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

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Making Disc Drives Smaller, Faster, More Stable
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2010 BIO: Celebrating Regional Innovation and Biotech’s Future
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Donofrio Speaks at Innovation Workshop

Making Disc Drives Smaller, Faster, More Stable

University Provost Thomas Rosenbaum and Daniel Silevitch, Research Scientist, James Franck Institute, stand inside a shielded room, used to screen out radio interference from outside. To the left is…

2010 BIO: Celebrating Regional Innovation and Biotech’s Future

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn visits the Chicago Innovation Pipeline booth at the 2010 BIO Convention held at McCormick Place. The pipeline, developed by UChicagoTech, is a collection of…

Donofrio Speaks at Innovation Workshop

Technology, invention, creativity and discovery. These forces are not enough to launch a successful product or service, create a company, or change the world. The key ingredient is innovation,…

Improving Precollege Education

Last October, top-ranking representatives from McGraw-Hill spent a day on campus meeting with the authors, researchers and administrators responsible for creating some of the best, most widely used preK-12 math…

Industry Experts Give Biomarker Researchers a ‘Reality Check’

Eileen Dolan, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Chair of Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago, says she learned a lot at the Translation Event covering…

Eye for Opportunity, Appetite for Collaboration

Few, if any, University of Chicago faculty members have as many patents, products and promising commercial endeavors in various stages of development as does Ralph Weichselbaum, MD. The D.K. Ludwig…

Artistic Creativity Meets Technical Innovation

During a routine business meeting in September at UChicagoTech’s new offices, Linda Darragh, Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago’s…

Crystallizing the Problem

Cory Gerdts, PhD, is glad he was a part of Rustem Ismagilov’s lab in 2003, although sometimes he had to spend extra time thinking about one of his professor’s requirements.…

Mixing Medicine and Finance

Charles Polsky’s transition from medicine to finance reflects an unconventional path, but one that makes him particularly well suited to act as a resource to the University of Chicago’s…

Bio-life Sciences “Ecosystem” Faces New Challenges

Dr. Elliott Sigal (MD'81, PhD), President of R&D;, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Dr. Michael Prystowsky (MD'81, PhD), Chairman of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, participate in the inaugural event…

The Good, the “Bad,” and the Good “Good” (Cholesterol)

In the vanguard of a new generation of promising drug therapies for treating atherosclerosis with "good" cholesterol (high density lipoprotein, or HDL) is an agent being developed by Godfrey…

Budding Scientist Embraces Investing

It’s no surprise that Intellectual Ventures, a leading global investor in inventions, hired Karen Kerr, PhD, to forge relationships with universities doing innovative translational research. After all, the recently…
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