GammaDelta Therapeutics, an immunotherapy developer based on research at King’s College London and the Francis Crick Institute, has secured seed funding from investment group Abingworth. The company has also attracted capital from charity Cancer Research UK through its commercialisation arm Cancer Research Technology. GammaDelta is being incubated at Abingworth’s London office.
Leicester University has partnered aerial mapping company BlueSky to establish EarthSense Systems, which will develop technologies focused on monitoring air quality, AirQualityNews reported on Tuesday. Initially, EarthSense will look to produce static sensors and offer data modelling and derived datasets.
Cannabi-Tech, developer of a device that detects, sorts and packages individual cannabis flowers, obtained an undisclosed sum from investment fund Agrinnovation yesterday. Cannabi-Tech was spun out by Yissum Research Development Company, the tech transfer arm of Hebrew University in 2015.
