Our regular news roundup returns with all of last week's news.
Catch up on all the university innovation, investment, and business news from last week.
Tissue healing up nicely with $750k
John Hopkins spin-out Tissue Analytics lands $750,000 seed round from China-based internet firm Tencent.
Novo Seeds planted at Biosynthia
Novo Seeds leads $1.9m investment into Technical University of Denmark spin-out Biosynthia.
Edinburgh revitalises its venture fund
Edinburgh University invests £6m ($9.4m) into its Old College Capital university venturing fund.
Rice grows with biggest gift in its history
Rice University receives $50m gift – the largest in its history – from venture capitalist John Doerr.
UCLA’s Anderson School of Management gifted $100m from long time supporter Marion Anderson.
Enterprise closes series A at £4m
Sussex spin-out Enterprise Therapeutics secures additional £2.4m in series A backing, bringing round total to £4m.
Osage University Partners’ closes second fund $15m over target at $200m.
Oxbridge woos investors at London Stock Exchange
Oxford and Cambridge universities hold first double-header event to attract investors to spin-out opportunities.
Infant jaundice challenged by MSU’s TheraB
TheraB, a spin-out of Michigan State University, secures $150,000 from Quantum Medical Concepts for treating infant jaundice.
EventMap finds path to investment
Queen’s University of Belfast spin-out EventMap nabs £85,000 ($133,340) to create 10 new jobs in Northern Ireland.
BioNTech signs Eli Lilly up for battle against cancer
Eli Lilly pays $30m signing fee to tap into Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz immunotherapy spin-out BioNTech.
British Columbia University spin-out Cloudburst Research acquired by Google.
Precision finds the mark with $25.6m
US-based biotech Precision Biosciences raises $25.6m in series A backing in a round backed by Osage and others.
New Hampshire’s angelic students
New Hampshire University launches student angel fund with support of alumnus Mel Rines.
Oxford launches world’s largest university venturing fund
GUV editor Gregg Bayes-Brown takes a closer look at Oxford’s record-breaking university venturing unit Oxford Sciences Innovation.
UC San Diego finds space to innovate
UC San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute launches incubator space.
Chapel Hill life sciences spin-out Spyryx Biosciences secures $18m series A.
UK-based early-stage investor Mercia Fund Management names new investment director and head of technology transfer.
Crown research institute GNS Science becomes fifteenth partner in New Zealand’s KiwiNet consortium.
Cytena’s seeds grow with $1.25m
Freiburg’s medtech spin-out Cytena raises €1.1m ($1.25m) in seed funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds.
Progenity picks up Stanford’s Carmenta
Carmenta Bioscience, a life sciences spin-out of Stanford University, acquired by pharmaceutical firm Progenity.
UniQuest ventures forth with AstraZeneca
Queensland’s TTO UniQuest partners AstraZeneca on open innovation platform to support academic drug discovery.
Oakland test drives its first spin-out
Fulcrum Engineering spins out of Oakland University to commercialise passenger safety in the event of a crash.
