Companies at UTP
ADICA, LLC
Adica, LLC is an industry leader in providing Smart Market® services, including business solutions and decision support for energy companies and government agencies worldwide. Its innovative software products provide unique and valuable insights that enable its clients to succeed in the energy marketplace. The Smart Grid can be thought of as a "central nervous system" giving producers and consumers the ability to monitor and control energy consumption in real time. Adica's Smart Market® software provides the brainpower for making informed operational, investment, and policy decisions in a Smart Grid environment.
Anagen Therapeutics, Inc.
An emerging biotechnology company focused on therapies for androgen and nuclear receptor-related diseases. Specific targets for its products under development include prostate disease, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease and skin disease.
Arcanum Alloy Design, Inc.
Arcanum Alloy Design, Inc. is a materials science and engineering company founded to develop next-generation metal alloys and novel processes for their efficient production
CGC Products, LLC
CGC Products, LLC is a research-oriented, engineered materials company focused on developing micro-scale materials for a wide variety of applications including; construction materials, composite materials and the oilfield services industry.
Chromatin, Inc.
Chromatin, Inc. is a biotech company developing and marketing innovative technologies and products that benefit the agricultural, energy, chemical, nutritional, and pharmaceutical sectors. Since 2000, the company has successfully developed and commercialized its proprietary gene stacking technology, which can be used to simultaneously, and precisely introduce multiple genes in any plant. Now, by deploying a broad and unique intellectual property platform, Chromatin is developing specialized sorghum feedstocks for the renewables industry. These next generation, high-quality feedstocks are being designed by Chromatin’s elite team of experts to meet the precise yield and performance requirements of the bioprocessing industry.
Data Defenders, LLC
Data Defenders is a leading provider of electronic voting system security solutions to election jurisdiction throughout the United States. To support electronic voting system security solutions, Data Defenders also provides IT Risk Management, Computer Incident Response Planning & Handling, Information Security and Computer Forensics solutions to Government, Corporate, and Consumer markets. For the Consumer market, Data Defenders has developed a unique holistic and hybrid approach for managing PC operations and security whose goal is to ensure the highest level of cyber security for users throughout the Internet.
EDDR Corporation
Founded in 2004, Education Design and Development Resource Corporation (EDDR) designs and delivers online and in-person professional development training to professionals worldwide. EDDR Corporation works with organizations that are in need of Instructional Design Professionals to create customized training solutions. From small projects to enterprise programs, EDDR is your training partner for facilitators, instructional designers, technical writers and other resources for your next training project.
ForeLight, LLC
ForeLight, LLC, is a company founded on innovation through collaboration, a niche player in the specialty and nutraceutical algae industry, and the only organic producer of DHA algae products in North America. Aiming to bring a new and better product to the fast-growing market of algae supplements, ForeLight engineers have developed photobioreactor technology that enables highly efficient organic production of high-value products, with minimal manufacturing costs. Its expansion plans include spirulina, chlorella, bio-diesel, and other valuable algae-based products, and is currently exploring other applications of its photobioreactor technology.
Intelligent Generation LLC
The mission of Intelligent Generation LLC is to be a catalyst for clean energy adoption by networking distributed power sources into virtual power plants. Its vision is to democratize how power is produced, stored and delivered to make renewable energy economically compelling. A first place winner of the 2009 Midwest Clean Tech Forum, IG uses patented technology to develop the IG Powerbroker. This is a smart device which, when combined with a stationary battery, can dramatically improve the economic efficiencies of a solar installation for large commercial structures or single family homes.
KENJIVA Energy Systems
KENJIVA Energy Systems incrementally integrates Demand Response and Reduction strategies with Energy Efficiency, Recycling and Distributed Generation Assets to transition clients from waste to efficiency and sustainability. KENJIVA Consumer services include design, installation and maintenance of high efficiency HVAC, photovoltaic, small wind and solar thermal systems. KENJIVA Utility services center on smart/net metering solutions which include prototype field testing, AMR meter/module installation and the removal / recycling of legacy devices.
MedTech Detect
Med Tech Detect is an emerging biotechnology company in the Chicago area. It combines time-tested methods of science with groundbreaking technology to develop drug- and disease-testing systems. Its mission is to revolutionize the diagnostics market with new technologies for home or professional use.
Predictek, Inc.
