FoundHer Fellows is an annual fellowship program designed to cultivate first-time women faculty entrepreneurs at Northwestern. Three inaugural 2023 fellows were selected: Profs. Ruchi Gupta (Feinberg), Julie Kim (Feinberg), and Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy (Weinberg).

Congratulations to Northwestern startups Aplexis (founder Prof. Peng Ji) and Vortex Therapeutics (founders Prof. Sarki Abdulkadir and Gary Schiltz) who were selected from over 125 applicants to be among 10 companies to present at Science2Startup. Read Announcement

Recent funding news from Northwestern startups:

• InQbation Lab Resident and N.XT Fund Awardee, Rhaeos (founder Prof. John Rogers), closed a $10.5M Series A round that will support the in-hospital launch of FlowSense, a non-invasive sensor patch that monitors shunt function in people with hydrocephalus. Read More

• NU startup, NanoGraf (formerly SiNode, founders Prof. Harold Kung and Westlake University Prof. Jiaxing Huang), raised a $65M Series B to scale North American production of silicon anode products. Read More

• NU startup, Mattiq (formerly Stoicheia, founder Prof. Chad Mirkin), raised $15M Seed funding to launch their revolutionary approach to sustainably produce chemicals and fuels. Read More

• NU startup, Dimension Inx (founder UIC Prof. Ramille Shah), closed a $12M Series A to accelerate the development of functional organ regeneration therapeutics and to broaden the company’s manufacturing capabilities. The funds will be used to assist in the commercial release of the firm’s first product, CMFlex, in the near future. Read More

• NU startup, SAMDI Tech (founder Prof. Milan Mrksich), a leading provider of high-quality, label-free high-throughput screening (HTS) solutions for drug discovery research, was acquired by Charles River Laboratories for $50M. Read More

The Querrey Summer Scholars Program offers Northwestern undergraduates an opportunity to work at a Northwestern startup application. Read More

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, March 3

The Kellogg-Q Lab Entrepreneurial Residencies offers current Kellogg students an opportunity to be embedded in Northwestern Research Centers and Institutes. Read More

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, March 15

KQ Residency Information Session

The Global Hub, Room 1130

Thursday, March 9 at 12:15pm

Register in advance. Lunch will be provided.

The Querrey Entrepreneurial Fellows Program offers recent PhD and MBA graduates (Northwestern or non-Northwestern) an opportunity to partner with Northwestern faculty to advance Northwestern innovations towards commercialization. Read More

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, March 24

FoundHer Series | Pam Silver: A Serial Entrepreneur's Path from Lab to Launch

Pam Silver, PhD (Harvard University)

Monday, March 6, 2023

3:00 -4:00 PM (online)

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FoundHer Series | Tales from the Entrepreneurial Trenches: Insights & Advice from Women Faculty Founders

Shana Kelley, PhD (Professor, Northwestern University)

Yvonne Chen, PhD (Associate Professor, UCLA)

Marta New, PhD, MBA (CEO, Radyus Research)

Friday, March 10, 2023

12:00 - 1:00 PM (online)



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Q Founder Series | How Venture Capitalists Perform Due Diligence in Deep Tech

Manny Stockman (Partner, Osage University Partners)

Nii Dodoo-Amoo (Associate, Osage University Partners)

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

1:30 - 2:30 PM (in-person and remote option)

Querrey InQbation Lab, 1801 Maple, Suite 1400, Evanston



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Q Founder Series | To the InQbation Lab and Beyond: Lab and Office Leases, Co-Working Spaces and Future Space Needs

Adam Falkof (Partner, Quarles & Brady)

John Metzl (Executive Managing Director, Cushman & Wakefield)

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

12:00 - 1:00 PM (in-person)

Querrey InQbation Lab, 1801 Maple, Suite 1400, Evanston



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Saturday Tech Talks at the Q | Robots in Our Future

Prof. Kevin Lynch (Professor, Northwestern University)

Saturday, March 18, 2023

11 AM (in-person)

Ford Design Center, The Hive Classroom, Evanston campus

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