UChicago Expert Develops ‘Personal Trainer for Your Sleep’

Director of the University of Chicago Sleep Center, Esra Tasali is an expert in sleep medicine and researcher who first-hand has seen the need to change the one-size-fits-all approach to…

Doctors Design a Simple Solution to Drug Delivery Dilemma

Delivering drugs to the kidney is difficult by nature of the organ’s function – to remove waste products and produce urine. To overcome this issue, researchers have developed a new…

Multi-Tissue Organoid Better Predicts Human Response to Drug Treatments: CellCipher

CellCipher has developed a new type of organoid model that captures nearly 70 different cell types to enable drug discovery and personalized medicine. In vitro human models, including organoids…

NetMicroscope Uses AI to Improve Network Monitoring for a Better Internet Experience

NetMicroscope has developed a tool that lets customers monitor their network and extract meaningful data – enabling intervention before any problems become issues for the users. Nick Feamster, Neubauer Professor…

New PET Scan Tech to Expand Patient Access, Improve Early Disease Detection

Innovation out of the University of Chicago reduces the radiation levels and high costs associated with PET scans – enabling routine screening for the early detection of disease. Currently, PET…

Polsky Center Pilots Proof-of-Concept Fund to Accelerate Tech Commercialization

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has launched a new “Proof-of-Concept Fund” to support University of Chicago researchers in de-risking early-stage technologies. “By providing funding to bridge the gap…

Meet the Six Early-Stage Companies that are Part of Resurgence Cohort 1

In October, the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, in partnership with the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, announced the launch of Resurgence, a new cleantech…

Meet the Seven Early-Stage Companies that are Part of Transform’s Cohort 2

In September, the University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute announced the seven early-stage companies accepted into the second cohort of its Transform…

Polsky Center to Support New Biopharma Hub Funded by $10.4 Million Investment

The Chicago Biomedical Consortium Hub for Innovative Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Sciences (CBC-HITES) will help academic inventors translate their research into commercial products. CBC-HITES joins 13 hubs that are…

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