Spinout Companies
The Institute of Cancer Research establishes spinout companies where this is the most appropriate route to patient benefit.
Recent successes from our spinout portfolio include molecular glue degrader company Monte Rosa Therapeutics – which listed on the New York NASDAQ stock exchange, raising more than $220m at its Initial Public Offering (IPO), Kodiform Therapeutics, and Sentinal4D.
Other companies to spin out from ICR science in the past include Domainex, Chroma Therapeutics and PIramed.
Investors
We are overseeing several new ventures that could, with the right partner, become new companies in areas from digital pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) to cancer vaccines, from harnessing cancer evolution to platform technologies.
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Spinout Review: Statement of Adoption
The ICR was an early adopter of the best practices highlighted in the Independent Review of University Spinouts, originally published in November 2023.
We substantively adopted the recommendations of Research England’s report following the Review, as well as the associated guidance from technology transfer body TenU.
As one of the UK’s leading Higher Education Providers (HEPs) in industry collaboration, the ICR is committed to the Review’s aims to support, streamline and speed up the formation of new spinout companies from the academic sector, including through measures to incentivise founders and investors to create them.
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