TTU Innovation Hub graduated six companies from its accelerator and helped its wider affiliate community secure a total of $3.5m in grant funding.

The environmental microbiome testing kit maker, based on Oregon research, has collected series A capital from investors including Western Digital Capital and 3M Ventures.

Robert Haché will end his tenure as vice-president of research and innovation at York University to lead Laurentian University from July.

Vikram Jandhyala is standing down as executive director of University of Washington’s CoMotion but will remain with the university in other capacities.

University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores and Liverpool City Council will launch the Sciontec Liverpool fund to drive works for the city’s $2.6bn Knowledge Quarter Liverpool project.

The liver disease diagnostics spinout has secured the first tranche of a $10m series A investment by Fosun Pharma initially announced in October 2018.

State lawmakers are considering plans to fund supports for Maryland’s cybersecurity and life sciences sectors administered by local economic development agency Tedco.

Passage Bio will develop therapies for diseases affecting the central nervous system based on research by James Wilson at Penn, after raising almost $116m in a series A round.

Commercialisation firm NetScientific will delist from Aim to free up cash for its portfolio companies, having failed to attract concrete offers after putting itself up for an acquisition.

Osage University Partners has contributed to a series A round for Vor Biopharma, an oncology drug developer based on work by Siddhartha Mukherjee at Columbia University.