Events

Israeli biotech – Good for what ails you

Israel is the world leader in patents for medical devices, relative to population size, and second in the patenting of biopharm products, including pharmaceuticals and treatments. Israel is eighth in the number of patents granted in the life-sciences industry, which may be the most amazing statistic of all, given the amount of time and money companies must invest in getting a product or technology tested and patented. This week, the Israeli biotech industry was having its annual confer...

Opportunity to Present and Win at 2011 ILSI – BioMed Conference

How many times have you given an elevator speech that yielded NO RESULTS? This is a Call for a Change - Don't Miss the Opportunity to Present and to Win at the upcoming 2011 ILSI - BioMed Conferenc. Once again, BioJerusalem is delighted to hold the ‘Start Up's Pavilion’, offering start-up companies the opportunity to showcase their technologies and products. In addition, this year they offer start ups, for the first time, increased exposure with the opportunity to present your company...

The Final Countdown: ILSI-BioMed Israel – Only A Month Away

May 23-25 2011. ILSI-BioMed Israel 2011, that is. The 10th international Life Science & Technology Week is just around the corner. The event follows the highly successful 2010 BioMed conference which attracted more than 6000 participants from 51 countries. LSI-BioMed 2011 will present high-quality program, featuring top-notch industry executives. Israel's most innovative medical device and BioPharma entrepreneurs, major pharmaceutical companies, life science research leaders, poli...

The Israel Conference in Los Angeles

What: The Israel Conference™ encompasses a full day of inspiring global leaders, exciting company CEOs, prominent investors, and internationally recognized industry executives gathering to discuss the vitality and growth of Israel-facing business through a variety of panels on hot industry topics and trends with world-class speakers and high-quality networking. Companies are from high tech, clean tech, medical tech, consumer products, energy, security, and entertainment media technology. ...

Announcing Shizim’s 2011 Competition for Best Biomed Initiative in Israel

Shizim's 2011 Competition for Best Biomed Initiative in Israel. 1st Prize: Up to $55,000(*) worth professional services. The fourth annual competition is organized by Shizim in co-operation with The Israel Export and International Co-operation Institute and the 23rd Conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT), and the following business sponsors: GCP Clinical Studies – Israel's leading CRO; Asis Enterprises – the leading business development company for ...

BIOPHARMA 2011: “From Science to Industry”

BIOPHARMA 2011: “From Science to Industry” - the 3rd Russian & International Symposium - is held in Tel Aviv, May 16-20, 2011. Location and dates: Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Israel May 16 – 20, 2011 Venue: Renaissance Tel-Aviv 5* Structure of the Symposium: - plenary sessions - sessions focused to individual topics - round table discussions Special emphasis will also be placed on informal discussions and there will be ample opportunity to meet and exchange views outside the lecture r...

JSBarkats Sponsors 2011 US/Israel Venture Summit in New York

NEW YORK, March 22, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JSBarkats PLLC ("JSBarkats") announced today that it will be sponsoring the 2011 US/Israel Venture Summit in New York, March 29th -- 30th, 2011. The US/Israel Venture Summit, presented by youngStartup Ventures, is the premier gathering where cutting-edge Israeli startups meet top venture capitalists, angel investors, Corporate VCs and investment bankers from throughout North America. See http://www.youngstartup.com/usisrael2011/overview.php. ...

Prof. Michael Karin and Prof. Alexander Polyakov – Winners of 2010 Harvey Prize

Prof. Michael Karin and Prof. Alexander Polyakov are the winners of the Technion’s 2010 Harvey Prize. Prof. Karin, from the University of California, San Diego, will receive the prize in the field of human health. He discovered the strong link between obesity, inflammation and cancer. The judges decided to award the prize to Prof. Karin for “his pioneering contribution that led to deciphering the molecular mechanism through which mammalian cells react to cytokines which cause inflammation...

A call for hot ‘Start Ups’

If you are a representative of an biomed start-up company, you have the invitation to participate in ILSI-Biomed 2011 Conference to be held May 23-25, 2010 in Tel-Aviv. The conference is a meeting place for industry and academia from Israel and abroad. Exuberance is felt everywhere: lectures and exhibition halls and partnership meetings. International visitors come to hear about and witness the various innovations, and experience first hand the entrepreneurial spirit so strongly exhibited wi...

The enigma of inflammation in ALS: What can be learned from other neurological diseases?

An international workshop of the Israel Science Foundation, The Legacy Heritage Fund and IsrA.L.S The goal of the meeting is to bring together cutting-edge scientists from the neurodegenerative diseases, and to focus on the enigma of inflammation in ALS. Inflammation is one of the hallmarks characteristic of neurodegenerative diseases, yet targeting it has yielded inconsistent, conflicting data and even fatal clinical outcomes. This conference will focus on this emerging aspect of ...