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1 week ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Gali Weinreb
Israel the loser from US-Houthi truce Tel Aviv slips in World's Wealthiest Cities ranking The donation, from Blackstone president Jon Gray and his wife Mindy, will enable the university's Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences to expand both in medical studies and research.
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2 weeks ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Gali Weinreb
Israeli-Dutch clinical stage biotech company Prilenia Therapeutics has announced a collaboration and licensing agreement for its lead drug Pridopidine, with Spanish pharmaceutical company Ferrer. As part of the agreement Prilenia will receive €125 million in immediate and near-term milestone payments and up to €500 million overall including all milestone payments as well as royalties if the product is improved and sales successfully on the market.
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2 weeks ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Gali Weinreb
How much are the Israeli digital medical data files of each patient, gathered over decades, worth to the world's leading pharmaceutical companies? Opinions on this subject are divided and change from time to time. Shortly before and during the Covid pandemic, the prevailing consensus was that databases gave the Israeli biomedical sector a huge advantage and were a factor that would attract the activities of leading companies here.
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1 month ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Gali Weinreb
Another Israeli company from the wave of tech flotations on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) in 2021 has reached the end of the road as an independent business. Food-tech company NextFerm Technologies Ltd. announced this week that it is suspending operations, except for a joint venture in India. Following the announcement, the company's share price plunged 50%, giving it a market cap of NIS 7 million, a fall of 99.5% since its IPO.
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1 month ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Ola Gutzeit |Gali Weinreb
"This trial is not intended for pregnant women" is an almost universal clause in the conditions for acceptance to a clinical trial. In the past, clinical trials excluded any woman of childbearing age, for fear she would become pregnant during the trial and the drug being tested would affect the fetus adversely. As a result, for five decades now, no new drugs have been developed for pregnant women.
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2 months ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Gali Weinreb
"Most of us know who the founders of the world's largest companies are - Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, Walmart. But does anyone know anything about the founder of the insurance and healthcare company UnitedHealth, which is just as big? Does anyone know anything about Burke? If so, we'd love it if you can tell us," begins a video on the popular YouTube channel AHealthcareZ, and it wasn't a rhetorical question. Over the 50 years since UnitedHealth was founded, Richard T.
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2 months ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Gali Weinreb
If we were to photograph your living room every day at 7 pm, we would probably learn some interesting things about you. And what if we were to photograph the contents of your garbage can? What else might we learn? Prof. Yifat Merbl of the Weizmann Institute of Science does research into the garbage cans of human cells, and in the past few years she has found treasures there.
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2 months ago | 
jpost.com | Gali Weinreb
Medical device giant Boston Scientific has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Israeli medical device company SoniVie for an immediate payment of $360 million as well as milestone payments of up to $180 million. Boston Scientific already has a 10% stake in the company. The biggest winners from the deal are the heirs of the late Shmuel Almagor, Zvika Slovin, formerly of Elron, and European venture capital funds Supernova Invest, Andera Partners, TechWald, and Omega Funds.
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2 months ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Peter Kash |Gali Weinreb
Jared Kushner builds a Middle East business empire Trump tackles Gaza taboos In Israel for IATI's MIXiii International Life Science and Health-Tech week, the US investor talks about his life science portfolio and the opportunities Israel must seize. "I love the aging process," says American Jewish businessman Peter Kash.
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2 months ago | 
en.globes.co.il | Gali Weinreb
Average wage in Israel rose 5.1% in 2024 Apartments sold and rented 85% of the senior figures in venture capital funds in Israel's biomed sector see investments by companies and foreign funds increasing in 2025 compared with 2024. 85% of the senior figures in venture capital funds in Israel's biomed (medical devices, digital health, biotech and pharmaceuticals) sector see investments by companies and foreign funds increasing in 2025 compared with 2024.
