Spun out of Boston University by Allied Minds in December last year, Signature Medical has secured $2.5m in series A funding from investors including Bose.

Rodeo Therapeutics has developed therapies to regenerate tissue, based on research undertaken at Case Western Reserve University and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Living Pharma, an immunotherapy developer, has been acquired just 18 months after being spun out from University of Maryland.

Analysis: January to June 2017

News focus: Brazil

BGU spinout Neuroderm, which is developing clinical-stage pumps containing medicine for Parkinson’s, has been bought by Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma for $1.1bn.

Innoetics, a text-to-speech developer based on research at Athena, has been acquired by Samsung in the highest value exit of a Greek spinout in decades.