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Dr. Anat Cohen-Dayag (front fourth from the right) and Sam Moed (front fourth from the left) launch Israel National Biotech Innovation Center (INBI) with representatives of the 15 top universities, medical centers and health organizations in Israel, Sept. 6, 2026. (Courtesy of Yossi Zwecker)
September 8, 2026, 5:47 am
As investors dry up, national biotech hub aims to transfuse early-stage drug funding
Top academic and healthcare institutions partner to build $500 million non-profit venture to turn promising biotech research into startups that can bring lifesaving cures to market
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)
June 28, 2026, 7:13 pm
Investment in Israeli health tech startups plunged 40% in 2025 – report
While the global industry saw a resurgence in private funding, investments in Israeli startups hit a five-year low amid geopolitical uncertainty
By Sharon Wrobel
Itay & Beyond scientists and researchers at a lab at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
February 23, 2025, 8:18 am
Israeli scientists fuse ‘brain tissue’ and electronic chips to test autism treatment
Biotech startup Itay & Beyond uses AI analysis of a ‘brain-on-a-chip’ made from stem cells to predict drug efficacy for neuropsychiatric disorders, expedite testing and development
By Sharon Wrobel
Ariel and Ellay Golan with their daughter Yael. The family was severely burned when Hamas terrorists set fire to their home in Kfar Aza on October 7, 2023. The use of NexoBrid on their burns improved and hastened their recovery. (Courtesy of Evyatar Hogeg)
January 19, 2024, 4:55 pm
Innovative treatment helps family severely burned when Hamas set their home on fire
Ariel and Ellay Golan and baby Yael were in life-threatening danger after surviving in their safe room on Oct 7. Pioneering enzyme-based treatments put them on path to recovery
By Renee Ghert-Zand
CartiHeal's Agili-C implant is made of aragonite, a form of calcium carbonite. (Screenshot)
November 22, 2023, 7:15 pm
UK medical device maker snaps up Israel’s CartiHeal in deal worth up to $330 million
Kfar Saba firm’s proprietary implant treats cartilage lesions in arthritic and non-arthritic joints to help alleviate knee pain
By Sharon Wrobel
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Inside the Edity Therapaeutics lab (Edity)
July 28, 2023, 12:20 pm
Meet 007: The cell with a license to kill cancer, created by an Israeli startup
Edity is programming the body’s own immune cells to carry therapeutics to places where treatment normally cannot reach
By Matthew Kalman
Doctors demonstrate against the judicial overhaul in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
July 26, 2023, 10:17 pm
Doctors, scientists and tech leaders take stock after passage of ‘reasonableness’ law
American physicians and German research institutes offer moral support as Israeli healthcare workers weigh whether to stay and fight for scientific freedom or relocate
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Industry leaders, scientists, engineers, physicians, and investors from over 45 countries at Biomed Israel 2023 conference, Tel Aviv, May 16, 2023. (Alexander Elman)
May 17, 2023, 10:47 pm
At Biomed Israel conference, medical start-ups discuss challenges in reaching success
Companies dealing in life sciences and technology face tougher times ahead due to global economic uncertainty and political crisis at home
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image of a doctor with digital icons (chaiyapruek2520, iStock by Getty Images)
April 18, 2023, 1:56 pm
Investment in Israeli healthtech startups drops 13% in 2022 – report
But local life sciences industry proves more resilient than any other high-tech sector as firms raised $2.8 billion in 2022, IVC-aMoon report finds
By Sharon Wrobel
Endoron CEO Ronit Harpaz speaks at a demonstration in Ramat Hasharon, February 25, 2023. (Courtesy)
March 17, 2023, 6:54 am
Health tech leaders warn judicial overhaul will lead to brain drain and funding halt
CEOs and top researchers fear potential threat to democracy will jeopardize international partnerships that Israel’s innovators rely on to bring treatments to market
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An image of a woman taking Salignostics' saliva-based pregnancy test. (Salignostics)
November 9, 2022, 10:19 pm
World’s 1st saliva pregnancy test by Israeli startup to hit shelves next year
Jerusalem-based Salignostics marks entry into global pregnancy testing market valued at nearly $2 billion by 2030
By Ricky Ben-David
A person smoking marijuana. (Illustrative photo: Mr KornFlakes/iStock by Getty Images)
October 26, 2022, 12:53 pm
Cloned cannabis cells with 12 times more potency are grown in Israeli bioreactor
Company behind the tech says each gram of its product will stretch much further in treating patients than a gram from cannabis plant — and needs far less water and other resources
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: In this file photo taken on January 27, 2021, Palestinian doctors and technicians work at the IVF laboratory at the Razan Center fertility clinic in Nablus, in the West Bank. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
October 12, 2022, 6:38 am
With $92m in hand, Nazareth-based VC looks to invest in the Arab community
NGT’s new fund hopes to capitalize on burgeoning output from Arab medical sector; in 20 years, Arab Israelis went from making up 11.2% of new physicians to nearly half
By Ethan Freedman
OMEC.AI co-founders Ori Shachar, left, and Amir Harel, right. (Elad Malka)
September 28, 2022, 2:08 pm
Israeli innovation lab backed by pharmaceutical, biotech giants mints 1st AI startup
AION Labs, a Rehovot-based consortium formed by Pfizer, Merck, AstraZeneca, Teva and others, sets up company that will help drug firms improve chances of success in clinical trials
By Ricky Ben-David
Gals Bio CEO and founder Hilla Shaviv with her Tulipon device. (Courtesy)
May 16, 2022, 4:53 pm
Women entrepreneurs are leading the charge to make Israel a femtech powerhouse
Fed up with gender discrimination, founders are offering solutions to improve women’s lives, and investors are taking an interest
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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