News The University of Chicago Partners with IBM to Strengthen Quantum Computing Startups in Illinois Today IBM and the University of Chicago announced their intent to offer Duality startups resources and support to develop quantum software and explore algorithms and applications that could help unlock the...
News How First-Time ETA Buyers Can Navigate Today’s Complex SBA Lending Market Sponsored Content // Buying your first business is one of the most exciting parts of entrepreneurship-through-acquisition (ETA), but navigating the process can also be one of the most complex. In...
News ETA’s Global Momentum Takes Center Stage at Record-Breaking 12th Annual Booth–Kellogg Conference This week the Polsky Center, the ETA Group at Chicago Booth, and the Kellogg Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative hosted the 12th Annual Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Conference, welcoming more than 1,100...
Page Faculty, Postdocs & Researchers Faculty, Postdocs & Researchers The Polsky Center has a dedicated team with deep experience in bringing research-based discoveries to market through technology licensing and startup creation. From securing intellectual property...
Event Polsky Exchange Member Breakfast: E-Commerce & Retail January 28, 2026 This month’s Exchange member breakfast aims to bring together our community of entrepreneurs and innovators in the e-commerce and retail industry for an exchange of ideas, networking, and collaboration. It’s...
Event Align Your Team, Accelerate Your Growth: A Workshop for Entrepreneurs March 31, 2026 Entrepreneurs and small business teams don’t have time—or money—to waste. These four questions show up again and again in small businesses: ● “How do we make progress when the work...
News University of Chicago Announces Partnership with AI Research Commons, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to Accelerate Midwest AI Startups Inception-stage startups to receive Microsoft for Startups’ technical and go-to-market support, up to $350K in Startup credits on eligible services, and AI model access; benefits from the NVIDIA Inception program for...
Technology SARS-CoV-2 Monoclonal Antibodies Against Spike and Internal Proteins for Therapeutics and Diagnostics As of February 2021, there have been over 107 million cases and over 2 million deaths caused worldwide by the novel virus SARS-CoV-2. Few vaccination and treatment approaches are currently…
Technology Novel Mycobacterial Small Molecules That Bind MR1 And Are Activating Or Antagonistic For MR1-Restricted T cells. TB bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), is extremely slow growing compared to other bacteria and is naturally resistant to many of the powerful antibiotics that are effective against other bacterial…
Technology CAR T-Cells That Recognize Cancer-specific Glycopeptides Across Multiple Cancer Types The development of cancer immunotherapies is limited by a lack of targetable tumor antigens. Most currently targeted antigens have basal expression in healthy tissue, which results in potentially life threatening…
Technology Programmable Translational-Activating RNA Therapeutic Platform Technology Many human diseases arise from insufficient protein levels, often due to genetic mutations that result in haploinsufficiency or loss of protein function. Effectively treating these conditions necessitates therapeutic strategies capable…
