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Regulatory support for Choroideremia treatment from Nightstar

11th March 2015
All News | Spinouts & Startups

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.

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TheySay – the Zeitgeist in the Machine

10th March 2015
All News | Spinouts & Startups | Uncategorized

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.  

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University of Oxford Isis Fund II reaches funding target of £2m, closes

24th February 2015
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Oxford University Innovation and Parkwalk Advisors announced today that the University of Oxford Isis Fund II has raised over £2 million, exceeding its funding target, and will close to new investors. The fund achieved its initial target in less than four weeks and will close at almost twice that level.

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Nightstar Ltd increases funding to £17 million

10th February 2015
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Nightstar, which was spun out in 2014 raising £12 million from Syncona, the venture arm of the Wellcome Trust, has received additional finance from its key investors to advance the company’s clinical choroideremia programme.

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