ResearchFaculty Start-up Companies
Research
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