Health

The Oregon Health & Science University is the sole academic medical centre in the US state of Oregon.

Illumina Ventures started with a target of $300m for its latest fund but has cut that to $200m amid a tough climate for biotech investors.

Adele Moynihan has left her role as head of UK health insurer Bupa's APAC investment unit to join a health-tech startup.

The Mayo Clinic has hired entrepreneurs to speed the commercialisation of its medical research as funding from the government declines.

As sales of cameras and printers have declined, Canon Marketing Japan's VC unit has been tasked with finding new sources of revenue.

Totalling $30m, the funds will finance healthcare ventures spinning out of the academic medical care system.

The costs of making things in space — and getting them back to earth — is high. But infrastructure to bring down the costs is being built.

The decline of cleantech and hydrogen investments is overstated in H1, according to GCV data, while transport investments go cold.

Outpatient surgery can be up to 60% cheaper and produce better outcomes than hospital procedures, but the market is fragmented. Oliver Keown wants to fix that.

Some 46 corporate-backed startups had an exit in May, a handful at more than $1bn. But the market is still in a holding pattern.

Leaps by Bayer's head of healthcare venture investments, Lucio Iannone, is set to be managing director for diabetes-focused VC investor The T1D Fund.