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 have attracted the interest of three large pharmaceutical companies according… Keep reading
John Van Dyke, MBA ’69 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 his great grandfather started in… Keep reading
Rahm Emanuel and Nick Pritzker. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane 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, the fourth annual… Keep reading
Professor Stephen Kent. Photos by Lloyd DeGrane 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 protein-screening technology from MIT’s… Keep reading
Michael Davidson, MD. 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, has chosen to stay in Chicago. “Chicago… Keep reading
Professor Ka Yee Lee and Niels Holten-Andersen. 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 patent is pending on… Keep reading
Susan Cohn and Alexandre Chlenski. 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 process that awarded $100,000 to… Keep reading
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 outside of the university. There are many untapped… Keep reading
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, Jim Bray, mentor Mike Scholosser, and Jeff Coney. Photo by… Keep reading
Larry Keeley 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 for breakthroughs. Companies focused on finding hot new… Keep reading
David Mack, PhD ’92. Photos by Jason Smith 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 such sentiments… Keep reading
Professor Maryellen Giger. Photo by Lloyd DeGrane 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 that was developed… Keep reading