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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,…

Water No Match for New Self-Healing Sticky Gel

Scientists can now manufacture a synthetic version of the self-healing sticky substance that mussels use to anchor themselves to rocks in pounding ocean surf and surging tidal basins. A…

Kent and Cohn Projects Funded in Pilot Innovation Fund Round

The University of Chicago's Office of Technology and Intellectual Property's (UChicagoTech) new Innovation Fund reached an important milestone at the end of 2010 with the successful completion of a pilot…

TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More

Ellen Rudnick, MBA ’73, Executive Director of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the Booth School of Business, works to further University innovation by fostering collaboration both inside and…

Mentoring Program to Bridge Gap Between Ideas and Innovation

The inaugural event of the new Chicago Innovators Mentors program matched experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and domain experts with innovating faculty from multiple institutions. Left to right: Mentor Dan Schmitt,…

Innovation Science Takes Hold

Innovation was once thought of as an exercise in creativity. Tinkerers looked for a better mousetrap. Inventors hoped for lightning to strike. Scientists put their heads down and dug deep…
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