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Last October, top-ranking representatives from McGraw-Hill spent a day on campus meeting with the authors, researchers and administrators responsible for creating some of the best, most widely used preK-12 math...
Eileen Dolan, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Chair of Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics at the University of Chicago, says she learned a lot at the Translation Event covering...
Few, if any, University of Chicago faculty members have as many patents, products and promising commercial endeavors in various stages of development as does Ralph Weichselbaum, MD. The D.K. Ludwig...
During a routine business meeting in September at UChicagoTech’s new offices, Linda Darragh, Clinical Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago’s Booth...
Cory Gerdts, PhD, is glad he was a part of Rustem Ismagilov’s lab in 2003, although sometimes he had to spend extra time thinking about one of his professor’s requirements....
Charles Polsky’s transition from medicine to finance reflects an unconventional path, but one that makes him particularly well suited to act as a resource to the University of Chicago’s promising...
Dr. Elliott Sigal (MD’81, PhD), President of R&D;, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Dr. Michael Prystowsky (MD’81, PhD), Chairman of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, participate in the inaugural event of...
In the vanguard of a new generation of promising drug therapies for treating atherosclerosis with “good” cholesterol (high density lipoprotein, or HDL) is an agent being developed by Godfrey Getz,...
It’s no surprise that Intellectual Ventures, a leading global investor in inventions, hired Karen Kerr, PhD, to forge relationships with universities doing innovative translational research. After all, the recently appointed U.S....
A few years ago, University of Chicago alumnus Martin E. Sanders, MD ’79, attended a “meet and greet” in San Francisco that was held to introduce the University’s new President Robert...
Solarmer Energy Inc. is developing plastic solar cells for portable electronic devices that will incorporate technology invented at the University of Chicago. The company is on track to complete a...
Arryx, a company based on technology invented at the University of Chicago that still has strong ties with the University, is poised to help Haemonetics, the world’s largest manufacturer of automated blood processing...