Technology Improved Photovoltaic Materials Based on Alpha-Substituted Perylene Diimide Use of organic photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells are a developing energy technology which shows significant potential to become a cheap source of electric energy production even when compared to silicon-based…
Technology Profitable Trading Strategies Devised Through Machine Learning Sentimental analysis for financial forecasting has been impeded by the ultra-high dimensional challenge of numerically representing huge troves of text. Prior efforts circumvented this bottleneck by reusing word scoring devised…
Technology Chicago Quant’em Chicago Quant’em is an experiential card game that immerses players, beginner and advanced, in a world of quantum physics and qubits. The goal of the game is to use quantum…
Technology Nanomedicine Delivery Platform For Precision Targeting Of Pancreatic β-Cells A nano-scale system delivers mRNA precisely to pancreatic β-cells, targeting both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes preserving β-cell function and enhancing treatment specificity with minimal off-target effects The Unmet…
Technology Spectral CT Material Decomposition from Standard Single-Energy X-Ray Scans Summary This technology enables multi-material image reconstruction from conventional single-spectrum X-ray tomography data, including standard CT and tomosynthesis, without requiring dual-energy CT or photon-counting CT hardware. The approach can generate…
Program Chicago Booth and Polsky Center Private Equity Council Members The Booth Polsky Private Equity Council is comprised of some of the world’s leading private equity investors who provide ongoing guidance and support to the Polsky Center’s Svider Private Equity...
News Polsky Center Announces Winter 2019 I-Corps Program Cohort The Polsky Center is pleased to announce the latest cohort of the Polsky I-Corps program.
News From Idea to Impact // October 2019 SnapGene acquired, Xiaoyang Wu moves epidermal stem cell research into clinic, Patrick Wilson receives $2M to develop universal flu shot, and Juan de Pablo featured in UChicago News.
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...
News Illinois Ignite: Researchers to Showcase Breakthroughs in Healthcare, Computing, and Advanced Manufacturing Illinois Ignite 2020 will feature technologies and startups from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Illinois Institute of Technology. The virtual showcase...
News Genetically Engineered Skin to Treat Disease, Promote Scarless Wound Healing, and More The largest organ in the human body, skin is a robust system with great potential to support not only basic research, but to serve as a platform for stem cell...
News Students and Small Businesses Work Together to Address Challenges, Form Strategies for Growth Small businesses in Chicago and across the US have been hit hard during the shutdowns and changes affecting our economy as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yelp estimates, for...
