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UChicago Docs Develop Content for New Web App for Physicians

Three UChicago physicians (left to right) Adam Cifu, MD, Scott Stern, MD, and Diane Altkorn, MD, developed the content for a new Web app diagnosis tool licensed by startup…

Cultivating Partners

Whether it comes to medical devices, therapeutics or pharmaceuticals, Richard Ganz brings a rich background, widespread knowledge and 30 years of experience to help University of Chicago researchers translate their…

Fostering a New Entrepreneurial Spirit

As an Executive-in-Residence at UChicagoTech, Joseph Feldman has had many “aha” moments helping to build a more entrepreneurial spirit at the University. One came last year when Feldman and others…

Giving Back to Chicago and the University

Knowing that the top areas in the country for biotechnology innovation and entrepreneurship are San Francisco, San Diego and Boston-Cambridge, many of Chicago’s top researchers might be tempted to…

Innovation Fund Advances Test for Cancer Therapy

The primary treatment for breast cancer is either tumor excision followed by radiation or mastectomy with or without radiation therapy. Either course is often followed with chemotherapy. But radiation therapy…

Executive-in-Residence Nancy Harvey: Right Place, Right Time

Two out of two. That's how many new business ventures Nancy Harvey has seen come to fruition since she joined UChicagoTech, the University of Chicago's Office of Technology and…

Innovation Fund Targets Leukemia

"This award will permit us to build upon our preliminary data to facilitate the development of a promising new strategy to treat acute leukemia." So says Michael J. Thirman, MD,…

Universities Pool Resources, Spotlight Research

"The heart of a thriving company-formation effort begins with university research," said James Tyree, president of Abbott Biotech Ventures and keynote speaker at the Chicago Innovation Spotlight on May 18,…

Redesigning Semiconductors

"Sometimes you have to rethink the chemistry, rethink the materials, rethink the manufacturing process," says Dmitri Talapin, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago. This approach led Talapin—who specializes…

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…
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