Emory Investment Management has added Adam Marchick as an investor, building on four hires to the investment team made last year.

Dushant Pathak has revealed his intention to leave UC Davis next week, standing down as associate vice-chancellor for innovation and tech commercialisation.

Harvard Medical School's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has appointed MIT TLO's Tod Woolf as executive director of the Technology Ventures Office.

Maria Vanegas and George Coulston have been promoted to senior licensing manager for life sciences and physical sciences respectively at University of Pittsburgh Innovation Institute.

UMI3's innovation optimiser team has moved across to the Masood Enterprise Centre alongside new recruits Fatemeh Salehi and Jacob Salder.

Rodney Priestley will become Princeton University’s first vice-dean for innovation next February, lending greater emphasis to its innovation and entrepreneurship strategy.

Gerald Goodfellow, a 30-year veteran of the US Air Force, has joined Louisiana Tech as director of technology innovation and executive director of Louisiana Tech Research Institute.

University System of Maryland's Momentum Fund has appointed Claire Johnson as its managing director, with David Wise leaving the position after two years.

The university has placed its research and innovation operation under the Drexel Applied Innovation banner, led by Shintaro Kaido.

Professor of chemical engineering François Baneyx will lead CoMotion, marking the latest progression in a career with UW that began in 1992.