News Life Sciences Community Convenes at Chicago BioCapital Summit in a Showcase of Local Innovation Hosted by the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC), the inaugural Chicago BioCapital Summit this week brought together industry, academia, and investors in a showcase of the latest innovations in the life...
News 8 Polsky-Affiliated Startups Named to Chicago Inno’s ‘Chicago Startups to Watch’ List Eight startups with roots in the Polsky Center or the University of Chicago have been included in an annual list featuring the top Chicago startups to watch for the year....
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 16 UChicago Researchers Awarded $7.2 Million from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago has funded its first cohort of Investigators at its partner institutions – including 16 researchers from the University of Chicago. The funding – a total...
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...
Program Course Information The PE/VC Lab course equips students with timely practical tools and imparts insights from industry veterans with the ultimate goal of accelerating the apprenticeship process for those aspiring to work...
Technology A Spatially Resolved Intracellular Photoproximity Profiling Technology For Mapping And Targeting Protein Interactions In Cancer A matched pair of photoproximity probes coupled with quantitative proteomics which enable context-dependent mapping of protein complex topology inside cells including to map MYC interactomes across temporal, spatial and disease-relevant…
Technology Novel Exosome-Based Drug Delivery For Targeting Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline A novel drug delivery system using exosomes derived from hippocampus neuron cells engineered to express the Fe65 protein targeting amyloid-β precursor protein to reduce amyloid plaques Alzheimer's disease. This system…
Technology Gene Splice-Switching Technology for Treating CACNA1A-Associated Neurological Diseases This technology regulates the expression of the CACNA1A gene, which encodes a neuronal calcium channel subunit, by redirecting alternative splicing to treat related neurological diseases. This approach can potentially correct…
Technology Small Molecule Splicing Modulators For Reducing Aggregatable Prion Protein In Prion Diseases First-in-class small molecules to change how the PRNP gene is spliced, reducing harmful prion levels and offering a new treatment approach for prion diseases The Unmet Need: Safe, effective,…
Technology Programmable Translational-Activating RNA Therapeutic Platform Technology Many human diseases arise from insufficient protein levels, often due to genetic mutations that result in haploinsufficiency or loss of protein function. Effectively treating these conditions necessitates therapeutic strategies capable…
Technology A Stretchable And Strain-Insensitive Pressure Sensor Pressure sensors are essential to a vast array of applications, where they sense and measure pressure, and transmit information, which help ascertain the performance of a given device. In fact,…
