UChicagoTech’s work involves finding commercialization partners to help develop early stage technology invented or discovered at the University. Where appropriate, UChicagoTech will also help create new companies as vehicles for this purpose. This section offers a view of our partners, start-ups, and cumulative pipeline since technology transfer started at the University of Chicago in 1986.
Licensed Product Pipeline
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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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Monsters of the Midway
UChicago licensee NephRx is moving swiftly to bring to market therapeutics for patients with kidney transplants and mucositis.
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Reflexion holds a mirror up to disease
Stephen Kent, UChicago Professor of Chemistry, and partners founded start-up Reflexion in 2009 with the goal of creating more effective protein therapeutics.
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Improving precollege education
Timothy Knowles, PhD, John Dewey Director, Urban Education Institute, is in discussions with McGraw-Hill about commercializing UEI tools that help improve teaching and learning.
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Crystallizing the problem
Lance Stewart, CEO of Emerald BioSystems and Emerald BioStructures, licenses UChicago technology to crystallize proteins for basic research and drug discovery.
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Solarmer Energy Inc. expects sun to shine on Chicago invention
Company is developing cells for portable electronic devices that will incorporate technology invented by the University of Chicago.
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