News George Shultz Innovation Fund Announces 4 Finalists Pitching for Potential Investment The 2026 George Shultz Innovation Fund finalists are developing novel software, medical devices, and therapeutics. Managed by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the George Shultz Innovation Fund provides up to...
Technology Small Molecule Immunopotentiator Conjugates of NF-KB Activators as Adjuvants With Enhanced Efficacy And Reduced Toxicity Imidazoquinolinone derivatives that activate Toll-like receptor (TLR) 7/8 are small molecule immune potentiators (SMIPs) that have potent activity as vaccine adjuvants and as anti-tumor agents. However, these molecules have high…
Technology Data-Driven Discovery Of Innate Immunomodulators Via Machine Learning-Guided High Throughput Screening Novel machine learning-enable platform to guide in vitro experimental screening and discovery of small molecule immunomodulators to improve immune responses The unmet need: Platform to resolve unregulated immune potentiator…
Page Venture Gallery Venture Gallery View startups founded from across the University of Chicago ecosystem in a range of industries. Welcome to the Venture Gallery! The Polsky Center provides “first look” and early...
Program Collaboratorium Showcase your research, technology, or ideas and develop a better understanding of the next steps to pursue a business opportunity.
News Giving Back to Chicago and the University Knowing that the top areas in the country for biotechnology innovation and entrepreneurship are San Francisco, San Diego and Boston-Cambridge, many of Chicago’s top researchers might be tempted to move...
News Polsky Supports 13 Teams in Spring Quarter I-Corps Cohort The Polsky Center ran its National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported I-Corps program virtually during the Spring quarter and accepted the largest number of teams of any cohort managed to-date. Polsky supported...
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...
News 22 Teams From Across Campus Explore Commercial Potential of New Ideas More than 20 teams participated in the Polsky Center I-Corps program this academic year – all with new research and ideas addressing challenges across various industries. The goal of the...
News Fall 2025 Collaboratorium Connects Researchers and Business Expertise Connecting researchers and scientists with business expertise, the Fall 2025 Collaboratorium will feature teams participating in the Polsky I-Corps program in addition to startups from other areas of the...
Technology Self-assembling Nanofibril Particles for Controlled Release of IV and SUBQ Therapeutics Clinically approved methods for the controlled release of oral therapies have demonstrated their efficacy in reducing required dosage, administration frequency, and side effects, thereby boosting patient compliance. Despite these successes,…
Technology Machine Learning-Based Prediction Of Viral Mutations From Genomic Sequences There have been significant research efforts to develop machine learning and predictive analytics based tools to predict viral evolution which remains the main obstacle in the early detection of drug-resistant…
