News Navigating Startup Success: Polsky Launches the ‘Compass,’ a New Deep Tech Accelerator Program The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recently launched the Compass – a first-of-its-kind deep tech accelerator program for early-stage startups and technologies. “Backed by a 25-year history of launching...
News University of Chicago Professor Cofounds Data-Driven Molecular Engineering Company For the last 20 years, Rama Ranganathan has been trying to understand how evolution builds complex biological systems like proteins, which are essential for the function and reproduction of organisms....
News With Prototype for Success, UChicago Prepares Students Under-Represented in STEM to be the Tech Leaders of the Future Antonio Castano perked up at the first discussion question posed to the inaugural cohort of Prototype for Success, a new program designed to prepare University of Chicago undergraduates for careers...
News Leaf Automation: Next-Generation AI-Enhanced CAD Plugins Leaf Automation is a participant in Cohort 3 of Transform, a data science and AI startup accelerator powered by Deep Tech Ventures at the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship...
News 21 Teams Tackling Innovations in Quantum, Healthcare, AI, and More Take First Steps Toward Commercialization Twenty-one teams from across the University of Chicago and local institutions participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this year – identifying and addressing real-world problems in seven weeks, work...
Technology New Toolkit And Methods For Large-Scale Spatial Transcriptomics Tools and methods to map the entire transcriptome with large-scale histology sections from whole animal or whole human organs with high resolution and sensitivity The Unmet Need: Research tools to…
Technology AI-Based Ultrasound Analysis System For Automated Segmentation And Classification Of Adnexal Lesions AI-driven system automatically segments adnexal masses in ultrasound images, distinguishes different tissue components, and extracts key features to accurately classify lesions as benign or malignant, improving clinical diagnosis and workflow…
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…
Technology A Wearable Bioelectronic Patch For Controlling Bacterial Pathogens Without Antibiotics A wearable patch using an acidic hydrogel and low-voltage electricity to safely reduce harmful bacteria on skin. The bioelectric system sensitizes bacteria, then modulates their behavior to prevent infection without…
Technology A Novel Antibody Drug Conjugate To Improve Cancer Therapy Efficacy A novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) with a lactate-responsive linker, enhancing therapeutic specificity by remaining stable in healthy tissues and releasing its therapeutic payload in high lactate tumor environments. Unmet need:…
News The University of Chicago and the Grainger College Of Engineering Partner to Expand Undergraduate Track of UChicago’s Accelerator Program The College New Venture Challenge is expanding to partner with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 7 Episode 7: Braintree May 27, 2021 Growing up in a small, religious town in Utah, Bryan Johnson felt he existed in a video game where the rules were all mapped...
