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Sola Diagnostics develops womb cancer test
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MeiraGTx enters strategic collaboration with Hologen
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Biopharm advancements
Autolus Therapeutics announces FDA Approval of AUCATZYL®
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UK Regulator MHRA grants Nanomerics Clinical Trials Authorisation Notice for upcoming OC134 Clinical Trial
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MeiraGTx’s revolutionary eye gene therapy used at Evelina London
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Series A $101m
Trace Neuroscience launches with exclusive license from UCL and $101 million Series A funding
UCLB News
UCLB welcomes new Chair, Lucy Armstrong
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UCLB and UCL join leading university technology transfer offices to welcome new guidelines on forming software spinout businesses
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UCLB launches Impact Report
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$22m
Oriole Networks raises further $22m
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$12m
Gaussion secures $12m to revolutionise battery charging
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Stanhope AI's 'humanlike' machines gain £2.3m boost
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$10m
EpilepsyGTx announces a $10m fundraise
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UCLB celebrates the Launch of London Social Ventures
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Hologic completes acquisition of Endomagnetics Ltd
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Awards
Autolus named as one of The Guardian's six firms to watch in 2023.
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Orchard Therapeutics announces strategic financing totalling up to $188m.
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$30m
MeiraGTx gains $30m strategic investment from Sanofi
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$61m
AstronauTx closes $61m Series A financing
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$226.5m
UCL partner Apollo Therapeutics receives $226.5m
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Asite acquires 3D Repo
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UCLB celebrates 30 years
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Chancellor visits UCL East as the government announces a boost for university spinouts
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Bloomsbury Genetic Therapies receives Orphan Drug Designations from the European Commission and US FDA.
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First European commercial ROCTAVIAN treatment takes place in Germany
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Biopharm advancements
BioMarin announces stable and durable annualised bleed control in the largest Phase 3 gene therapy study in adults with severe Haemophilia A.
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Orchard Therapeutics announces historic agreement making Libmeldy available by NHS England for MLD patients.
View articleFirst gene therapy for adults with severe Haemophilia A, BioMarin's ROCTAVIAN™ (valoctocogene roxaparvovec), approved by European Commission (EC)
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Freeline initiates dosing of second cohort in MARVEL-1 trial of FLT190 gene therapy candidate for people with Fabry disease
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Bramble Energy secures £35m
Series B investment round to continue its development of hydrogen fuel cells.
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Engitix announces expanded collaboration and licensing agreement with Takeda to develop new anti-fibrotic therapies in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
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Bloomsbury Genetic Therapies launches with Seed financing of £5m to develop potentially curative gene therapy treatments for rare neurological and metabolic diseases.
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Spinouts
UCLB spinout, Senceive, is acquired by Eddyfi/NDT.
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Achilles Therapeutics announces its IPO on NASDAQ.
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UCL spinout, Satalia is acquired by WPP, the world's largest advertising firm.
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Apollo Therapeutics raises £100m
Series A funding to rapidly advance cutting-edge science.
View articleBramble Energy secures £5m
Series A investment to support the launch of its zero-emissions portable power product range.
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Carbon Re secures £1m
seed funding to help energy-intensive industries achieve Net Zero.
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Axovia Therapeutics, backed by Deerfield Management Co., launched to develop transformative medicines for ciliopathies.
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UCLB's CEO, Anne Lane, receives a Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her commitment to commercialisation throughout her career.
View articleApollo Therapeutics wins Praxis Auril KE Deal of the Year, for attracting major investment to empower a unique, multi-university portfolio-based biopharmaceuticals venture.
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NovalGen doses its first patient in Phase I study in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia and Mantle Cell Lymphoma.
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Investments
Freeline receives further $80m
from Syncona in its Series C funding round, to develop curative gene therapies for chronic systemic diseases.
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UCLB and Apollo Therapeutics secure first out-licensing deal to Deerfield, a leading U.S. healthcare investment firm.
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Humanloop raises funding to teach AI to learn from humans faster.
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UCL Technology Fund announces first close of £100m
Fund 2.
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UCL-Ventura CPAP device.
UCL supports worldwide dissemination of free-to-access manufacturing instructions for COVID-19 breathing aids.
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UCLB wins Knowledge Exchange External Initiative of the Year, for its global dissemination of the UCL-Ventura breathing aid.
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UCL artist, Onya McCausland launches paint made from coal mine waste.
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Orchard Therapeutics makes progress in its mission to help people with rare diseases.
Orchard announces FDA-granted orphan drug designation for OTL-102 for the treatment of X-linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease.
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Orchard announces first patient dosed with OTL-201 gene therapy in Proof of Concept clinical trial.
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Freeline Therapeutics makes its NASDAQ debut, raising $158.8m
IPO.
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Two UCLB spinout companies announced winners at the SEHTA MedTech Business Awards.
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Social venture
UCLB launches funding for early-stage social ventures.
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NHS England provides online support, developed at UCL, for type 2 diabetes.
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QuellTx raises £35m
Series A financing, backed by Syncona.
View articleEchopoint raises £2.8m
to address the 'grey zone' of heart disease treatment.
View articleAchilles Therapeutics raises £100m
in oversubscribed Series B financing round.
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£6.5m
of funding for spinout, AstronauTx for dementia research.
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Dr Anne Lane appointed as new Managing Director for UCLB.
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Four UCLB spinout companies are named finalists in the European Lifestars Awards: Ixico, Orchard Therapeutics, Quell Therapeutics, Autolus Therapeutics.
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Development of a new gene therapy for the treatment of haemophilia A, licensed to BioMarin, on track.
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Spinouts
UCLB spinouts raise a total of $460.9m in their IPOs on NASDAQ.
Autolus Therapeutics IPO
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Meira GTx IPO
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Orchard Therapeutics acquires rare disease gene therapy portfolio from GSK.
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Investments
Freeline secures over £88m
Series B funding to drive its programmes through clinical development.
View articleOrchard Therapeutics announces $150m
Series C financing to advance gene therapy pipeline.
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Engitix closes £5m
Series A financing to progress liver disease and pancreatic cancer treatment.
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Endomag secures $10m
Series C funding to establish better breast cancer care.
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UCLB spinout Endomag wins two prestigious awards: The Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation, Institute of Physics' British Business Innovation Award.
View articleOrchard Therapeutics win GUV Deal of the Year Award, for its oversubscribed $110m Series B funding round.
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Biopharm advancements
BioMarin provides 1.5 years of clinical data for Valoctocogene Roxaparvovec gene therapy for severe haemophilia A, developed by Prof. Amit Nathwani, UCL Cancer Institute.
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First patient treated in trial of a novel liver dialysis device, DIALIVE.
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Apollo Therapeutics launches its first four drug discovery programmes in collaboration with academics at all three partner universities, spanning a variety of disease areas and drug modalities.
View articleOrchard Therapeutics announces $110m
Series B financing to advance transformative gene therapy pipeline.
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Series C funding to establish clinical proof of concept for three novel haematological cancer programmes.
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UCLB spinout company Puridify acquired by GE Healthcare.
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UCLB spinout Chirp collaborates with Hijinx to bring toys to life.
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Launches
£50m
UCL Technology Fund launched to support academics whose research has commercial potential.
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Apollo Therapeutics Fund launched to drive therapeutic innovation.
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Research into a potential cure for blindness.
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BioMarin provides positive data from its Phase 1/2 clinical trial, showing that patients with haemophilia A had improved and sustained clotting function.
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Achilles Therapeutics raises £13.2m
Series A funding to develop immunotherapies for cancer.
View articleAutolus secures £40m