Exploiting research conducted at Navarra University and Harvard Medical School, Vivet Therapeutics is working on gene therapies for metabolic diseases.

The Paris-Saclay Seed Fund has participated in a funding round for Damae Medical, which has developed technology to detect skin cancer without the need for biopsies.

Future Planet Capital was among the investors that added an undisclosed sum to the $10m in series B funding Congenica raised in February.

The university has spun out Mac Panther Materials, its first spinout using an external team of co-founders.

The two universities have signed a partnership agreement that aims to increase research collaboration, boost commercialisation activities and develop a joint PhD program.

Evidation Health, a healthcare data platform co-developed by Stanford, took its total funding to $31m in a round led by Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures that included GE Ventures.

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Cardiff spinout Nanotether Discovery Science has been acquired for $340,000.