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 Polsky Exchange Member Breakfast: Professional Services February 25, 2026 This month’s Exchange member breakfast brings together our community of entrepreneurs and innovators for an exchange of ideas, networking, and collaboration. Connect with fellow members, share insights, and foster meaningful...
Technology Fatty Acid Nutraceuticals For Enhancing Immune Development In Newborns And T Cell-Based Cancer Therapies Nutraceutical approach using specific fatty acids naturally found in human breast milk incorporated into infant formula enhancing immune defense in both neonates and adults The Unmet Need: Solutions for effectively…
Technology A Programmable Translational Activator Platform For Restoring Endogenous Protein Expression In Haploinsufficiency Disorders The CIRTS-4GT3 platform is a compact, programmable system that uses guide RNAs and human protein domains to boost production of specific proteins in cells, offering a safe and targeted therapy…
Technology Potentiating the Microbiome for the Prevention of Enteric Bacterial Infection in Livestock Approximately 1/5 of antibiotic resistant infections in humans can be traced back to food and animals. The incidence of these infections is perpetuated by the widespread prophylactic use of antibiotics…
Technology Broadly Neutralizing Neuraminidase Antibodies for Prophylactic and Therapeutic Treatment of Influenza One of the weaknesses of current influenza vaccines is seasonable variability in efficacy, which is predominantly caused by escape mutations in the hemagglutinin (HA) antigen, the main target of the…
Technology A Surgical Stent for Impermeable Anastomoses Anastomotic leak is a serious complication of gastrointestinal surgery, with consequences ranging from benign to life threatening. Treatment is costly and exposes patients to additional pain and risk. Current common…
Technology UV Disinfecting System to Facilitate N95 Respirator Re-Use Currently there are several solutions under consideration for disinfecting N95 respirators for re-use, with UV-C as the preferred solution because of ease of deployment and widespread applicability. Problematically, present UV-C…
Technology Functionalized Molybdenum Disulfide Membranes For Water Filtration The invention is a method to fabricate membranes made from exfoliated molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) for improved separation performance and membrane stability. Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are undergoing widespread adoption in…
Technology Hydrogel Electrochemical Platform For Controlled Localized Hydrogen Delivery A portable device that generates and stores molecular hydrogen within a hydrogel using electrodes to precisely deliver hydrogen locally to treat oxidative stress in skin diseases and ischemia-reperfusion injuries The…
Technology Antibody-Based Cell Expansion Technology For Large-Scale And Safe Amplification Of Gamma Delta T Cells Novel antibodies to rapidly and safely expand γδ T cells enabling large-scale production for cancer immunotherapies like γδ CAR-T cells, and potentially boosting these cells directly in patients The…
News UChicago Deep Tech Demo Day to Spotlight 22 Emerging Ventures During TechChicago Week The event will showcase next-generation deep tech ventures working across quantum and hardtech, healthcare, and data and AI.
