Agrinnovation puts money into Cannabi-Tech, developer of an analysis device for medical marijuana flowers

Granalix BioTechnologies today announced the commercial launch of GranaGard™ a food supplement based on pomegranate oil that was shown to prevent neurodegeneration diseases in mouse models.
Granalix BioTechnologies focuses on developing science-based novel formulations of natural antioxidants that can be used for the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative conditions. The Company was established in 2014 by Prof. Ruth Gabizon from the Department of Neurology at Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel and Prof.Shlomo Magdassi at the Casali Center for Applied Chemistry, the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as a spinoff of Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the technology-transfer company of the Hebrew University, and Hadasit, the Technology Transfer Company of Hadassah Medical Organization.

BriefCam was added to the toolbox of Hartford's Real-Time Crime and Data Intelligence Center about three months ago, after members of the center's staff first saw it in action at ESPN, which sometimes aids police with enhancing video files.

Agrinnovation, the agri-tech investment fund of Hebrew University of Jerusalem technology commercialization company Yissum, has announced an investment in a medical cannabis venture. Cannabi-Tech is based on research by cofounder and chief scientific officer Prof. Oded Shoseyov, whose technologies are also the basis for other startups, including Collplant and Fulcrum.

Inventions using sound and touch soon to be commercialized from Israeli professor’s lab will give unprecedented abilities to people with visual limitations.

Belgium's Ion Beam Applications S.A. has also signed an OEM agreement with Jerusalem-based HIL Applied Medical

As the effectiveness of social networking in tech transfer has become increasingly apparent, more and more TTO leaders have engaged with a number of social networks to enhance their marketing efforts. But while many have enjoyed some level of success from their endeavors, it is unlikely that few, if any, can match the nearly 40,000 LinkedIn connections and impressive business achievements achieved by Tamir Huberman, MSc, BSc, vice president of business development for computer science and IT director at Yissum Research Development Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd.

CNN's Oren Liebermann visits a company that will help Rio monitor its bank of surveillance cameras and help authorities keep track of whats happening at street level. 
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Yissum Research Development Company Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, today announced that RenewSense was selected to enter Brainnovation, Israel's Brain Technologies accelerator. RenewSenses, based on research from the lab of Professor Amir Amedi, from the Department of Medical Neurobiology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Science, develops devices that can aid the blind and visually-disabled to navigate using other senses like sound and touch.

Therapix Biosciences, (OTCQB: THXBY) (TASE: THXBY.TA), a pharma company specializing in the development and commercialization of cannabinoid-based drugs, announced today that it entered into a binding memorandum of understandings with Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, to receive an exclusive, worldwide license to use a patent-protected formulation for nasal administration of cannabinoid substances. The technology, developed by Prof. Elka Touitou from the Institute of Drug Research at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, facilitates administration and effective absorption of the active ingredient THC nasally.

Yissum announced that it has signed a non-exclusive worldwide licensing agreement and a consulting agreement with Lightricks for the development and commercialization of an imaging technology that improves digital image processing. The technology, invented by Prof. Raanan Fattal from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at theHebrew University of Jerusalem, is called "Edge Avoiding Wavelets" and it enables better and faster detail enhancement and preserves edges when sharpening digital images.

Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has over 9,300 patents and 110 spin-offs to its name. The 52-year old company–the third oldest in the world of its kind–works closely with researchers at the university and connects them to commercial partners such as Intel and Google. It also creates an average of 10 new companies per annum, with some like Mobileye valued at over $9 billion today.

According to Yissum’s vice-president of marketing Dana Gavish-Fridman, Yissum-commercialized products generate over $2 billion in annual sales, with the company receiving a healthy three to five percent in royalties. Other sources of income include equity and investments by industry players.

HIL is betting that Nanoblaz’s nanotechnology could help them find cancer treatment

Non-invasive diagnostic test realizes the potential of circulating DNA for detection of multiple diseases

The novel technology was developed by Yinon Ben-Neriah, MD, PhD, Blumenthal Professor of Cancer Research, Lautenberg Center for Immunology, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, with generous support by AMRF (The Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation). Dr. Ben-Neriah and his team showed that inhibition of the clinically validated enzyme CKI-alpha induces several tumor suppressor pathways, including a new type of DNA damage response and p53 activation. This provides a novel approach to treat a wide range of cancers, in particular selective types of hematological malignancies. 

Imagine nanoparticles that can carry a cancer drug directly to malignant cells and release it slowly for optimal effect.
Imagine a “green” method to transform plastic waste into valuable industrial products.
These inventions were among those highlighted at Innovations in Advanced Materials, a recent conference showcasing breakthrough nanotechnologies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists for use in everything from sensors and coating materials to electronics and 3D printing.

Hebrew University's liver-on-chip platform is uniquely able to monitor metabolic changes indicating mitochondrial damage occurring at drug concentrations previously regarded as safe.
Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University, has recently filed two provisional patent applications covering the promising Liver-on-Chip technology, that will be the basis of a new company to be established together with Prof. Yaakov Nahmias. This New Company will provide diagnostic and prognostic analysis for Pharmaceutical and Cosmetics companies to help define drug safety and screen out idiosyncratic drug toxicity.

Israeli researchers develop method to diagnose diabetes, multiple sclerosis, pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis and brain damage from one blood test.
"In the long run, we envision a new type of blood test aimed at the sensitive detection of tissue damage, even without [prior] suspicion of disease in a specific organ. We believe that such a tool will have broad utility in diagnostic medicine and in the study of human biology,” said Prof. Benjamin Glaser, head of endocrinology at Hadassah Medical Center and another lead author of the study along with Prof. Yuval Dor, a developmental biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."

Eight companies were founded in 2015 through Yissum based on research at the Hebrew University’s Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.