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Chroma Therapeutics Ltd raised £30 million in a third private round, giving the chromatin specialist funding for the next three years and enabling it to advance the lead programme through Phase II clinical studies and bring two further products into the clinic.

Johnson & Johnson's Corporate Office of Science & Technology (COSAT) has agreed to fund a research programme on hearing loss conduced by University College London's (UCL) Ear Institute under a partnership between the pharmaceutical giant and RNID, a non-profit organisation for the hearing impaired in the UK.

More and more universities are desperate to show that they have a positive effect on the local economy. Here's one from the US.

Lots of buzz preceded what was billed as the world's first live, multi-lot technology patent auction on April 6, but reality failed to meet expectations for many of the inventors who put up 400-plus patents for sale.

A review of the literature draws some interesting conclusions on the performance of venture capital investors.

After finding nothing wrong with the specifics of the preclinical data, the product, or how the trial was conducted, the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has ordered an investigation to changes in clinical trials procedures.

Israeli researchers have invented software to “freeze” an image of the human heart in order to facilitate catheter navigation. They are now looking for either an investment or a licensing deal for the technology.

An early pioneer of innovation tries again to spin out its own ideas.

A spin-out from Helsinki University of Technology is looking for further funding and possible partnerships to jointly develop and commercialise its thin flexible paper battery technology.

The UK's Department of Trade and Industry has £80 milion to give away. Is your technology in their sights?

Three small business with a collective staff of less than 60 get to share €600,000 of EU cash

Why not take a trip to Brighton to network with some spin-out agents? We'll be there.

The DTI in the UK sent a Global Watch Mission team to California last year to look at biosensors and biosensing "major global industries, with the worldwide total annual sales of medical biosensors exceeding £2.8 billion in 2003". The team has just reported back.

A Linköpings Tekniska Högskola spin-out has developed plug-in devices for the direct production of 3D animations. The company is now looking for a first private funding round.

A small UK charity has turned entrepreneur to develop a low cost, mass manufactured, modern device to pump the blood of people whose heart muscle is failing.