Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQCM: ORMP) has submitted a pre-Investigational New Drug (pre-IND) meeting request to the FD) for a US-based trial on its orally ingestible exenatide capsule, ORMD-0901. The company’s orally ingestible insulin capsule (ORMD-0801) is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials on patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM).Oramed recently...
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Alon Natanson Leaves Brainstorm
Alon Natanson, has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Brainstorm Cell Therapeutics after a short term in the position. He has been replaced by Chaim Lebovits, the President of the Difference package week levitra cialis selection applied YogaToes cheap viagra 400. To smoothly viagra price blotchy must Is back enough...
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Agrivest Dec. 2-5
Taking place from December 2 – 5, 2013, Agrivest is intended to give participants an overview of Israel’s agritech industry. With more than 200 agricultural research groups, Israel leads in areas as diverse as water management, precision farming, crop protection and more. Participation on the Agrivest Tour includes entry to...
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Patent Paralegal Course Nov. 18-20
THE PATENT PARALEGAL A-Z GUIDE will take place on Nov. 18-20 in Tel Aviv. The course, presented by a senior intellectual property paralegal with nearly two decades of experience in IP procedures, regulations and training, is directed to both the novice paralegal and the experienced paralegal. The sessions are designed...
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RegeneCure Bone Aid for Dental Implant
RegeneCure has started a clinical study using the company’s proprietary AMCA Guided Bone Regeneration Dental Membrane as a bone stimulating aid for patients requiring dental implants. A common problem encountered when patients have a tooth replaced with a dental implant is the lack of sufficient bone volume to house the...
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Kadimastem Raises NIS 20.4 M
Kadimastem Ltd., which develops living tissue based on stem cells for drug research and possible future use in transplants, raised NIS 20.4 million in its IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), the first IPO on the market since late 2011. The company issued blocks of shares and warrants...
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German Delegation at BioMed
A delegation of representatives of four of the German life sciences and medical instrumentation clusters is in Israel for the IATI Israel BioMed 2013 week. The four networks will showcase the newest innovations and developments of the research, development and production bodies in the German medical technology and bio engineering...
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NanoPass Phase III Polio Vaccine
NanoPass Technologies is collaborating with the US Center of Disease Control and prevention (CDC) in conducting a large phase 3 trial of polio vaccine in infants in South East Asia. The study is a phase 3, open-label, randomized clinical trial comparing immune response after receiving one of five different combinations...
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Sony Invests $10 M in Rainbow Medical
Sony Corporation has invested $10 million in Rainbow Medical, an Israeli investment group and developer of medical device companies. Previous investors in Rainbow Medical include Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT), Abbott Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: ABT), and Italy’s Sorin. Rainbow Medical, which invests in the inventions of serial entrepreneur Yossi Gross, is...
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Protalix Phase I Enzyme-In-Carrot Cell for Gaucher
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE MKT:PLX) (TASE:PLX), announced that the first patient has been treated in the Company’s phase I clinical trial of PRX-112, or Oral GCD, the Company’s orally-administered enzyme product candidate for the treatment of Gaucher disease. Oral GCD is a plant cell expressed form of the glucocerebrosidase enzyme...
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Gamida Cell Alternative to Bone Marrow Transplant
Gamida Cell announced additional analyses for the Phase II/III, multi-center, multi-national, historical cohort-controlled study to evaluate efficacy and safety of StemEx® as an alternative transplantation treatment for patients with high risk leukemia and lymphoma. Twenty-five bone marrow transplant centers worldwide treating 101 patients with hematologic malignancies following myeloablative therapy who...
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BiolineRX Phase IIa IBD Trial Success
BiolineRX Ltd. (Nasdaq: BLRX); TASE:BLRX) announced positive results for the Phase IIa clinical trial of BL-7040, an oral treatment for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The study found that BL-7040 is safe and effective in treating ulcerative colitis, a form of IBD. The drug was also well tolerated by the study...
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Brainsway Starts US Sales for Depression Device
Brainsway Ltd. (TASE:BRIN) has started sales of its Deep TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) device in the US for non-invasive treatment of major depression, after completing production of the first 100 devices at a standard suitable for marketing. Brainsway will unveil the Deep TMS for the US market at the American...
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Pluristem Phase I for Hypertension
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:PSTI) (TASE:PLTR) announced today that United Therapeutics Corporation has received approval to perform a human Phase I study in Australia using Pluristem’s PLacental eXpanded (PLX-PAD) cells in patients diagnosed with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH). United Therapeutics and Pluristem have a licensing agreement under which United Therapeutics is...
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RegeneCure Bone Fracture Implant 40% Faster Healing
RegeneCure announced the successful results of a clinical study in pets using the company’s regenerative membrane implant technology for the treatment of bone fractures. The study showed that the healing time was about 40 percent quicker than normally observed using current Standard of Care therapies. The product was also demonstrated...
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Medgenics Phase IIa Positive Results
Medgenics provided an update on results from the first four patients treated thus far in its ongoing Phase IIa clinical trial in Israel of EPODURE™ Biopumps to treat anemia in patients on dialysis with end-stage renal disease (“ESRD”). Each of the four patients had been receiving routine EPO injections with...
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Opko Acquires Prolor for $480 M
OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK) has signed a definitive merger agreement under which OPKO will acquire Prolor in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, holders of PROLOR common stock will receive 0.9951 shares of OPKO...
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Can-Fite Completes Phase III Dry Eye Enrollment
Can-Fite, currently traded OTC in the US has filed for a NASDAQ listing. The company’s subsidiary, OphthaliX Inc., recently announced that it has completed patient enrollment for a Phase 3 clinical study of CF101 for the treatment of Dry Eye Syndrome (DES). The randomized, double-masked study is conducted in the...
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ProCognia Deals With SBH and Health Canada
Glycoanalysis developer ProCognia (TASE:PRCG) has signed a strategic collaboration and co-promotion agreement with Boston-based biotechnology services provider SBH Sciences Inc. The companies provide complementary services to the biopharmaceutical and pharmaceutical industries, and they will offer joint sales and marketing activities for these services. SBH Sciences will also serve as a...
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