Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship section contains Chicago Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship news, announcements and events that have been chronologically posted on the CBC homepage throughout the year.
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2020
Posted: December 14, 2020
June 10-11 & 14-17, 2021
Virtual Event
Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO)
▸ BIO International Convention: BIO Digital
Posted: November 30, 2020
December 8, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures Part VII: Final Episode featuring Molly Bonakdarpour, Partner, Drive Capital
Posted: October 23, 2020
November 9, 2020
Virtual Event
UIC College of Pharmacy
▸ Partnering to Advance AI Research & Development
Posted: October 23, 2020
October 28, 2020
Virtual Event
NU Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP)
▸ 2020 CLP Core Crawl
Posted: January 10, 2020
Save the date: November 6, 2020
Virtual Event
UIC College of Pharmacy
▸ 11th Annual College of Pharmacy Research Day
Posted: October 23, 2020
November 4-5, 2020
Virtual Event
Argonne Leadership Institute
▸ Postdoctoral Research & Career Symposium
Posted: October 23, 2020
October 29-30, 2020
Virtual Event
Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI)
▸ Workshop: Dealing with COVID-19 in Theory and Practice
Posted: October 23, 2020
October 29, 2020
Virtual Event
International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN)
▸ 2020 IIN Virtual Symposium
Posted: September 29, 2020
Save the date: October 19-22, 2020
Virtual Event
UIUC Research Park
▸ SBIR Week in the Midwest
Posted: September 29, 2020
Save the date: October 13, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University and SmartHealth Activator
▸ Healthcare Innovation During a Pandemic: A Corporate VC Perspective
Featuring Dave Schulte, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, McKesson Ventures
Posted: August 19, 2020
Save the date: September 16-17, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University
▸ Brain Science Institute Conference: Investing in Brain Disease Research
Posted: August 17, 2020
Save the date: September 15, 2020
Virtual Event
Cures Within Reach
▸ CureAccelerator Live! for Chicago
Posted: June 12, 2020
Save the date: September 10, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University
▸ HERSTORY Under the Microscope: Celebrating Rosalind Franklin’s 100 Year Legacy
5th Annual Women in Science and Healthcare (WiSH) Symposium
Posted: September 8, 2020
Save the date: September 8, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University and SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part V
Featuring Geeta Vemuri, PhD, MBA, Founder of Agent Capital
Posted: July 10, 2020
Save the date: August 20, 2020
Virtual Event
UIC
▸ CCTS Research Summit: Innovative COVID-19 Pilot Research
Posted: June 2, 2020
Save the date: August 14, 2020
Virtual Event
UIC & Chicago Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group
▸ Chicago Mass Spec Day 2020
Posted: July 28, 2020
Save the date: August 11, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part IV
Featuring Shobha Parthasarathi, PhD, Vice President of External Innovation & New Ventures, Xontogeny
Posted: July 10, 2020
Save the date: July 23-24, 2020
Virtual Event
NU NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
▸ Intro to Building Models Workshop
Posted: June 30, 2020
Save the date: July 14, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part Two
Featuring Jim Sullivan, Ph.D., Venture Partner with OrbiMed.
Posted: June 24, 2020
Save the date: June 25, 2020
Virtual Event
Women in Bio (WIB)-Chicago
▸ Webinar – Embracing the Virtual World: A Women In Bio Netgiving Event
Posted: May 28, 2020
Save the date: June 9, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Part Two
Featuring Tom Shehab, Managing Partner, Arboretum Ventures
Posted: May 6, 2020
Save the date: May 20, 2020
Virtual Event
Women In Bio (WIB) – Chicago Chapter
▸ The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare
Posted: May 6, 2020
Save the date: May 12, 2020
Virtual Event
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ Mining Midwest Biotech Treasures: Tales from a Midwest Early Stage VC
Featuring Scott Button, Managing Director of Venture Investors
Posted: February 4, 2020
POSTPONED
Save the date: May 1, 2020
UChicago Department of Neurology
▸ 2020 Chicago Symposium: Translational Neuroscience of Autism
Posted: February 18, 2020
Save the date: April 30, 2020
UChicago Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology
▸ 15th Annual Haselkorn Symposium: Imaging the molecular world of life
Featuring Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and David B. Arnold Professor of Science at Harvard University
