ILSI-Biomed Israel

A French Delegation in the Negev

A French delegation has visited today (Sunday, 13.6.2010) at Ben-Gurion University, as the guest of Bio-Negev, the international center for innovation in the biotechnology industry and life sciences in the Negev. The purpose of the visit is to examine potential collaboration between the visitors and the new initiative in the Negev, BGU being one of the partners in the project. Prof. Rivka Carmi, president of the university, places a great amount of value in the initiative, which can be direct...

Avraham Pharmaceuticals: $9 M Funding for a Multy-functional Alzheimer drug

Avraham Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has raised $9 million from Yissum Research Development Company (the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Pontifax, Clal Biotechnology Industries (CBI), Professor Marta Weinstock-Rosin and others.   Yissum has announced that, together with the Technion Research and Development Foundation (TRDF), the technology transfer arm of the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, it will exclusively license to Avraham the commercial rights of La...

BGU Study finds that Anti-inflammatory Drugs Interfere with Aspirin’s Clotting Ability

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University reveal that anti-inflammatory drugs interfere with aspirin's clotting ability, making it near useless for the prevention of heart attacks and strokes in millions of people Oftentimes, we find that certain medications aren’t quite as useful as we imagined they were, or that they have unwanted side effects. This usually occurs with newer drugs, like Merck’s Vioxx, but now Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University reveal that one of the oldest medicati...

BGU Study finds that Anti-inflammatory Drugs Interfere with Aspirin's Clotting Ability

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University reveal that anti-inflammatory drugs interfere with aspirin's clotting ability, making it near useless for the prevention of heart attacks and strokes in millions of people Oftentimes, we find that certain medications aren’t quite as useful as we imagined they were, or that they have unwanted side effects. This usually occurs with newer drugs, like Merck’s Vioxx, but now Researchers from the Ben-Gurion University reveal that one of the oldest medications ...