Interdisciplinary research projects could receive either $15,000 or $60,000 from the university and access a database of faculty profiles and potential research partners.

Spun out of University of Cape Town, Nisonic hopes to use ultrasound to provide a better method for tracking brain pressure to monitor conditions such as stroke, brain tumours and head trauma.

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SMK Diagnostics is developing a sensor that can detect mosquito-borne diseases more quickly and cheaply than alternative methods.

Chip developer Tusk IC has been spun out from KU Leuven with capital provided by the Gemma Frisius Fund.

Inra spinout Nextbiotix has attracted capital from the institute itself as well as Biocodex and other institutional investors.

Amnon Dekel and Ayelet Cohen will lead the Hebrew University Entrepreneurship Centre and drive more collaboration across the Jerusalem ecosystem.

University of Queensland has taken the wraps off Pure Battery Technologies, which will commercialise technology to extract nickel and cobalt from low grade ores.