OxTox Ltd to Improve Road Safety
The 64th spin-out company from the University of Oxford, OxTox Ltd, will produce drug-testing kits for the police to use on drivers that are as reliable and easy to use as breathalysers for alcohol.
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The 64th spin-out company from the University of Oxford, OxTox Ltd, will produce drug-testing kits for the police to use on drivers that are as reliable and easy to use as breathalysers for alcohol.
Oxonica has been named one of four nanotechnology startups offering the greatest value for potential corporate partners.
In April Oxitec announced that the US Department of Agriculture Biotechnology Regulatory Service has granted a permit for the release of sterile, genetically marked pink bollworm in up to 120 acres of commercial cotton in Arizona in the summer of 2007.
Zyentia Ltd, Oxford University's latest spin-out company from the Chemistry Department, the third within the last half year, is based on technology that has the potential to solve major problems in protein therapies.
A new company called TΔS (TDeltaS Ltd) has been spun-out of the University of Oxford based on findings made during research into human metabolism by Professor Kieran Clarke in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.
Oxford spin-outs have been busy raising finance. A total of nearly £50 million has been secured so far this year by some of the 50 companies spun-out by Oxford University Innovation from the University of Oxford, including those mentioned below.
You think you’re stressed? A University of Oxford spin-out company is developing a new way of determining exactly how stressed you are that is proving so successful, it has already attracted interest from Manchester United as well as a major European luxury car manufacturer.
Oxford University has signed a private equity deal, initially worth £12m, to help the funding of its new Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) www.ibme.ox.ac.uk. The deal, struck with London’s City-based Technikos, also includes the provision of commercial and financial advice and assistance in return for shares in future spin-outs from IBME.
Said Business School 3rd and 4th July 2006
The extension of the partnership between Oxford University Innovation and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has been confirmed May 2006 with a programme agreed for a further years joint work.