STEWART ROGERS | APRIL 16, 2018 8:30 AM The first question most people have when talking about #artificialIntelligence is if it will help us or harm us. But in the health industry, the answer to that question is clear. Whether it is being used to identify patients at risk or interrogate #X-rays and scans to aid in diagnosis, AI promises to [...]
23 Apr 2018 | Lucie Ellis Executive Summary Scrip investigates the big issues Israel's #biopharma sector need to overcome in order to maintain momentum and achieve sustainable success. AHARON AHARON, CEO OF THE ISRAEL INNOVATION AUTHORITY. Source: Israel Innovation Authority In its 70th anniversary year, Israel can rightly celebrate the boom in its high-tech sector over the last [...]
The Israel-based startup partnered with the American National Kidney Foundation and Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System to offer its testing kits to U.S. patients Lilach Baumer | 19:26 15.04.18 The American National Kidney Foundation and Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System have partnered with Israel-based startup Healthy.io to enable smartphone-based urine tests at home. On Monday, the three will [...]
MS drug developed by Mapi Pharma requires a once-monthly injection instead of 3 times a week By TOI STAFF 11 April 2018, 12:19 am | Times New Israel Mylan already sells a generic version of Teva Pharmaceuticals’ widely-used MS treatment, Copaxone. But, if GA Depot successfully completes its Phase III clinical trials, it will be formidable competition [...]
The medical device developer intends to integrate Israel-based Visionsense's operations into its own activities Meir Orbach | 10:16 10.04.18 | Calcalistech Medical device maker Medtronic PLC is buying Israel-based medical visualization company Visionsense Ltd. for $65 million, two people familiar with the matter told Calcalist on condition of anonymity. Visionsense will receive an upfront payment of [...]
EMERGING ISRAELI BIOPHARMA FLIES FLAG FOR EX-BMS CANCER THERAPY by Phil Taylor | Apr 10, 2018 9:57am | FierceBiotech Israeli biotech Ayala Pharmaceuticals, founded last year as a development vehicle for two of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s cancer candidates, has raised $17 million in a series A financing. The new company licensed rights to BMS’s gamma secretase inhibitor BMS-906024 in December, [...]
April 2, 2018 | GEN News Highlights AstraZeneca’s #MedImmune subsidiary has agreed to exclusively license and develop #bispecific and multispecific #immuno-oncology antibody products from Compugen’s pipeline, through a collaboration that #Compugen said today could generate for it up to $210 million-plus. Compugen said it will grant MedImmune an exclusive license to develop bispecific and multispecific antibody products [...]
As part of the deal, InSight commits to help develop CureTech’s lead product, which is currently in advanced #clinical trials Lilach Baumer17:4228.03.18 Pharmaceutical company InSight Biopharmaceuticals Ltd. has signed a deal to acquire cancer treatment company CureTech Ltd. The announcement was made Wednesday by Clal Biotechnology Industries, which holds 53% of CureTech’s shares. As [...]
The ambitious plan is designed to make Israel a digital health power and improve the health of its residents, and of the entire world. Israel's cabinet today approved a NIS 922 million budget for a national digital health project. The plan includes a number of elements, the combination of which is designed to make [...]
MARCH 6, 2018 BY FINK DENSFORD Google (NSDQ:GOOG) is taking its Cloud services into the field of healthcare as it aims to enable data sharing and collaboration between providers and patients, according to a recent blog post from the tech giant. The company said it recently launched the Cloud Healthcare API service to address interoperability issues in [...]