VisionGate has entered into a collaboration with the Sheba Medical Center l to evaluate whether its LuCED(TM) test can reduce false positive results when used in conjunction with x-ray CT screening for early lung cancer. LuCED(TM) is used in tandem with VisionGate’s automated 3D cell imaging platform, the Cell-CT(TM), which...
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Medigus Raises NIS 9.3 M for World’s Smallest Medical Camera
Medigus has raised 9.3 million shekels in order to progress with regulatory approvals for its medical procedure video camera. Less than 1 mm in diameter, the camera is the world’s smallest video camera – just 0.99 mm in diameter. The miniature cameras are are designed specifically for small-diameter disposable endoscopic...
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Brainsway Trial for BioPolar – Positive Results for MS
trials is expected during 2012. Brainsway Ltd. (TASE:BRIN) has received an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the FDA, allowing it to begin a multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of the Deep TMS device in the treatment of subjects with bipolar disorder. The IDE was granted in respect...
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Headway Raises $500,000
Headway Raises $500,000 Headway has raised $500,000. The company is now in the advanced stages of developing Occiflex, an ergonomic medical device for the treatment of chronic head and neck pain. The company expects revenues within a year. Occiflex performs a three-dimensional sequence of movements in space that mimic conventional...
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Nova Scotia: Marine Research and Brain Science
Marine research and brain science are two likely areas for life sciences collaboration between Nova Scotia and Israel, observed Premier Darrell Dexter during an October visit to Israel. The Canadian provincial leader, in an interview with BioIsrael, cited the Halifax Marine Research Institute, — which draws on the expertise of...
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Mentor for Medical Device Startup: Vascular Procedures
The US Israel Business Council is seeking mentors to work with promising Israeli startups. In the medical device arena the Council has selected HDH Medical. The startup has developed and commercialized a platform technology for creating suture-less anastomosis in hollow organs, including the treatment of occlusions, aneurysms and traumas in vascular surgery....
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BrainStorm Gets $1.1 M OCS Grant
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. (OTCBB: BCLI), has received a grant from Israel’s Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) for $1.1 million (NIS 3.8 million) . BrainStorm is performing a Phase I/II human clinical trial in Israel with the company’s adult stem cell therapy in patients with ALS, often referred to...
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Foamix Phase I/II Acne Study
Rehovot-based Foamix Ltd. announced that two Institutional Review Boards reviewed and cleared its Phase I/II clinical study for Minocycline Foam in Acne patients. The Phase II multicentre clinical trial is designed to assess the safety and clinical efficacy of Foamix’s topical Minocycline Foam in patients with moderate to severe acne....
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LycoRed Microencapsulates Omega 3 in Cookies
Beer Sheva-based LycoRed has launched an Omega 3 supplement that can be used in baked goods and candies because it is able to survive heating. The company has completed successful trials of its supplement in chocolates, crackers and bread. LycoRed whose main business is natural nutritional supplements and colorants, launched...
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Cheryl Singer: MarCom Specialist
Marketing communications is a largely misunderstood field in the life science industry, says Cheryl Singer. Too often, she points out, CEOs or CTOs have no idea that their style of writing or approach to presentations, does not speak to their audience. Learning this the hard way is not uncommon. Cheryl...
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Compugen at European Antibody Congress
Compugen CEO Dr. Anat Cohen-Dayag will be one of the Israeli companies presenting at the European Antibody Congress in Geneva on Nov. 29. The 7th annual European Antibody Congress covers antibody development, antibody production and monoclonal antibodies. The event includes presentations by Roche, Novartis and MedImmune on monoclonal antibody developments. Topics include: how...
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