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Where Are They Now? Beacon Takes Aim at Eliminating Airborne Transmission

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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…

Executive-in-Residence Nancy Harvey: Right Place, Right Time

Two out of two. That's how many new business ventures Nancy Harvey has seen come to fruition since she joined UChicagoTech, the University of Chicago's Office of Technology and…

Innovation Fund Targets Leukemia

"This award will permit us to build upon our preliminary data to facilitate the development of a promising new strategy to treat acute leukemia." So says Michael J. Thirman, MD,…

Universities Pool Resources, Spotlight Research

"The heart of a thriving company-formation effort begins with university research," said James Tyree, president of Abbott Biotech Ventures and keynote speaker at the Chicago Innovation Spotlight on May 18,…

Redesigning Semiconductors

"Sometimes you have to rethink the chemistry, rethink the materials, rethink the manufacturing process," says Dmitri Talapin, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. This approach led Talapin—who specializes…

One-stop Browsing for Chicago Area Innovation

Bigger is better — at least when it comes to disseminating information about innovative research. So is broader and more selective. The new Chicago Innovation Pipeline website, a multi-institution collaboration…

Building a Platform to Fight Disease

Chances are you've never heard of lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare lung disease that mostly affects women in their thirties and forties. With this disease, which is also called LAM, patients get…

Monsters of the Midway

UChicago licensee NephRx is moving swiftly to bring to market therapeutics for patients with kidney transplants and mucositis. Nephrology professor Gary Toback, MD, PhD (left) developed the therapies that…

Fostering Ideas; Connecting People

After graduating from the Graduate School of Business (Chicago Booth) in 1969, John Van Dyke returned to his hometown of Sioux City, Iowa, to run a group of banks that…

Coming Clean in Chicago

The energy was palpable: Solar, wind and battery. Ideas, vigor and power. Sponsored by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at Chicago Booth, the new Chicago-based Clean Energy Trust and Arete,…

Reflexion Holds a Mirror Up To Disease

Reflexion Pharmaceuticals is an eclectic startup. In developing a novel process for making more effective protein therapeutics, it has employed University of Chicago expertise in chemical protein synthesis licensed…

Davidson Embodies Entrepreneurial Spirit

Some Chicago-based researchers with a commercial success or two under their belt head for the East or West Coasts, which are known for nurturing translational research. Michael Davidson, MD, however,…
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