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UChicago Grad Student Named ‘Changemaker,’ Awarded Grant to Support Bionic Breast Project
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UChicago Grad Student Named ‘Changemaker,’ Awarded Grant to Support Bionic Breast Project
Patent of the Week: A Low Dose, Multi-Drug Cocktail for Breast Cancer Treatment
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Patent of the Week: A Low Dose, Multi-Drug Cocktail for Breast Cancer Treatment
Patent of the Week: A More Functional Freeze-Dried Formulation
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Patent of the Week: A More Functional Freeze-Dried Formulation

UChicago Grad Student Named ‘Changemaker,’ Awarded Grant to Support Bionic Breast Project

A graduate student in Sliman Bensmaia’s lab at the University of Chicago, Katie Long, MD/PhD '24, has received $20,000 from Aerie to support her research into breast sensation. The intimate…

Patent of the Week: A Low Dose, Multi-Drug Cocktail for Breast Cancer Treatment

More than 150,000 breast cancer survivors were living with metastatic disease, three-fourths of whom were originally diagnosed with stage I-III, as of January 1, 2019, according to the American…

Patent of the Week: A More Functional Freeze-Dried Formulation

Lactic acid bacteria has uses in the food and feed industries, as well as in medicine and chemistry applications. The bacteria is used as a source of probiotics and…

VIDEO: How to Collaborate with Universities and National Labs as Partners in Innovation

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, recently hosted a webinar for Current's…

Polsky Center Announces 2020 Fall Cohort of the George Shultz Innovation Fund

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago has announced the companies selected for this year’s fall cohort of the George Shultz Innovation Fund. The program…

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…

Building Atomically Thin Circuits for Advanced Devices

The nature of Jiwoong Park’s work is multidisciplinary: trying to connect fundamental science with very challenging problems that do not have immediate solutions – “and there are plenty of them,”…

Patent of the Week: A Low-Cost and Non-Toxic Process for Creating Sustainable Material

Thin fibers made from wood, cellulose nanofibers are apt for use in materials applications because of their desirable chemical, mechanical, and environmental properties. However, isolating these materials is a…

Detecting and Monitoring Disease Using DNA-Nanotechnology

Advanced imaging probes are enabling University of Chicago researchers to predict patient responsivity to therapeutics and monitor the progression of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s disease and several other…

Using Nanotechnology to Deliver ‘Potentially Transformative’ Peptide-Based Therapeutics

A physician-scientist, James Labelle is developing therapies that modify the function of the immune system – by examining why, on a molecular level, some pediatric cancers are resistant to treatment.…

ISTC Releases 2020 R&D Index and Names Three UChicago Professors Top Researchers to Know

The Illinois Science and Technology Coalition (ISTC) this week released its latest R&D Index – as well as this year’s Researchers to Know, which includes three faculty members from the…

The Future of Energy Storage: Bringing Batteries to the Molecular Scale

The increasing use of renewable energy and the adoption of electric vehicles among other advances are creating a significant need for inexpensive and long-lived energy storage devices. While lithium-ion batteries…
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