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UChicago Startup Aims to Predict Behavior of Trillions of Microorganisms

A new University of Chicago startup is working to better predict the behavior of the trillions of microorganisms living inside the human body and harness them to treat disease. Gusto…

AbbVie, U of C Choose First Batch of Cancer Research Projects

Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie and University of Chicago have picked their initial set of projects to research cancer, a deadly disease given a renewed focus under the Obama administration. They include…

Innovation Fund Invests $500,000 in Health and Energy Companies

The University of Chicago Innovation Fund announced plans to invest up to $500,000 into two companies—Cephalgia Therapeutics and RWEDI water—that are working to combat migraines and increase water efficiency, respectively.…

Scientist Builds Drug Development Company Out of Research Lab

When Cathryn Nagler set out to develop drugs to treat childhood food allergies, she knew she was heading into unchartered territory. Although Nagler, the Bunning Food Allergy Professor, has been…

AbbVie, University of Chicago Collaborate to Advance Cancer Research

The University of Chicago and AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company, have entered into a five-year collaboration agreement designed to improve the pace of discovery and advance medical research in oncology…

New Chief Marketing Officer Takes Strategic View

While Divya Varshney attended the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, earning her master's of business administration in 1999, she was not even aware of UChicagoTech. Recently named…

University Spinoff Puts Research Results into Practice

One year ago, as the University of Chicago’s first not-for-profit spinoff, UChicago Impact was conducting just one pilot project in Michigan City, Indiana. Today it has sold its educational tools…

Ice Slurry Research Pays Off for a Cleaner Environment

“Twenty years ago, Argonne and the DOE must have had a crystal ball to develop an environmentally friendly refrigeration system that could meet today’s urgent demand for ‘green’ technologies,” says…

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…
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