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Ludwig Cancer Research and University of Oxford launch cancer immunotherapy spinout
Google Ventures, Charles Dunstone back Oxford Sciences Innovation fund
Oxford Sciences Innovation, which will provide capital and scaling expertise to Oxford spinouts, has now raised £320m from investors including billionaire Charles Dunstone, who launched Carphone Warehouse, and Google Ventures.
Oxford and Cambridge spin-outs pitch to investors
The first ever event for investors to learn about prospective spin-out companies from both the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge was held at the London Stock Exchange last week.
Bloomberg interview with CEO of spinout TheySay
TheySay, spun out by Oxford University Innovation in 2011, is an advanced text and sentiment analytics company.
Oxford’s silicon spire dreams grow
Roy Azoulay of the Isis Software Incubator offers an update on Oxford's startup successes in 2015 in TechCityInsider.
Brainomix launches revolutionary e-ASPECTS software designed to improve outcomes for stroke patients
Breakthrough technology automates analysis of CT brain scans to support doctors in making life-saving treatment decisions
Oxford flexible display materials reach final in RAEng prize
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that Oxford's Dr Peiman Hosseini is one of four finalists winning funding, mentoring and support from the Academy's Enterprise hub.
Regulatory support for Choroideremia treatment from Nightstar
Nightstar, a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2014 has received both U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) Orphan Drug Designation for its lead programme, a gene therapy to treat Choroideremia, an X-linked recessive disorder that leads to progressive blindness.
TheySay – the Zeitgeist in the Machine
TheySay, spun out by Oxford University Innovation in 2011, is an advanced text and sentiment analytics company. The company has developed a platform which analyses huge amounts of unstructured text in real time, and will be monitoring the 2015 General Election.