News Water No Match for New Self-Healing Sticky Gel Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf and surging tidal basins. A patent...
News Steven Kaplan Speaks with Financial Innovator Richard Sandor About Creating New Markets The University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute, the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Coase-Sandor Institute for Law and Economics recently held a conversation between Chicago Booth professor...
News How this Former Bond Trader Became a PetSmart Fave Supplier Amy Paris dropped in on 1,500 independent pet supply stores in 2012 and 2013 to pitch her line of nutritional supplements for pets, called Licks Pill-Free. First, dog owners loved...
Technology Method to Integrate Diamond with Other Functional Materials for Quantum Technologies Keywords: Quantum Information, Spin Coherence, Condensed Matter, Solid State Qubits This technology enables diamond to be integrated with other functional materials enabling the fabrication of diamond-based heterostructures, which are ideal…
Technology Ketone Carbonyl Atom Swap Platform For Drug Discovery And Lead Optimization A two-step chemical process using a special reagent to swap a ketone's oxygen atom with a sulfur atom creating new compounds, particularly useful for making improved drugs The Unmet Need:…
Technology Reactive Metal Electrodeposition Process for Efficient PFAS Defluorination and Mineralization This invention uses an electrochemical process where a reactive metal is deposited onto a copper electrode in solution to break PFAS bonds, converting these chemicals into harmless fluoride ions and…
News Polsky-Supported Startups Honored Among Chicago’s Hottest Innovators An annual list spotlighting the 50 hottest innovators in Chicago featured an impressive eight ventures with roots in the Polsky Center or the University of Chicago. Chicago Inno’s Seventh Annual...
News Organ Transport Startup Wins First Place in UChicago’s College New Venture Challenge as Judges Dole out $150K in Investment to Undergrad-Led Teams at 10th Anniversary Finals The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is pleased to announce the winners of the 10th Annual College New Venture Challenge (CNVC), which awarded $150,000 in investment to a diverse...
Event Advising Sessions with Jeremie Bacon April 11, 2023 Serial entrepreneur Jeremie Bacon will be holding student advising sessions for any students interested in entrepreneurship. Please sign up for a 25 minute slot to meet with Jeremie. These sessions...
News Oncology Startup Takes Home First Place at 2023 Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Challenge as Judges Award $1.4M in Total Investment Alnair Therapeutics, a startup developing a platform technology to improve the delivery of drugs to difficult-to-treat cancers, has won first place in the 27th Annual Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 6 Episode 6: Power2Switch May 20, 2021 As a Black founder, Seyi Fabode, MBA ’10, has experienced the challenge of investors taking him seriously. Fabode, an immigrant from Nigeria, recalls an...
Technology Oral Systemically-Bioavailable Butyrate For Treating Inflammatory Diseases Method to attach butyrate to amino acids, allowing it to bypass gut metabolism and enter the bloodstream, increasing its bioavailability and enabling effective treatment of inflammatory, immune, and neurological conditions…
