Leigh Brody and Dominik Leisi have joined Albion Capital to work on the life science investment team for UCL Technology Fund.

Former senior sales director Darren Winter has joined Frontier IP to support its portfolio companies with fundraising.

USF's senior vice-president for research and innovation Paul Sanberg will return to being a distinguished professor in neurosurgery and brain repair.

Life sciences veteran Gerald J Vardzel has been named president and CEO of University of Pittsburgh’s LifeX Labs.

MIT has appointed its Apollo Program professor of astronautics Dava Newman to direct the Media Lab research centre.

Clinical professor Matthew Lynall has been appointed director of Purdue’s Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship.

Raghupathy Sivakumar, a professor of electrical and engineering, has been selected to consolidate Georgia Tech's tech transfer strategy as chief commercialisation officer.

James Fogt has been promoted to lead Harris-Stowe State University's new tech transfer office having been with the historically black public university since 1999.

Tony Raven, CEO of Cambridge Enterprise and a GUV Lifetime Achievement awardee, will step down by the end of next year.

Prof Leah Cowen will be University of Toronto’s first associate vice-president for research, building on expertise that includes being a co-founder of spinout Bright Angel Therapeutics.