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Emory Healthcare will join Innovation Hub Enterprises to raise a venture fund for consumer-focused healthcare models and technologies.

Cambridge Innovation Capital has returned after backing CMR Surgical's two-tranche $46m series A round in 2016 and 2017.

Ceres Nanosciences has added a $5.5m extension from investors including the LVG Seed Fund to help continue development of its diagnostics test for Lyme disease.

Cambridge spinout Crescendo Biologics has leveraged its transgenic protein discovery platform to license out an antibody to biopharmaceutical developer Zai Lab.

Rakhi Gibbons has become director of licensing at TLA after 12 years in the tech transfer business at University of Arizona and University of Michigan.

Northwestern is the third US university, after Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins, to team up with Deerfield Management for an investment fund.

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Global University Venturing rounds up some of the highlights from its London conference last month, which also featured the GUV Awards.

Cancer therapy developer Lava Therapeutics has raised $18.6m in a round featuring Merck Research Laboratories unit MRL Ventures.

Leeds has backed its new subsidence measuring spinout Satsense in a round which also featured corporate Unipart Rail and government-backed Northern Power Investment Fund.

Bradford spinout Tangentix, which previously received funding from Parkwalk in 2014, operates a digital platform for computer game trials.