Creating Capacity
UChicago researchers and scholars transform the way we see the world. Research, Innovation and National Laboratories provides comprehensive support, guidance and resources to help our researchers advance their work, including connections to world-leading researchers and facilities at Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the Marine Biological Laboratory and the Giant Magellan Telescope project.
Resources for Researchers
News
Applications now open for Science of Innovation Summit for Journalists
Applications are open now through May 28 for the second annual Science of Innovation Summit for Journalists. The Summit will take place on the University of Chicago campus between Oct. 28-31, 2018.
$35 million in NIH funding launches health research accelerator with UChicago
The University of Chicago and UChicago Medicine are part of a new health research accelerator that has launched thanks to nearly $35 million from the National Institutes of Health.
The Institute for Translational Medicine will work to improve people’s lives by pursuing research breakthroughs and getting those discoveries into the real world.
U.S., India sign agreement providing for neutrino physics collaboration at Fermilab and in India
On Monday, April 16, 2018, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and India’s Atomic Energy Secretary Dr. Sekhar Basu signed an agreement in New Delhi to expand the two countries’ collaboration on world-leading science and technology projects. Read more
Events
Polsky Center Entrepreneurship for Science and Medicine course
Wednesdays, April 11 – May 9
6 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Harper Center
5807 S. Woodlawn Ave.
For faculty, other researchers, postdocs and graduate students
Apply online
Mind Bytes 2018
May 8, 2018
12 p.m. -5 p.m.
Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th Street,
Registration Required
2018 Mind and Brain Annual Lecture: Saving the Synapse
Monday, May 14, 2018
5 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
77 East Randolph Street, Chicago
Registration Required
Laboratory Safety
Research safety is essential to the responsible conduct of scientific inquiry. Contact the Office of Research Safety for more resources on campus-wise research laboratory safety, user training and information.
Innovation
Advancing the knowledge and practice of entrepreneurship and accelerating the commercialization of research.
National Laboratories
We manage one of the world’s most preeminent research networks. From historic experiments in nuclear energy, developmental biology, and particle physics to today’s challenges of renewable power, dark matter, and microbial ecology, these institutions have long been at the vanguard of discovery.