Manchester enjoyed great success at the 7th Northwest Biomedical Awards Dinner held on the 3rd December at the Mere Golf and Country Club, Cheshire. Representatives from both UMIP and UMIC were delighted as spin-outs and projects from The University of Manchester scooped a selection of prizes ranging from £1000 to management strategy sessions with Pannone [...]

The University of Manchester, via its intellectual property commercialisation company UMIP, has licensed a new technology to Pipeline Engineering which uses acoustic technology to detect full and partial blockages as well as leaks in gas pipelines. Acoustek® is set to revolutionise the market as it can quickly and accurately locate features at distances of up [...]

Nanoco Technologies Ltd, Manchester Manchester based, Nanoco Technologies, manufacturer of heavy metal free quantum dots, has won the UKTI Business Innovation Award in the category of Clean Technologies. The award was presented at the UK Nanoforum event run by the UK Trade & Industry and attended by c. 350 people from around the world. Dr [...]

MTI Partners is delighted to announce the second investment by the UMIP Premier Fund (UPF). This latest investment is in a company called Arvia Technology Ltd (Arvia), a company operating within the rapidly developing environmental technology sector. Partnering with Alliance Fund Managers (AFM), which has invested through the Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) Liverpool Seed [...]

On the 2nd June Chancellor Alistair Darling visited UMIC’s Core Technology Facility building in Manchester to meet two successful biotech spin-outs, Renovo (LSE:RNVO) and Epistem (LSE:EHP). The Core Technology Facility was established with NWDA and ERDF funding to provide grow-on incubator space for biotechnology and high-tech early stage companies. Although Darling was in Manchester to [...]

Financing to bring advanced medical diagnostics for life-threatening infections to market and establish US presence. April 2008, Manchester UK and Charleston, SC- Myconostica Ltd, a Manchester UK-based medical diagnostic company specializing in rapid and highly specific tests for life-threatening fungal infections, today announces that it has closed an $7.7 million (£3.9M) oversubscribed round of financing [...]

MTI and The University of Manchester today announce the first close of Europe’s largest institutional fund to have a single university focus ndash; the UMIP Premier Fund (“the Fund”). With funding from a broad range of UK and European institutional and supranational investors, including EIF (European Investment Fund), NESTA (National Endowment for Science, Technology and [...]

An innovative piece of software that takes pressure off teachers by marking exam papers quicker and more efficiently than humans has secured a quarter-of-a-million pound funding. University of Manchester spin-out company, Assessment21, has become the first to create a tool that can not only mark multi-choice answers but also open-ended responses. Until now many have [...]

A piece of software developed in Manchester that can detect osteoporosis by automatically reading routine dental X-rays has secured a deal that could see it help millions of women world-wide. The technology, Osteodent, which is being commercialised by UMIP (The University of Manchester’s IP commercialisation company), has secured a deal with Swedish company Crebone AB [...]

Nanoco Technologies Ltd, Manchester, UK 18 January 2008 Nanoco Technologies and Sigma-Aldrich are looking at a bright future together with the signing of a distribution agreement and launch of a new range of products based on Nanoco´s leading edge quantum dots. The first materials available through this collaboration form the new Lumidotâ„¢ range of seven [...]