Maina Bhaman has joined Sofinnova Partners after serving as director of healthcare investment at Touchstone Innovations for over a decade.

Based on research at University of Manchester, MindTrace is working on artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicles that is able to continuously improve itself.

Alaska Permanent Fund and Qatar Investment Authority were among the investors in a series C round for Codiak Biosciences, based on research at Gothenburg and Texas universities.

The commercialisation firm, which launched operations down under earlier this year, has appointed several members to its senior executive team.

Crescent Enterprises has put $16m into ColubrisMX and XCatch, both of which are developing robotic medical devices based on research at University of Texas.

The precision medicine research spinout from Cold Spring Habor Laboratory has secured seed capital in a round led by Dynamk Capital.

University of Oxford has generated its 150th spinout, 6Degrees, as its technology transfer office celebrates its 30th birthday today.