,...
News Building a Platform to Fight Disease Chances are you’ve never heard of lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare lung disease that mostly affects women in their thirties and forties. With this disease, which is also called LAM, patients get...
News Innovation Fund Invests $500,000 in Health and Energy Companies The University of Chicago Innovation Fund announced plans to invest up to $500,000 into two companies—Cephalgia Therapeutics and RWEDI water—that are working to combat migraines and increase water efficiency, respectively....
News Spring Cohort Finalists Selected for the UChicago Innovation Fund The University of Chicago Innovation Fund has announced the five companies moving on to the spring finals. Each of the finalists will present their ventures to the Innovation Fund advisory committee and...
News Innovation Fund Targets Leukemia “This award will permit us to build upon our preliminary data to facilitate the development of a promising new strategy to treat acute leukemia.” So says Michael J. Thirman, MD,...
Technology Novel Platform for Allosterically Modifying Enzyme Specificty Fine tuning enzyme specificity is desired for industrial catalysis. Enzymes lacking structural characterization or favorable recombinant expression are not amenable to traditional directed evolution or de novo design approaches. “Monobodies”…
Technology Thermonobodies: A Novel Thermostable FN3 Binding Protein Scaffold Monobodies are synthetic binding proteins based off a human fibronectin type 3 (FN3) scaffold that have demonstrated their utility in applications such as the modification of enzyme specificity and therapeutics…
News New PET Scan Tech to Expand Patient Access, Improve Early Disease Detection Innovation out of the University of Chicago reduces the radiation levels and high costs associated with PET scans – enabling routine screening for the early detection of disease. Currently, PET...
Technology Chicago Quant’em Chicago Quant’em is an experiential card game that immerses players, beginner and advanced, in a world of quantum physics and qubits. The goal of the game is to use quantum…
News Three College New Venture Challenge Alums Aim to Solve Global Health Issues with Edible Worms May 2019 will mark the 4 year anniversary of Mealflour, a social enterprise founded in 2016 by three University of Chicago alumnae.
Program George Shultz Innovation Fund Access venture development support and the opportunity to pitch for up to $250,000 in potential investment.
News Innovation Workshop: Tapping Research Funds The Innovation Workshop at Chicago Booth featured experts on how to use the Small Business Innovation Research program creatively to launch start-ups at universities. From left: Matthew Christian, moderator, and...
