Global University Venturing

The immunotherapy developer plans to go public in the US having raised $565m since being formed to develop assets of a defunct Oxford spinout.

Christine Karslake is set to lead UChicago’s Polsky Science Ventures unit and will be tasked with setting up a deep tech-focused accelerator.

The Institute for Neurophysiopathology spinout has completed a series D round.

Indiana University is among four US institutions selected by the US Department of Defense's open national security innovation programme for a new accelerator targeting applied research spinouts.

The telecoms group has bought a 51% stake in its portfolio company Invenium, a mobility data analytics company spun out of TU Graz.

The insulation breakage measuring device producer is joining Ampacimon having launched out of Polytechnic University of Madrid over ten years ago.

University of Washington spinout AltPep will use the money to advance work on its lead asset that targets Alzheimer’s disease.

Fidelity provided a $4.8m second tranche after a first close featuring vehicles for Kyushu University and Osaka University.

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

Pitt spinout BlueSphere Bio has attracted an initial $45.6m in series B funding towards a $105m target size.

Existing shareholder Biohaven has agreed to purchase the remaining stake in Kleo Pharmaceuticals, a Yale spinout it first backed in 2016.