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Oxford University Innovation Responds to the U.K. Government’s Independent Review of University Spin-Out Companies

21st November 2023

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Oxford University Innovation (OUI) welcomes the Independent Review of University Spin-out companies, published today.

University-led collaboration aims to supercharge UK Social Ventures

9th October 2023

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Funding via the Connecting Capability Fund will provide acceleration of support for the UK university social venture sector.

Professor Robert MacLaren's retinal gene therapy.

Beacon Therapeutics spun out by Syncona and Oxford raises £96 million for retinal gene therapy

12th June 2023

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Beacon Therapeutics, a pioneering new biotech company, has launched with a mission to restore and improve the vision of patients with retinal diseases. The company is one of the most ambitious spinouts the University has been involved in to date, starting out with an impressive £96 million ($118.5m) in funding, the biggest launch for any company including an Oxford spin-out programme.

Beacon Therapeutics launches with £96 million ($120 million) to develop a new generation of gene therapies for retinal diseases resulting in blindness

12th June 2023

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Oxford University retains No. 1 spot for spinouts

22nd May 2023

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The 2023 Spotlight on Spinouts report once again underlines Oxford’s leading position in spinout creation. The report underlines Oxford Science Enterprises’ positive impact on Oxford’s spinout community, while investments into Oxford spinouts remain high, despite UK-wide downturn.

Top universities boost investor confidence with new spinout framework to spur economic growth

24th April 2023

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The University of Oxford partners with top universities and investors to agree terms which will greatly increase the UK’s capacity to turn world-leading research into spinouts that will generate economic growth and societal impact.

Oxford spinout Lumai secures £1.1m grant to power optical computing revolution

29th March 2023

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Lumai, a spinout from the University of Oxford, has secured a £1.1m Innovate UK Smart Grant to develop all-optical neural networks for high-performance computing and machine vision. The grant will help Lumai develop its vision to build ONNs that could be the solution to the explosive increase in computational demand to support breakthrough AI models such as ChatGPT.