But the £4.6bn research funding budget was frozen.
We understand the risk and consider the H5N1 research safe.
So did doctors at about half of the 17 research centers involved in the study.
The survey also polled the 25 research and doctoral institutions that enroll the most foreign students.
Professor Chris Brink is the vice-chancellor of Newcastle University and chair of the N8 research partnership.
Now, a further 130 centre sites are at risk of closure, according to the 4Children research.
Doctors at about half of the 17 research centers involved stood to profit if the Prodisc succeeded, according to confidential information from a patient's lawsuit settled last year.
As she notes, "fewer than half of the 300 research universities actively seeking patents have managed to break even from technology transfer efforts".
The FOV2GO research project from the Mixed REality Lab at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies.
The ACT21S research was developed through a collaboration between Cisco, Intel and Microsoft.
