 Articles
 Innovation and Public Policy
Richard Lambert, Director-General, CBI spoke at the Oxford Innovation Society Dinner in April 2008 on the important subject of "Living with Open Innovation".
 Hopes for TB Vaccine Boosted
The world's leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, developed at Oxford University, is to move into the next stage of development.
 From Inspiration to Product Creation
An article on the University website featuring Isis's activities
Spin-Out Portfolio Update
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
2008 is proving to be a busy and exciting year for Oxford Nanopore Technologies, one of Oxford's most successful spin-outs.
Pharminox Completes £2 million Funding Round
Pharminox Ltd, an oncology R&D company spun out from the Department of Chemistry in 2002, announced that it has successfully completed a new round of equity funding, raising just over £2 million from new and existing investors.
NaturalMotion and NVIDIA Bring a New Level of Realism to Games
NVIDIA Corporation and NaturalMotion Ltd announce that the companies have teamed up to offer easy-to-use, highly integrated solutions for adding animation and physics in next-generation games.
New Oxford Technology & Research
Isis commercialises technology and research opportunities from Oxford; these are some current examples:
Obesity Assay
Obesity assays for drug development from the team which identified the first gene and protein implicated in obesity.
Software for Processing Knowledge
The software uses knowledge representations and reasoning to answer questions in areas such as medicine, business processes and the semantic web.
Secure Financial Transaction
A new generation of protocols enhance the security of card-present financial transactions and enable secure card-not-present transactions to occur via insecure communications networks.
Horizontal Tidal Turbine
A novel tidal turbine has been designed and tested which allows the scalable exploitation of tidal resources by a device that has low mechanical complexity.
Suppression of Transplant Rejection
New method for generating regulatory T cell (Tregs) that avoids the need for cell sorting.
Chilli Pepper Sensor
An accurate electrochemical sensing method for determining the “hotness” of chilli peppers in foodstuffs.
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Meet Isis One of the strengths of Isis project groups is that the staff have experience of both the worlds of academia and industry. Learn more  at Who's Who
at Isis, for example: Andrea Alunni, Seed Investment manager.
Andrea joined Isis in August 2008 as Seed Investment Manager to help the University raise finance for progressing technology spin-outs. An electronics engineer by background, Andrea gained an MSc in Strasbourg (France-1994) in the field of Technology Transfer and an MBA in Rome (Italy-1995) focussing on finance. His professional experience spans 15 years in financing technology, from corporate finance in Telecom Italia, investment banking at Nomura and private equity at CDC Capital Partners. Andrea is the author of two books in the field of competitive acquisitions in the technology sector, published in Italy in 2006 and 2007.
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Isis on the web
 Isis Licenses pH Sensor Technology to Phathom
A novel solid-state pH sensor technology invented at the University of Oxford is to be further developed and commercialised by Phathom Nanosensors Inc.
Isis Innovation Commercialisation Success Stories
These pages feature some of our significant successes in recent years.
Oxford Spin-out Equity Management
A new group charged with managing the University's shareholding in its spin-out companies and investing where it sees fit.
Oxford University and iTunes U
More than 150 hours of free audio and video podcasts from the University of Oxford are now available on a new site on iTunes U.
Jobs at Isis - we are recruiting
Do you want to run a spin-out?
Events
OION - Isis Innovation Joint Investment Meeting
The joint investment meeting between Oxford Investment Opportunity Network and Isis Innovation.
Date: 21st October
Location: Martin Wood Lecture Theatre.
Business Taxation in a Nutshell
Come and hear three leading academics from the University of Oxford explore key Business Taxation issues against a background of the current uncertain economic climate.
Date: 30th October
Location: Saïd Business School
Building a Business 2008-2009
A series of eight lectures in basic business skills; including: intellectual property, negotiation skills, raising capital and doing deals.
Date: 4th November
Location: Saïd Business School
Biological Viruses in a Nutshell The 'In a Nutshell' Series is a joint venture between the Oxford Science Enterprise Centre and the Regional Liason Office of Oxford University.
Date: 9th December
Location: Saïd Business School
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