GUV's regular news roundup.
Catching up after a week’s break, the latest roundup brings you all the tech transfer news from the past fortnight.
M&S’ dregs are beautiful to Leeds
Spin-out Keracol partners with Marks & Spencer on skincare beauty products made from red wine waste products.
TauRx reaches phase III on Alzheimer’s treatment
Aberdeen spin-out TauRx has reached its enrolment target for a phase III clinical trial.
Irresistible Materials secures $400,000
Business angels from the US and UK as well as the Technology Strategy Board invest in the spin-out.
Hutchinson rings in $105m fund
Based in Chapel Hill, Golden Bell Partners has already secured seven investors.
IGN views partnership with Neon Labs
News of the agreement come along Neon completing its $4.1m series A.
Carnegie Mellon awards $800,000
16 startups are receiving funding through the university’s Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund.
The ceremonial opening attracted several public officials to campus.
Technology transfer could see a boost in the least developed countries if the initiative goes ahead.
Academic Enterprise Awards shortlists nine spin-outs
Spin-outs from German, British, Danish, Irish and Swiss are in the running for an Aces award.
University City Science Centre launches accelerator
Seven startups have been selected to participate in the research park’s Digital Health Accelerator.
Technology transfer for Botswana
Opened earlier this month, the National Transfer Office has been created by the Botswana Innovation Hub.
Surrey NanoSystems develops material so black you cannot see it.
Swansea inks partnership with Haydale
Haydale and Swansea University’s Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating will work towards full commercialisation of graphene based ink.
InnoSpring jumps at second fund
Sino-American accelerator InnoSpring, backed by Tsinghua, is aiming to raise $5m for its new fund.
Sunderland to generate 650 jobs
Development of Sunderland Enterprise and Innovation Hub is under way and could generate several hundred jobs.
Vanderbilt University partners with Bioworks
Business and product ideas will be accelerated to market through the new partnership.
Houston Health Ventures launches its accelerator for health IT startups.
Imperial spin-out Ceres hopes to raise the money through an oversubscribed placing.
Fluid specialist Poly-Pico wins Most Interesting Technology.
New Mexico partners with Sunbelt Technologies
Accelera Diagnostics, a new startup, will commercialise up to 21 pharmaceuticals licensed to Sunbelt.
The flotation raised £20m ($34m) for the biotech.
Washington State plants Phytelligence
Trees can be grown three times faster thanks to the biotech.
Alexion partners with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Establishing a fund and collaboration, the two new partners aim to advance research into rare diseases.
UNC-Greensboro networks for tech transfers
Hoping to speed up tech transfer efforts, the university has set up the Innovation Commercialisation Advisory Network.
Zell Lurie Commercialisation Fund promotes AdAdapted
Belle Michigan and State Garden and the student-led fund invest $725,000.
Iowa spin-out spices up circuit boards
Visual Systems Engineering simulates circuit boards in 3D to test them before manufacture.
California is allowed to invest
For 25 years, direct investments in tech spin-outs had been banned at the University of California.
Carnegie Mellon goes on a diet
Fitwits, a new spin-out from the School of Design, teaches children about obesity prevention.
San Diego updates tech transfer
First announced at the Global Connect Summit in October 2013, the university is aiming to bridge the academia-industry divide.
Institutes of Technology Ireland aim to double output
Both the number of spin-outs created and the level of funding invested should increase by 2020.
Invoke Capital leads Sophia’s series B
Sophia Genetics raises a total of $13.75m in its latest round.
Upon listing, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie spin-out acquired a market capitalisation of €100.4 million ($135.9 million).
Start-Up NY’s board approves the university’s application to turn three buildings into tax-free zones.
Swinburne startup shelters homeless
Compact Shelters has developed portable shelters for the homeless.
Alovita aims to prevent the impaired health conditions that result from bedsores.
Synercon commercialises technology that extracts crash data from a vehicle’s engine control module.
Alberta spin-out accelerates cancer research
Belgravia Tech will commercialise research that creates medical isotopes in cyclotrons.
Gregg Bayes-Brown discusses how ‘winging it’ is a crucial part of innovation.
Winds behind Kite Pharma’s IPO
The biopharmaceutical company exceeds expectations by selling shares at $17 each.
$35m is to be paid upfront, with a further $40m depending on future milestones.
