We publish news of technology innovations, investment opportunities, together with updates from spinout & startup companies and licensees
Over 70 people attended the Isis Angels Network event on 4th October, at which four exciting new ventures were introduced.
Isis spin-out OXEMS will improve quality assurance, health and safety, and cost for the management of pipelines and other utilities.
The Chinese Vice-Premier for economic policy, Wang Qishan visited Oxford on Friday 9th September, and heard from a senior executive of Oxford University Innovation about Oxford’s successful Technology Transfer model.
Isis continues to deliver a positive return on investment to the University each year; receiving £2.5m pa from the University and this year returning £4.8m (up from £4.5m in 2010) to the University and its researchers from royalties, consulting and profit, by means of gift aid payments. In addition to this Isis delivers a wide range of further benefits to the University in both financial and non-financial terms. We are grateful to the University for its continued support.
A scanner which combines the convenience of a desktop scanner with the functionality of a powerful laboratory imaging device has been developed at the University of Oxford’s Classics Department, and is now being commercialised by a new company Oxford Multi Spectral Limited which was today spun out by the University’s technology transfer company Oxford University Innovation.
The start of Phase IIb trials of the MVA85A vaccine and related technology, licensed by Oxford University Innovation to OETC Ltd. in 2008, has been announced.
A fund designed to bridge the "innovation gap", supporting University of Oxford inventors in proof of concept and prototyping work, has reached its first close and made its first investment in a new class of antibiotics discovered in a natural product library at the University of Oxford's Department of Chemistry.
Oxtex Limited, the newest spin-out from Oxford University Innovation Ltd, the technology transfer office of the University of Oxford, has secured £365,000 of seed funding to develop an intelligent hydrogel material for tissue expansion. For the first time, surgeons will be able to accurately and predictably control the direction, the timing, and rate of the material’s expansion in the body. This will significantly reduce the risk of soft tissue damage and associated complications. The level of control makes them ideal for use in delicate anatomical locations, particularly in the treatment of children.
Isis welcomes the announcement from Oxford Photovoltaics Limited that it has completed a second funding round in 9 months.
Sixty leading names from the fields of technology, innovation and finance gathered at Club Lusitano, Hong Kong on Monday July 11 to mark the expansion of Oxford University Innovation Ltd. – the University of Oxford’s technology transfer arm – in Asia.
