Allied Minds will henceforth operate without a chief executive after Joseph Pignato announced his decision to resign.

Leigh Brody and Dominik Leisi have joined Albion Capital to work on the life science investment team for UCL Technology Fund.

Luba Greenwood has been brought on to run Binney Street Capital on behalf of cancer research and care provider Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Jeff Housenbold was a former GCV Rising Star award winner having joined SoftBank as a managing partner for its Vision Fund almost four years ago.

Dave Smith was a former GCV Powerlist award winner at Corning and sat on the board of X Display and Versalume.

Former senior sales director Darren Winter has joined Frontier IP to support its portfolio companies with fundraising.

USF's senior vice-president for research and innovation Paul Sanberg will return to being a distinguished professor in neurosurgery and brain repair.

The newly formed DX Ventures starts with more than $60m and nine portfolio companies under managing director Duncan McIntyre.

Life sciences veteran Gerald J Vardzel has been named president and CEO of University of Pittsburgh’s LifeX Labs.

Orange Ventures has been spun off into an independent venture firm with an extra $426m from its former parent company, and added Mathieu de La Rochefoucauld as managing partner.