Research

Faculty Start-up Companies

Northwestern University's biomedical engineering department is home to many start-up companies in therapeutics, diagnostics, biological discovery, and instrumentation. Companies are listed below followed by the faculty member(s).

Therapeutics

• Naurex (Acquired by Allergan) – Joseph Moskal
• Exicure – Chad Mirkin
• iNfinitesimal – Horacio Espinosa
• Aptinyx – Joseph Moskal
• Cytostrata Biosciences – Jason Wertheim and Guillermo Ameer
• VesselTek BioMedical – Guillermo Ameer

Medical Diagnostics

• Sibel – John Rogers
• Rhaeos – John Rogers
• Preora Diagnostics Inc. – Vadim Backman
• Opticent Health – Hao Zhang
• Northwestern Global Health Foundation – David Kelso          
• Nanocytomics – Vadim Backman
• Minute Molecular Diagnostics – David Kelso
• Epicore Biosystems – John Rogers
• American BioOptics – Vadim Backman

Biological Discovery Tools

• Nanosphere (Acquired by Luminex) – Chad Mirkin
• Samdi Tech – Milan Mrksich

Instrumentation

• TERA-print LLC – Chad Mirkin
• Azul3D, Inc. – Chad Mirkin