Global University Venturing

Nightstar Therapeutics, based on Oxford research, stands to receive $800m from Biogen in an acquisition deal that comes a year and a half after completing a $75m IPO.

Process management technology developer Iconpro was founded out of RWTH Aachen last year and is targeting its services at the manufacturing sector.

University of Utah’s TVC commercialisation office is to open a new incubator with Recursion, itself a Utah spinout, to provide facilities including wet lab and co-working space.

Ghent-founded indoor position technology business Pozyx has amassed more than $1.5m having recently completed the launch of its initial product range.

Fibronox spun out from University of Arizona’s College of Medicine – Tucson in 2017 to deliver Nox4-inhibiting drugs for fibrotic disorders including lung fibrosis.

GUV reporter Callum Cyrus takes an in-depth look at oncology spinouts four years after Global University Venturing first looked at the sector in detail, and finds there is much to be optimistic about.

Event review: University of California Entrepreneur (UC) Startup Showcase

Editor Thierry Heles reports from Autm’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas

February 2019 issue editorial by editor Thierry Heles

Innovative region: Germany

Tulane University and LSU Health Sciences Center have selected New Orleans BioInnovation Center to administer life sciences accelerator services.