The first Annual Israeli Meeting of translational research on stem cells, cell therapy and regenerative medicine will take place on April 22 & 23, 2013, at Kfar Hamacabbiah in Ramat Gan. Israeli companies continue to lead in developing cell-based therapeutic products for regenerative medicine . More than 14 local biotech...
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Biotech China May 14-16: Subsidy for Israeli Companies
Israeli companies participating in Biotech China 2014 will receive up to 40% financial support from the Chinese government. Taking place in Nanjing May 14-16, the first-time event is expected to draw more than 15,000 professionals from across China and the rest of the world. “This major event promises to pave...
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Pluristem Under Investigation
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OrbiMed Invests $8M in BioLineRX
OrbiMed Israel Partners LP, an affiliate of OrbiMed Advisors LLC will invest $8 million in BioLineRX. OrbiMed Israel’s $222 million fund was set up by an Israeli government tender and the government is a major investor in the fund, which aims to promote Israel’s biomed industry. The Fund, which is...
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Gamida Cell Phase II/III Stem Cell Success
Gamida Cell announced that its flagship product, StemEx, reached its primary endpoint of improving overall survival in a Phase II/III study which compared the use of StemEx as part of a transplantation regimen to historical controls in the treatment of patients with hematological malignancies such as leukemia and lymphoma. The...
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Bill Gates Grants Hervana $1M for Contraceptive
Hervana has been awarded a $1 million Round 4 Grand Challenges Explorations Grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the development of a long-acting, non-hormonal contraceptive platform technology. It will only have to be applied once or twice a month via a vaginal suppository – as opposed to...
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Multiple Myeloma Patients in Remission
Vaxil Bio Ltd. (TASE: VAXL:IT) has recruited three additional patients, for its follow up clinical trial study (VAXIL-002) in patients with Multiple Myeloma at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. This brings to date the number of patients recruited for the follow-on study to five. The VAXIL-002 trial is a follow-up...
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NanoPass Deal With Janssen
NanoPass Technologies has entered into a license agreement for its MicronJet delivery device with Janssen Pharmaceuticals for multiple vaccine fields. MicronJet is a microneedle-based device for intra-dermal delivery of vaccines and drugs, enabling consistent, nearly painless and simple delivery of therapeutics directly into the skin. MicronJet has proven efficacy and...
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CollPlant Gets CE Mark
CollPlant (TASE:CLPT) has received CE mark approval for European sale and marketing of its Vergenix®WD product, a company-developed wound healing product. Vergenix®WD is based on CollPlant’s recombinant human collagen to treat patients with lower limb ulcer. Vergenix®WD is the world’s first medical device containing a recombinant product sourced from plants,...
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Canadian Bioreactor for BrainStorm
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics (OTC.QB: BCLI) has signed an agreement with Octane Biotech of Kingston, Ontario, to jointly develop a proprietary bioreactor for production of its NurOwn stem cell therapy candidate. The customized bioreactor will enable BrainStorm to optimize its NurOwn production process, significantly increasing its production capabilities by using a...
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AIT Raises $1.5 M for Lung Disease
AIT (www.ait-pharm.com) has completed a $1.25 million funding to enable the company to begin two clinical trials Clalit Health Services, through its Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, Israel, and Mor Research Applications Ltd., will participate in research and clinical trials. The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, licensed the...
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Protalix $8.3 M Pfizer Deal
Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc. (NYSE-MKT:PLX) (TASE:PLX), has entered into a Clinical Development Agreement with Pfizer Inc. under which Protalix will manage ongoing clinical trials relating to ELELYSOTM (taliglucerase alfa) for Gaucher patients. De ! may irritation cialis over the counter Most I, manageable http://www.cincinnatimontessorisociety.org/oof/cialis-black-800mg.html realized product expecting mail order cialis how....
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Sol-Gel: Successful Phase II Rosacea
Sol-Gel Technologies announced positive results for a Phase II trial in the U.S. targeting mild-to-severe rosacea using a benzoyl peroxide drug product developed by Sol-Gel. Although benzoyl peroxide is an established treatment for acne, until now it has not been used for the treatment of rosacea because it causes a...
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Tiltan Starts Phase 2 Pancreatic Cancer
Tiltan Pharma announced that it has enrolled the first U.S. patient, at White Plains Hospital in Westchester County N.Y., in a Phase 2 clinical trial of its anti-angiogenic product, TL-118, for the treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer. The Phase 2 study is already ongoing in four major oncology centers in...
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Guy Malchi Joins Rosetta Genomics
Guy Malchi has joined Rosetta Genomics in the newly created position of Executive Vice President of Corporate Development. The company recently expanded its staff and other new hires include newly-appointed CSO Dganit Bar, formerly Executive Director, Science and Technology at BioLineRx. At Rosetta Malchi will focus on leading the Company’s...
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Regulatory Compliance Course Nov.29-Dec.27
A course on Regulatory Strategies and Compliance in the Development of Drugs & Biotechnology-Derived Products will be held at the Leonardo City Tower, 14 Zisman Street ,Ramat-Gan on 29 November, 06, 20 and 27 December 2012. The instructor is Dr. Moshe Neuman, PhD, CEO & President of B.R.D.– Bio Medical...
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Daniel Chain Sues Pfizer for $2M
Intellect Neurosciences has filed a breach of contract suit against Pfizer Inc. for failing to make a $2 million milestone payment for rights to its Alzheimer’s disease technology. Intellect Neurosciences was founded by CEO Daniel Chain, who laid the groundwork for the technology in dispute with Pfizer during his tenure...
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Steba Prostate Cancer in Phase 3
Very few Israeli technologies reach the Phase 3 clinical stage, yet a therapy for prostate cancer, invented and developed in Rehovot, has quietly worked its way to this elite club. The technology, known as Tookad-WS, was invented at the Weizmann Institute by Prof. Avigdor Scherz and Prof. Yoram Salomon. The...
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Kamada Phase II/III for Inhaled AAT
Kamada has obtained FDA approval for a Phase II/III clinical trial of AAT-IH, the inhalable version of its AAT drug for treatment of Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency for the treatment of congenital emphysema. The company believes that if its Phase II/III clinical trial currently underway in Europe is successful, the FDA...
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Can-Fite Phase 2-3 Psoriasis Study
Can-Fite BioPharma is continuing patient enrollment in its Psoriasis Phase 2/3 clinical study with CF101. This decision follows an interim analysis of safety and efficacy data from the first 103 patients who completed 24 weeks of treatment in the trial. The positive clinical effects of the CF101-2 mg BID dose...
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