Sarah Goforth, the former executive director of the University of Arkansas’s Office of Entrepreneurship, is now on assignment to the National Science Foundation.

The founder of the university's spinout commercialisation arm said in a LinkedIn post that she is taking a breather to "regroup".

Centro National de Análisis Genómico was the first national sequencing centre in Europe.

Former St Louis University executives Kenneth Olliff and Jasmin Patel will lead Boston University’s office of strategy and innovation.

Darren Cooke has been selected as interim chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer at UC Berkeley, taking over from Rich Lyons.

Mairi Gibbs has been appointed CEO of Oxford University Innovation permanently, having led the tech transfer office in an interim capacity since April.

Photo by Joe Angeles/Washington University in St Louis Stony Brook University, a public research university based in Long Island, US, has named Michael Kinch as its inaugural chief innovation officer. He will lead the Office of Economic Development and campus-wide initiatives to accelerate innovation, including technology transfer. Kinch will report to the incoming vice-president for […]

Azade Hosseini will lead the NYU Innovation Venture Fund investing in life sciences and healthcare spinouts.