The quantum games research group is an interdisciplinary team playing and analyzing existing games as well as inventing, prototyping, and playtesting adaptations and original game ideas. (Photo by Anne Ryan, courtesy of the Chicago Quantum Exchange) How can integrating the… Keep reading
World Intellectual Property Day is celebrated each year on April 26th. (Image credit: WIPO) It is estimated that only 16.2% of inventors named in international patent applications were women in 2022, according to data from the World… Keep reading
The George Shultz Innovation Fund Finals will feature the startups that are finalists for investment from the Fund. The morning program will consist of pitches from the finalists and the afternoon program will be a closed-door session for the diligence… Keep reading
Onchilles Pharma is developing a pipeline of first-in-class biologic and small molecule drug candidates that have the potential to be broadly effective against a wide range of cancers. (Image: iStock.com/peterschreiber.media) University of Chicago spinout Onchilles Pharma plans to initiate first-in-human… Keep reading
Covira discovers and develops novel therapeutics for modulating the gut microbiome to prevent diseases. (Image: istock/ClaudioVentrella) Covira is a Chicago-based startup backed by three decades of field-defining research by John Alverdy, Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor of… Keep reading
The tech transfer landscape is changing and operations teams are seeing new types of agreements, financial terms, royalty payments, equity, internal funding, and more. (Image: iStock.com/GOCMEN) Traditional technology commercialization operations teams are being asked to do more – an expanding scope… Keep reading
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. memQ will use the funds to… Keep reading
UChicago Professor J. Michael Millis designed a new device to remove surgical smoke from operating rooms (Image credit: iStock.com) A new device designed by University of Chicago Professor of Surgery J. Michael Millis helps remove surgical smoke from operating… Keep reading
TERT expression helps maintain the telomere caps at the ends of chromosomes. As cells differentiate, TERT is repressed and telomeres will then begin to shorten with each cell division. When cancer cells reactivate TERT, the telomere caps remain protected as… Keep reading
Xiaoyang Wu is an associate professor in the Ben May Department of Cancer Research. (Photo by Matt Marton) The George Shultz Innovation Fund (GSIF), managed by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, recently selected oncology startup Alnair Therapeutics… Keep reading
The $20M initiative will include a new venture fund and a series of sector-specific accelerators to provide startups with technical and market expertise. The Polsky Center is announcing Deep Tech Ventures, a new initiative offering… Keep reading
Chibueze Amanchukwu has identified a substitute for carbonate-based electrolytes. (Image credit: iStock.com) Researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered a novel ether solvent for lithium-ion batteries that allows for greater storage capacity, more stability, and the ability to… Keep reading