U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb spoke with Bloomberg News about drug pricing, new medicine and regulations. This transcript of the interview has been edited for clarity and length. Bloomberg: What’s the FDA’s role to play in drug pricing and what can the agency do, given that it hasn’t traditionally had a mandate to address [...]
FEATURE: Pairing up Tech July 11, 2017 13:00 By China Daily/ANN TEL AVIV - China’s appetite for high-tech investment and Israel’s emergence as a global innovation hub make them an ideal match Chinese companies searching for high-tech investments are increasingly making their way to Israel, a country that in terms of innovation mirrors the [...]
Reuters July 11, 2017 Toyota leads $14 million funding round for Israel's Intuition Robotics Intuition Robotics, an Israeli developer of artificial intelligence robots for use by the elderly, said on Tuesday it raised $14 million in an early stage funding round led by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). OurCrowd, iRobot, Maniv Mobility, Terra Venture [...]
Gene-therapy company LogicBio Therapeutics, which develops cures for early-onset life-threatening diseases, has emerged from stealth to announce that it has raised $50 million in a financing round led by Arix Biosciences and with the particvipation of Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Pontifax, and SBI Japan-Israel Innovation Fund. LogicBio also announced that it has relocated it headquarters [...]