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Technology Rad51 Inhibitors for Sensitization to Chemotherapy and Radiation Optimized small-molecule inhibitors of RAD51 that selectively suppress D-loop formation and homologous recombination The Unmet Need: Selective agents that suppress homologous recombination repair without off-target toxicity. RAD51 is a central…
News The Polsky Center Announces the Inaugural AI Research Commons Midwest Fellows Program Cohort The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation today announced the inaugural cohort of startups selected to participate in the AI Research Commons (ARC) Midwest Fellows Program, a highly selective initiative designed...
News Midwest Biotech Startup Showcase Brings Next Wave of Innovation to San Francisco More than 35 high-growth biotech startups from across the Midwest gathered in San Francisco this week for the Midwest Biotech Startup Showcase, co-hosted by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and...
News Small Business Spotlight: With Taylor’s Tacos, West Coast Street Food Finds West Side Community After moving back home to Chicago from California, Taylor Mason missed Los Angeles’ ubiquitous street tacos. She’d get an occasional whiff thanks to a guy who sporadically set up a...
News Third Coast Foundry Celebrates Grand Opening, Showcases 40 Deep Tech Startups at Demo Day The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, along with the seven other university partners that make up Third Coast Foundry, marked the official launch of the new San Francisco-based innovation...
Page Where Are They Now? Episode 5 Episode 5: Foxtrot May 13, 2021 Foxtrot cofounder and CEO Mike LaVitola, MBA ’14, has become expert at hearing “no.” He was not initially accepted into the New Venture Challenge,...
News ‘It’s Remarkable’: Deep Tech Ventures Summit Showcases Innovation in the Midwest Nearly 350 attendees, 23 speakers, and 22 startups came together to explore various topics across the quantum, data science and AI, cleantech, and life sciences space at the Deep Tech...
Technology Thermonobodies: A Novel Thermostable FN3 Binding Protein Scaffold Monobodies are synthetic binding proteins based off a human fibronectin type 3 (FN3) scaffold that have demonstrated their utility in applications such as the modification of enzyme specificity and therapeutics…
News Ice Slurry Research Pays Off for a Cleaner Environment “Twenty years ago, Argonne and the DOE must have had a crystal ball to develop an environmentally friendly refrigeration system that could meet today’s urgent demand for ‘green’ technologies,” says...
News The Polsky Center Announces 2026 Build and Launch Summer Accelerator Cohorts The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation today announced the startups selected to participate in the 2026 Build and Launch Summer Accelerators — intensive, 10-week programs designed to help student...
News DeepTechU Venture Conference Returns, Highlights Deep Tech Innovation in the Greater Midwest The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is once again hosting DeepTechU, a venture conference that brings together global investors and deep tech startups in the greater Midwest....
