Global University Venturing

Licensing revenues at Nationwide Children’s Hospital fell from $36.7m in 2017, though the hospital is reportedly projecting turnover of at least $25m for the first quarter of 2019.

RIT spinout HHI is looking for grant funding to commercialise a cardiovascular monitoring toilet seat intended for patients recovering from heart failure.

DSM Venturing and Strategic Health Investment Partners extended the Stanford cartilage replacement spinout's series A round, augmenting a $16m first close featuring Johnson & Johnson and Osage University Partners.

Jean-Luc Moullet has joined the French National Center for Scientific Research, also known as CNRS, as its chief technology officer.

The office has appointed three directors and two advisers including Russell Cowburn, professor of experimental physics, and Cancer Research UK's Tony Hickson.

Parkwalk Advisors has injected an additional $2.6m into GeoSpock, two months after the Cambridge spinout secured $12.8m in a round co-led by the fund manager.

Chicago’s endowment participated in the series A, following a $1.1m seed round last year that included prize money from the Chicago-run New Venture Challenge.

HTGF has returned to back Freiburg's single cell-dispensing spinout Cytena after previously featuring in the company’s $1.3m round in 2015.

Building on work at MIT’s Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research, Elicio hopes to begin patient studies in 2020 for pancreatic, colorectal, head and neck cancers.

Founded by a former research engineer from regional TTO Satt AxLR, genetic analysis platform company SeqOne has become one of the first businesses to be backed by the PSL Innovation Fund.

IP Group, CIC and Johnson & Johnson have returned for a $52.2m series B round in Inivata, a spinout of Cancer Research UK and University of Cambridge.