News Chicago Inno’s “Under 25” Honors Seven UChicago Grads Making Waves as Young Innovators Chicago Inno’s annual list of rising young innovators found plenty of entrepreneurial talent to celebrate at the University of Chicago. The 2022 “Inno Under 25” list featured seven recent graduates...
News For Startup Founders, This is the Classic Dilemma The following article was written by Dr. Steven Gould, consulting director for Polsky Science Ventures, and originally published in Crain’s Chicago Business on December 18, 2023. Read the original article...
Technology A New Method of Isotope Enrichment and Separation: Preferential Embedding of Heavier Isotopes Into Ices Isotope separation methods are key to numerous scientific and industrial processes. Nuclear power plants and weapons, for example, require fuels enriched in a select isotope. And isotopically pure or enriched…
Technology A Highly Efficient Spatial and Temporal Method for Isotopic Separation Present isotope separation methods utilize laser beams, centrifugation, and diffusion to exploit subtle differences in physical properties. However, these methods are relatively inefficient and require multiple successive steps to achieve…
Technology Computational Method to Design Simultaneous Radiation Treatment of Multiple Metastatic Lesions Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SART) is the precise delivery of concentrated radiation beams to a tumor from different angles. Due to the cross interaction between beams, SART is rarely able…
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 Polsky Center Leader Starr Marcello Testifies Before Congress Starr Marcello, executive director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, testified before the United States House of Representatives Small Business Committee on Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The hearing,...
News Eric Isaacs named as 2017 National Academy of Inventors Fellow Eric D. Isaacs, executive vice president for research, innovation and national laboratories at the University of Chicago has been named as a 2017 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors...
News Polsky Center Announces Autumn 2018 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program, a 7-week highly-experiential program designed to empower UChicago scientists, researchers, and...
News Polsky Center Announces Fall 2019 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program, a 7-week highly-experiential program designed to empower UChicago scientists, researchers, and...
News BiomeSense Raises $2 Million In Seed Round Funding University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has provided support for company through funding and programs BiomeSense, a microbiome startup developing a novel biosensor and analytics platform...
News Patent of the Week: A Specialized Antibody Library to Accelerate Drug Development Researchers have developed a highly-optimized recombinant antibody phage-display library to accelerate drug development.
