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Never a Good Time? Just Do It!
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Aiming Artificial Intelligence and Computer Power at Disease
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Focusing on Concrete Health Improvements

Never a Good Time? Just Do It!

This is the worst climate to launch a startup or secure funding in the biological sciences. It's also the toughest time to find a job in the field. "I've heard…

Aiming Artificial Intelligence and Computer Power at Disease

Approximately 70% of screening mammograms in the U.S. are subjected to a second read by a computer-aided detection system (CADe), a technology for assisting in the detection of cancerous lesions…

Focusing on Concrete Health Improvements

Feature shot on story page: Professor Julian Solway, MD, conducts translational research that seeks to develop new treatments for asthma. Jasmin Nixon, summer student from Chicago State University (left)…

Getting a Grip

“Fundamental research is what keeps me up late at night,” says Heinrich Jaeger, PhD, the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago.…

Glowing Success

Imagine you know nothing about basketball and have to figure out how the game works based on a few random snapshots. Depending on the snapshots you happen to have,…

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…
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