News Patent of the Week: A Universal Microfluidic Culture System Microfluidic chips are useful in several applications, such as drug discovery, because of their ability to automatically replicate various cellular environments. As opposed to traditional dish-and-pipette techniques – which can...
News Health Diagnostics 2021: ‘Everything Has Changed’ The annual Entrepreneurial Outlook series continued last week with a discussion about health diagnostics and the state of the industry in 2021. The discussion was moderated by Christine Karslake, MBA...
News Small Business Spotlight: With Taylor’s Tacos, West Coast Street Food Finds West Side Community After moving back home to Chicago from California, Taylor Mason missed Los Angeles’ ubiquitous street tacos. She’d get an occasional whiff thanks to a guy who sporadically set up a...
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,…
News 16 UChicago Researchers Awarded $7.2 Million from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago has funded its first cohort of Investigators at its partner institutions – including 16 researchers from the University of Chicago. The funding – a total...
Technology Antibody-Targeted Enzymatic Chemoprotection Cytotoxic chemotherapy involves drugs that inhibit cellular division, killing or blocking the growth of cancer cells. However, chemotherapy blocks the growth of noncancerous cells, which causes an assortment of adverse…
Technology A High-Throughput, Label-Free Microfluidic System For Combinatorial Droplet Generation, Storage, And Analysis A microfluidic platform consisting of a two-layer PDMS system that generates and stores combinatorial droplets, enabling high-throughput screening with an integrated label-free, image-based detection system for real-time quantification of droplet…
Technology A High Throughput Microfluidic Chip With Precise Environmental Control for Cell and Organoid Culture Microfluidic chips are useful in applications such as drug discovery assays because of their ability to replicate dynamic cellular environments in a high-throughput and automatable fashion. Despite this, currently available…
Technology Glycan Proximity Sequencing (GPS) For Single-Cell Multi-omics Glycoproteomics TL;DR: Glycan Proximity Sequencing (GPS) is a next-generation single-cell multi-omics assay that measures mRNA expression, extracellular protein abundance, global glycan motifs, and protein-specific glycoforms on individual cells. By combining lectin–…
News 8 Polsky-Affiliated Startups Named to Chicago Inno’s ‘Chicago Startups to Watch’ List Eight startups with roots in the Polsky Center or the University of Chicago have been included in an annual list featuring the top Chicago startups to watch for the year....
News Innovation Fund Invests $250,000 in Microbiome-based Startup The University of Chicago Innovation Fund has announced plans to invest up to $250,000 into BiomeSense, a startup developing a fully-automated biosensor for low-cost, scalable microbiome testing. On Thursday, May...
News Polsky Center’s Innovation Fund Renamed to Honor George P. Shultz The UChicago Innovation Fund will be renamed the George Shultz Innovation Fund in recognition of the honorable George P. Shultz.
