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Michael Polsky and Andy Karsner Discuss the Future of Energy Innovation

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Polsky-Affiliated Initiatives, Startups Ranked Among Chicago’s Hottest Innovators
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Polsky-Affiliated Initiatives, Startups Ranked Among Chicago’s Hottest Innovators
$1M Investment Moves Flow Medical Toward Commercialization for Its Novel Medical Device
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$1M Investment Moves Flow Medical Toward Commercialization for Its Novel Medical Device
Innovations in Energy Storage: Researchers and Technology at the University of Chicago
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Innovations in Energy Storage: Researchers and Technology at the University of Chicago

Polsky-Affiliated Initiatives, Startups Ranked Among Chicago’s Hottest Innovators

Eleven entities with roots in the Polsky Center or the University of Chicago have been named to an annual list spotlighting the 50 hottest innovators in the city. Now in…

$1M Investment Moves Flow Medical Toward Commercialization for Its Novel Medical Device

University of Chicago startup Flow Medical is finalizing its product design – taking the next steps on its path to commercialization with a $1 million investment from a medical device…

Innovations in Energy Storage: Researchers and Technology at the University of Chicago

University of Chicago researchers are advancing innovations in every discipline – leading the development of cutting-edge technologies and conducting field-defining research for the betterment of humankind. For this feature,…

UChicago Lab Creates ‘Quantum Casino,’ a Win-Win to Educate and Inspire

How can integrating the arts with science and technology cultivate something new and unexpected? This question is one that Nancy Kawalek has been answering in several ways throughout her career…

How Five UChicago Innovators Are Fighting the IP Gender Gap

It is estimated that only 16.2% of inventors named in international patent applications were women in 2022, according to data from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In an analysis…

Four Startups Advance to Spring 2023 George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals

Four startups innovating in the life sciences, energy, healthcare IT, and medical device spaces will each vie for up to $250,000 in co-investment as finalists in the Spring 2023 cohort…

Onchilles Pharma Advancing Tumor-Killing Drug Candidate to the Clinic

University of Chicago spinout Onchilles Pharma plans to initiate first-in-human clinical trials next year for its lead drug candidate – which has demonstrated broad, potent, and direct tumor-killing activity. The…

A Gut Check for Post-Op Infection: Covira Offers a Pro-Bacteria Approach

Covira is a Chicago-based startup backed by three decades of field-defining research by John Alverdy, Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago. Alverdy, who…

How Technology Commercialization Teams Are Thinking Differently

Traditional technology commercialization operations teams are being asked to do more – an expanding scope of work that includes an increasingly diverse group of stakeholders. A panel of operations experts,…

Quantum Startup memQ Raises $2 Million Seed Round to Shape the Future of Quantum Networking

memQ, a Chicago-based quantum memory startup, announced today a $2 million seed funding round. Funding came from the lead investor Quantonation, Exposition Ventures, and the George Shultz Innovation Fund.…

Novel Device Helps Eliminate Smoke in the Operating Room, a Workplace Hazard for Surgical Teams

A new device designed by University of Chicago Professor of Surgery J. Michael Millis helps remove surgical smoke from operating rooms, a known workplace hazard which has recently become a…

Riptide Therapeutics Awarded $175,000 From George Shultz Innovation Fund

The George Shultz Innovation Fund (GSIF), managed by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, recently selected Riptide Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical startup led by University of Chicago and Northwestern University…
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