Team Abigail Prescott, MA Executive Director, Marketing and Communications Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
Event Entrepreneurship Essentials (E2): Incorporation 101 for Startups with Scott Smedresman October 29, 2026 Join the Polsky Center and Scott Smedresman, partner at Brown Rudnick LLP, for an informative workshop on the fundamentals of incorporation for startups. In this session, Scott will break down...
Page Polsky Council The Polsky Council comprises many of the country’s leading entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and private equity investors, who provide ongoing guidance and support to the Polsky Center.
News Meet Abigail Prescott, the Polsky Center’s New Executive Director of Marketing and Communications The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce that Abigail Prescott has joined the executive leadership team as executive director of marketing and communications. She will lead...
News Making Disc Drives Smaller, Faster, More Stable University Provost Thomas Rosenbaum and Daniel Silevitch, Research Scientist, James Franck Institute, stand inside a shielded room, used to screen out radio interference from outside. To the left is the...
News Energy Tech Leaders Take to the National Stage at DOE Pitch Competition >> UPDATE: Team Rise Reforming from the University of Chicago took First Place at the event and was awarded $50,000. Since this article originally ran, Rise Reforming has switched its...
Technology In Vitro Assay To Select Optimal Small RNA Guides To Redirect ADAR (Adenosine Deaminase That Acts On RNA) Enzymes A breakthrough method to systematically select for optimal small guide RNAs using an unbiased approach for improved accuracy and efficiency of all systems of site-directed RNA editing. The Unmet Need:…
News UChicago Docs Develop Content for New Web App for Physicians Three UChicago physicians (left to right) Adam Cifu, MD, Scott Stern, MD, and Diane Altkorn, MD, developed the content for a new Web app diagnosis tool licensed by startup Agile...
News 2010 BIO: Celebrating Regional Innovation and Biotech’s Future Illinois Governor Pat Quinn visits the Chicago Innovation Pipeline booth at the 2010 BIO Convention held at McCormick Place. The pipeline, developed by UChicagoTech, is a collection of technologies available...
News Polsky Launches New Program to Support University Alumni and Entrepreneurs Around the World First Polsky Global Forum Sessions Held in Hong Kong and London
News 2020 Holiday Guide: 20 Polsky-Supported Businesses As we near the end of 2020, the holiday season is officially here. While things will feel quite a bit different this year, we wanted to highlight some of our...
News F3 Platform Biologics Developing Cancer-Preventing Drugs Based on the Work of UChicago Researcher Amifostine has a long history and today could potentially help prevent the development of approximately 40,000 cancer cases each year – the goal of F3 Platform Biologics. Amifostine has traditionally...