An R&D company focusing on new technologies in imaging. Predictek analyzes functional brain images for the pharmaceutical industry, and is developing a new kind of multispectral imaging for use by eye care professionals.
ProOnGo, LLC
ProOnGo makes mobile expense reporting as easy as a snap. With ProOnGo Expense, smartphone owners submit their expense reports simply by taking pictures of their receipts with a BlackBerry®, iPhone™, or Windows Mobile® phone. Expense details are prepared automatically by ProOnGo’s Receipt Reader service, and the results are available for export to Microsoft® Excel, QuickBooks® Online Edition, and more. Time and mileage tracking are also included, making ProOnGo Expense a complete expense tracking solution for today’s busy mobile professional.
Roberson and Associates, LLC
Roberson and Associates provides engineering development, research management, and specialized technology consulting services for a with variety of corporate, government, and institutional customers. The company has an unusual depth of skills and boasts a very diverse experience base in the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) area with a particular focus on wireless technology including the emerging Dynamic Access Networks and Cognitive Radio arena. The company can be contacted through dd5j@aol.com.
SAMDI Tech, INC.
SAMDI Tech, Inc is a contract research organization that performs assays and high throughput screens for its clients. The company uses a proprietary label-free assay technology to perform rapid and quantitative assays of challenging biochemical targets.
Sigenics, Inc.
Sigenics designs VLSI circuits and supplies packaged Silicon for analog and mixed-signal applications. The company focuses on unusual design challenges, targeting sensors, analog, and mixed-signal “System on a Chip” applications. It has experience in more than 12 processes including exotic process variants like Rad-Hard, SOI, High Temperature, HV BiCMOS DI, as well as post-fab metallization and etching processes.
Sigenics has successfully developed circuitry, sensors, and control mechanisms for neural engineering applications. Its main focus is the development of integrated devices for the biomedical research community with a balance between private industry and grant-funded projects. The company has also successfully participated in several programs not related to the biomedical field.
Sigenics’ research staff has grown to 11 employees (January, 2009), including three with PhD’s and five with MS degrees in electrical and/or biomedical engineering. Recent project relationships include the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Alion Science and Technology, California Institute of Technology, Halcyon, National Institutes of Health, MicroProbe Inc., CombiMatrix, and more.
Sword Diagnostics
Sword Diagnostics has introduced a next-generation detection system for ultrasensitive immunoassays. The system provides researchers with greater sensitivity which enables more accurate testing of low abundance markers. These increases in performance will aid researchers in basic and clinical science research, drug discovery, and could improve clinical diagnostics development, allowing clinicians and scientists to more accurately measure existing disease markers and to do so earlier in the disease progression. The new Sword Detection System utilizes a patented detection chemistry coupled with Raman Spectroscopy.
Therapeutic Proteins Inc.
Therapeutic Proteins Inc. (TPI) and its subsidiary Therapeutic Proteins Ltd. (TPL) are a world-class global developer and supplier of biosimilar recombinant therapeutic proteins as active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). Manufactured in fully FDA cGMP (current good manufacturing process) compliant facilities, its products meet or exceed all worldwide compendia specifications available. Unlike generic small molecule pharmaceutical products, the development of biosimilar therapeutic proteins using recombinant techniques is a highly complex process. From the construction of a genetically modified cell that will express the product to efficient downstream purification and packaging, the cGMP manufacturing of biological products requires development of proprietary techniques. TPI has developed a proprietary perfusion based suspension culture technology for mammalian cells. TPI has developed manufacturing of biosimilar API using disposable technology for both CHO and E. Coli-based products. TPI has begun construction of its FDA cGMP compliant manufacturing facility at the University Technology Park at IIT in Chicago, and plans to supply biosimilar API in the 4th quarter of 2010.
Wrightwood Technologies Inc.
A technology development company with a strong focus on robotics and machine intelligence applications and their integration into industries such as pharmaceuticals and health care. Wrightwood Technologies Inc. (WTI) aims to provide both the public and private sectors with technologies and services that improve efficiency, increase production, reduce costs, eliminate waste, and improve societies’ over-all quality of life. Its most significant project to date involves a subsidiary (Cherry Instruments) which handles distribution and sales of Countercurrent Chromatography equipment and service in North America, while developing applications and incremental improvements of this technology to the world.
