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Novel Breast Cancer Therapy Shows Promise

Moving a basic scientific finding from a lab to the clinical setting is the Holy Grail for medical researchers the world over. Suzanne Conzen, MD, professor of hematology/oncology at the…

Innovation Workshop: Tapping Research Funds

The Innovation Workshop at Chicago Booth featured experts on how to use the Small Business Innovation Research program creatively to launch start-ups at universities. From left: Matthew Christian, moderator,…

Making Renewable Energy Feasible

UChicago licensee Electrochaea uses electricity generated by the sun or wind to convert water and carbon dioxide into methane, the chief ingredient of natural gas. From left: Matt Martin,…

A New Approach to Migraine Therapy

University of Chicago researchers are opening a new front in treating migraine that could hold out hope for millions with the painful, debilitating condition—by mimicking the protective effects of physical…

Chicago Innovation Mentors Celebrates First Year

A superhighway runs into Chicago’s leading universities, carrying innovative scientists, talented students and significant research funds, says John Flavin, the new executive director of Chicago Innovation Mentors (CIM). “We need…

Building on University of Chicago Connections

Rifat Pamukcu, MD, has been greatly influenced by his work at the University of Chicago. While he was a Fellow in Digestive Diseases at the Pritzker School of Medicine, one…

Quantitative Insights Gaining Ground

In November 2009, two new University of Chicago MBA students attended an Ideation Workshop sponsored by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and UChicagoTech. One of the presenters—Maryellen Giger, professor of…

UChicago Docs Develop Content for New Web App for Physicians

Three UChicago physicians (left to right) Adam Cifu, MD, Scott Stern, MD, and Diane Altkorn, MD, developed the content for a new Web app diagnosis tool licensed by startup…

Cultivating Partners

Whether it comes to medical devices, therapeutics or pharmaceuticals, Richard Ganz brings a rich background, widespread knowledge and 30 years of experience to help University of Chicago researchers translate their…

Fostering a New Entrepreneurial Spirit

As an Executive-in-Residence at UChicagoTech, Joseph Feldman has had many “aha” moments helping to build a more entrepreneurial spirit at the University. One came last year when Feldman and others…

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…

Innovation Fund Advances Test for Cancer Therapy

The primary treatment for breast cancer is either tumor excision followed by radiation or mastectomy with or without radiation therapy. Either course is often followed with chemotherapy. But radiation therapy…
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