Catch up with tech transfer news from the past week with our regular roundup.
Last week’s news:
Juno brings big guns against cancer
Juno Therapeutics – a joint venture between Seattle and New York research centres – receives a massive $120m in series A backing.
Portland kickstarts six spin-outs
The Portland Development Commission seeds $30,000 each into six local spin-outs.
A group of leading Irish academic innovators win the opportunity to take their technologies to Silicon Valley.
The University of Kentucky has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
The £40m recently allocated by the UK government to proving university research is commercially viable shouldn't just benefit Oxford, Cambridge and London say sector pundits.
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