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Suzanne Conzen, MD, is expediting the bench-to-bedside process with a rare investigator-initiated Phase I clinical trial for a novel approach to breast cancer therapy.

Novel breast cancer therapy shows promise

Suzanne Conzen, MD, is expediting the bench-to-bedside process with a rare investigator-initiated Phase I clinical trial for a novel approach to breast cancer therapy.
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Three UChicago physicians Adam Cifu, MD,  Scott Stern, MD, and Diane Altkorn, MD, helped to develop a web app diagnostic tool licensed by startup Agile Diagnosis.

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 Agile Diagnosis.
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Professor Ralph Weichselbaum, MD

Innovation Fund advances test for cancer therapy

Professor Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, and colleagues are working to validate a new test to predict individual benefit from radiation or chemotherapy, an effort funded by UChicago.
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Michael Thirman

Innovation Fund targets leukemia

The University awarded investigator Michael Thirman, MD, $50,000 to continue his research on a promising drug candidate for treating a devastating form of leukemia.
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Dmitri Talapin

Redesigning semiconductors

Licensees of Dmitri Talapin's "electronic glue" and nanocrystal technology are developing a number of killer apps
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Michael Davidson, MD

Davidson embodies entrepreneurial spirit

Cardiologist Michael Davidson, MD, has co-founded two companies and is currently developing a promising therapy that may help lower cholesterol levels.
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Stephen Kent

Kent and Cohn Projects Funded in Pilot Innovation Fund Round

Co-investigators Susan Cohn and Alexandre Chlenski received one of two pilot innovation fund grants to explore the broader use of a drug candidate they've developed for treating cancer.
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