Mixiii Biomed 2017 Conference Program has nine main tracks consisting of invited Lectures/Panels and company presentations.
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Time slots highlighted in light blue indicate company presentations.
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| TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 | |
| 07:30 – 17:00 | Registration Open |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | Welcome by Conference Co-Chairpersons Ruti Alon, Founder & CEO, Medstrada Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner, Tel Aviv Venture Partners |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango: "Special Tribute to Mr. Shimon Peres" |
| 10:00 – 10:50 | Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, Former Intel Senior Vice President and President Intel Israel, Chairman, University of Haifa: "The exponential world, can we improve the quality of life of the elderly" |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 - 17:40 | PERSONAL DIAGNOSTICS AND PERSONAL MEDICINE HALL A |
| Symposium Chairperson: Dr. Iris Grossman, PhD, Vice President, Teva Pharmaceuticals | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Eran Eden, PhD, CEO MEMed Ltd.: "Challenges and opportunities of developing new personalized Dx Product" |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Yarmela Pavlovic and Randy J. Prebula, Hogan Lovells: "Precision Medicine: Companion & Complementary Diagnostics" |
| 12:10 - 12:25 | Dekel Taliaz, Taliaz Ltd.: "AlgoSight Antidepressant - selecting the right treatment for people suffering from depression" |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Moti Gal, NovellusDx "NovellusDx Functional Oncology Diagnostics" |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Prof. Yuval Dor, PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: "Noninvasive detection of cell death" |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Prof. Gal Markel, MD, PhD, Sheba Medical Center: "Biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitors" |
| 13:20 - 14:50 | Lunch Break |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | Dr. Mark D. Stovsky, MD, MBA, FACS, Senior Director, Emerging Business, Cleveland Clinic Ventures and Cleveland Clinic Innovations: "Innovations in Cancer Diagnostics from the Cleveland Clinic" |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Dr. Iris Grossman, PhD, Vice President, Teva Pharmaceuticals: "Harnessing biomarkers and digital markers to holistically address the individual's needs to maintain health in later decades of life" |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | Yael Glickman, Micromedic Technologies Ltd: "Innovative diagnostic platform for early cancer detection" |
| 15:50 - 16:05 | Assaf Oron, BiomX: "Modulating the microbiome to develop noveltherapeutics - an emerging field" |
| 16:05 - 16:20 | Dr. Elon Ganor, Nucleix: "Nucleix – Using Epigenetics for Cancer Detection in Liquid Biopsy" |
| 16:20 - 16:45 | Ben Newton, GE Healthcare Life Sciences: "Biomarkers development and production in the Molecular Imaging arena: GE perspective and strategy" |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Panel: Discussion & Conclusion |
| 17:45 – 19:45 | Gala Event |
| TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 | |
| 07:30 – 17:00 | Registration Open |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | Welcome by Conference Co-Chairpersons Ruti Alon, Founder & CEO, Medstrada Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner, Tel Aviv Venture Partners |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango: "Special Tribute to Mr. Shimon Peres" |
| 10:00 – 10:50 | Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, Former Intel Senior Vice President and President Intel Israel, Chairman, University of Haifa: "The exponential world, can we improve the quality of life of the elderly" |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 - 17:25 | NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES HALL B |
| Symposium Chairperson: Prof. Nir Giladi, MD, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital | |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Prof. Nir Giladi, MD, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Ichilov Hospital: "The road to early detection and prevention of neurodegeneration" |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Tami Rachmilewitz, Medical Director, NeuroDerm: "State that matters: The story of liquid levodopa" |
| 12:10 - 12:25 | Yoram Solberg, BrainsGate Ltd: "BrainsGate - Spheno Palatine Ganglion (SPG) Stimulation to Treat Acute Ischemic Stroke" |
| 12:25 - 12:40 | Eyal Baror, Neuronix Ltd.: "Neuronix Technology for Treatment of Alzheimer's disease - Results of Phase-III US Multi-Center Study" |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Prof. Michal Beeri, PhD, Sheba Medical Center: Neurodegeneration: "An economic, societal and emotional disaster and the role of brain technologies as the light at the end of the tunnel" |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Dr. Shahar Arzy, MD, PhD, Hadassah Medical Center: "Clara: a new tool for early identification of the core disorder in Alzheimer's disease" |
| 13:20 - 14:50 | Lunch Break |
| 14:50 - 15:15 | David Simon, PhD, Medtronic, RTG Brain Therapies Neurosurgery: "Medtronic Brain Therapies: Achieving our Inorganic Growth Aspirations" |
| 15:15 - 15:35 | Dr. Ilana Schlesinger, MD, Rambam Medical Center: "Essential tremor and Parkinson's - frontiers of therapeutics (Insightec)" |
| 15:35 - 15:50 | Yuval Mor, Beyond Verbal Communication Ltd.: "Using AI to Revolutionize Healthcare" |
| 15:50 - 16:05 | Son Preminger, Intendu: "Intendu Active Brain Trainer - Transforming Brain Health in Aging and following Injury and Disease" |
| 16:05 - 16:25 | Prof. Shai Efrati, MD, Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research: "Hyperbaric treatment for cognitive health" |
| 16:25 - 17:25 | Panel: Discussion & Conclusion |
| 17:45 – 19:45 | Gala Event |
| TUESDAY MAY 23, 2017 | |
| 07:30 – 17:00 | Registration Open |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | Welcome by Conference Co-Chairpersons Ruti Alon, Founder & CEO, Medstrada Dr. Benny Zeevi, Managing General Partner, Tel Aviv Venture Partners |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder of Pitango: "Special Tribute to Mr. Shimon Peres" |
| 10:00 – 10:50 | Shmuel (Mooly) Eden, Former Intel Senior Vice President and President Intel Israel, Chairman, University of Haifa: "The exponential world, can we improve the quality of life of the elderly" |
| 07:30 – 17:00 | Registration Open |
| 11:20 - 15:45 | THE IMPACT OF AGING ON POPULATION HEALTH AND WORLD ECONOMY HALL C |
| Symposium Chairperson: Prof. Shlomo Noy, MD, PhD, Sheba Medical Center | |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Prof. Shlomo Noy, MD, PhD, Sheba Medical Center: "The impact of aging population on health technologies and economy" |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Stephen A. Kagan, MD, FACP, Healthy Ageing Center of Excellence; Senior Director, Rare Disease, Global Medical Affairs,Pfizer, Inc.: “Framing Our Work Around a Platform of Healthy Ageing” |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Assaf Sella, Kytera Technologies LTD: "A New Paradigm For Aging In Place" |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Yaron Tal, ChroniSense Medical, Ltd.: "ChroniSense" |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Avner Halperin, EarlySense: "Democratizing Healthcare: Empowering Proactive Care at Home" |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Prof. Tzvi Dwolatzky, MD, MBBCh, Rambam Medical Center: "Frontiers in Medicine: New Leadership for Geriatric Medicine" |
| 13:20 - 14:50 | Lunch Break |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | Rami Cohen, TelesofiaMedical: "Personalized videos for the elderly" |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | Omri Shor, Medisafe: "5 Guiding Principles for Sustained Patient Engagement in Medication Adherence" |
| 15:20 - 15:45 | Ziv Ofek, Founder and CEO, CDI (Center for Digital Innovation): "Healthy Aging: when challenges meet Innovation" |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | START-UP COMPETITION |
| 17:45 – 19:45 | Gala Event |