Station Houston CEO Gaby Rowe is to join the Rice University-operated Ion startup incubation project as executive director.

The fund will invest $1m of capital each year in University of Florida spinouts that have already secured the support of one external investor for the round in question.

Spun out of University of Duisburg-Essen and University of Düsseldorf, Abalos has raised funding to kickstart development of arenavirus-based immunotherapies.

Jackson Laboratory cancer drug spinout Cyteir Therapeutics extended its series B round thanks to investors including Osage University Partners and Novo Holdings.

Atomico has led $56m series B round for Cambridge-allied rare disease therapy developer Healx, which also welcomed Intel Capital as a new shareholder.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem's cellular meat startup will use the series A funding to launch its pilot manufacturing plant.

Neil Woodford has been removed as investment manager of the Equity Income Fund, which will be wound down by administrator Link Fund Solutions.

University of Michigan has generated 86 spinouts over the past five years after setting a new record of 22 during its most recent financial year.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Ahren Innovation Capital has led a $16m initial series A tranche for Mogrify, co-founded by researchers from Bristol, Monash and Duke universities.