Posted: March 5, 2020
POSTPONED
Save the date: April 16, 2020
UIC College of Medicine
▸ 3rd Annual Maternal and Infant Microbiome Symposium
Posted: January 10, 2020
CANCELLED
Save the date: April 15
UIC Cancer Center
▸ Dr. Gary Kruh Cancer Research Symposium 2020:
Hormonal Responsive Cancers
Posted: April 2, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Virtual Event
Save the date: April 14, 2020
Rosalind Franklin University & SmartHealth Activator
▸ The Role of Drug Repurposing in Treating COVID-19, Other Infectious Disease
Featuring Barbara Goodman, President and COO of Cures Within Reach & Clare Thibodeaux, PhD, Director of Scientific Affairs with Cures Within Reach
Posted: April 2, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Virtual Event
Save the date: April 9, 2020
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology
▸ Fighting COVID-19
Featuring Dr. Karla Satchell, professor of microbiology-immunology at NU Feinberg School of Medicine
Posted: April 2, 2020
Community, Biotech & Entrepreneurship
Virtual Event
Save the date: April 7, 2020
The Chicago Council on Science and Technology
▸ Perceptions and Public Understanding of COVID-19
Featuring Alicia Frasier, MPH, of RTI International
Posted: February 13, 2020
CANCELLED
Save the date: March 16, 2020
UIC Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology (CBQB)
▸ 1st Annual UIC Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology Research Day
Posted: January 10, 2020
Save the date: March 13, 2020
UChicago Neuroscience Institute
▸ Breakthroughs in Marine Biology
Posted: February 13, 2020
CANCELLED
Save the date: March 11, 2020
NU Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP)
▸ CLP Spills the Tea! Navigating your Science Career
Posted: February 10, 2020
Save the date: March 10, 2020
NU Chicago Women in STEM Initiative
▸ Chicago Women in STEM Symposium: 2020
Posted: January 31, 2020
Save the date: February 26 & February 27, 2020
UIC Office of Technology Management
▸ How to start your business: Venture Series
Posted: January 31, 2020
Save the date: February 20, 2020
UIC Center for Clinical and Translational Science
▸ UICentre Drug Discovery Workshop:
Strategies and Technologies for Early Stage Drug Discovery
Posted: January 10, 2020
Save the date: February 13, 2020
UIC Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology
▸ Chicago NeuroVascular Meeting
Posted: February 4, 2020
Save the date: February 11, 2020
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and SmartHealth Activator
▸ Biopathways: Building a Successful University Biotech Company: The Long and Winding Road
Featuring Joseph Moskal, Founder & CSO of Naurex, Inc., Director of the Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, NU
Posted: January 13, 2020
Save the date: February 4, 2020
NU Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS)
▸ Biomedical Data Science Day
Posted: January 31, 2020
Save the date: February 3, 2020
UIC Office of Technology Management and the College of Pharmacy
▸ Setting the Path Early:
Early Drug Development and the Road to Commercialization
Posted: January 23, 2020
Save the date: January 24, 2020
UChicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MATTER, the Center for Data and Computing & Chicago Biomedical Consortium
▸ Polsky Entrepreneurial Outlook: Medtech 2020
Posted: January 15, 2020
Save the date: January 23, 2020
UIC UICentre & Center for Clinical and Translational Science
▸ The discovery of a selective CDK4/6 inhibitor for the treatment of cancer: the journey from bench to bedside
Featuring Dr. Larry Gelbert, LMG PharmaTech LLC
Posted: December 30, 2019
Save the date: January 21, 2020
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and SmartHealth Activator
▸ Biopathways: Accelerating Innovative University Biomedical Research Into The Market
Featuring Peter Steelman, Partner on the Pharmaceuticals group, Deerfield Management
Posted: December 18, 2019
Save the date: January 20, 2020
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UChicago in partnership with MATTER and the Chicago Biomedical Consortium
▸ Polsky Entrepreneurial Outlook: Medtech 2020
Posted: January 7, 2020
Save the date: January 16, 2020
Simpson Querrey Institute (SQI) at Northwestern University
▸ Rising Stars of SQI Lecture
Posted: January 6, 2020
Save the date: January 15, 2020
Chemistry of Life Processes Institute (CLP) at Northwestern University
▸ CLP SPILLS THE TEA!
Posted: January 6, 2020
Save the date: January 8, 2020
Innovation and New Ventures (INVO) at Northwestern University
▸ INVO & Deerfield Management Seminar | Company Formation
Posted: January 6, 2020
Save the date: January 7, 2020
Innovation and New Ventures (INVO) at Northwestern University
▸ INVO & Deerfield Management Seminar | Commercial Market Assessment