Israeli firm MeMed won a contract worth up to $9.2 million from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to complete the development of a point-of-care in vitro diagnostic platform that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections, and so help to prevent antibiotic misuse. MeMed’s diagnostic platform uses infection-specific immune [...]
BiolineRx buys UK co Agalimmune 23 Mar, 2017 14:29 Gali Weinreb BiolineRx is paying $6 million upfront for Agalimmune, which has developed a new immunotherapy solution for treating cancer. BiolineRx Ltd. (Nasdaq: BLRX); TASE:BLRX) has announced the acquisition of Agalimmune Ltd., a private UK-based company with an innovative, anti-cancer immunotherapy platform. BiolineRx is paying [...]
Цифровая медицина: новые изобретения израильтян Производство электронных медицинских приборов стало одной из перспективных отраслей израильского хай-тека. В 2016 году местные фирмы, создающие их, привлекли 183 миллиона долларов в свои разработки. Это следует из отчета компании «Start-UP national central», который был представлен в преддверии открытия израильской технологической конференции Mixiii Biomed 2017. В нашей стране она будет [...]
Some 385 companies operate in the field, with personal health tools and analytics leading deal volume BY SHOSHANNA SOLOMON March 28, 2017 Israel’s digital health sector grew significantly in 2016, both in terms of funding and in terms of the number of companies, with investments jumping almost 30 percent to $183 million in 2016 from [...]
21 Mar, 2017 13:53 Globes correspondent China-based venture capital fund Rimonci Capital and co-investor Gauss Group led the financing round. Israeli ophthalmic device co EyeYon Medical founded by ophthalmologists Dr. Arie Marcovich and Dr. Daphna Ofer, and managed by CEO Nahum Ferera, has raised $6.5 million. The company, which emerged from the Val Leer incubator, [...]
MedyMatch Application to Help Doctors Identify Head Trauma and Stroke MedyMatch Technology recently announced a collaboration with IBM Watson Health to bring MedyMatch’s A.I.-based clinical decision support application to imaging experts working in hospital emergency rooms and other acute care settings to help doctors identify instances of intracranial bleeding as a result of head trauma [...]
Imaging analytics promise to change the practice of radiology, an Intermountain official says. By Bernie Monegain March 16, 2017 Intermountain Healthcare is working with Zebra Medical Vision, a deep learning imaging analytics company, based in Israel to integrate machine learning in medical imaging analysis. The goal is to provide better patient care. Here’s how it [...]
PolyPid is developing a localized delayed release antibiotic for treatment of bone infections. Israeli company PolyPid Optimized Therapeutics, which is developing a localized delayed release antibiotic for treatment of bone infections, has announced its acceptance to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Qualified Infectious Disease Program (QIDP). QIDP is a fairly new FDA status [...]
06 Mar 2017 ANALYSIS Health IT is set to be one of the subjects explored at the MIXiii BIOMED annual conference, Israel's leading international life science industry conference. The conference, now in its 16th year, will be held in Tel Aviv in May and is expected to attract over 6,000 participants. This year the leading theme [...]
6 Mar, 2017 Gali Weinreb Cnoga's non-invasive devices measure health through optical diagnosis of the changing color shades of a finger. Chinese company BOE has invested $50 million in Israeli company Cnoga Medical for 23% of the company's shares, reflecting a company value of $217 million, the two companies today reported. The shares given to [...]