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Biomarker spinout founded by Dunn School alumni holds successful flotation on AIM

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Oxford Biodynamics, a biomarker company set up by former Dunn School researchers Dr Alexandre Akoulitchev and Dr Aroul Ramadass, completed a successful flotation on AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s international market for smaller growing companies, on 6 December 2016.

Spun out in 2007 by Oxford University Innovation, the company has commercialised technological breakthroughs in a new generation of biomarkers for cancer and other diseases.

Read more (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology website)

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