Yosepha Shahak Ravid

Forticell Bioscience, Inc. focuses on advanced regenerative medicine and stem cell therapy. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, NJ.

Yissum Research Development Co. Ltd. (Yissum Research) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem founded in 1964. The firm is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Tel-Aviv University operates as a university in Israel. Its faculties include arts, engineering, science, humanities, law, life science, management, medicine, and social science. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Ramat Aviv, Israel.

Hadasit Medical Research Services & Development Ltd. operates as technology transfer company of Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. It identifies, protects, nurtures and commercializes the discoveries made at Hadassah Medical Center. The company's product include Doxil, Periochip, Travelan, Granagard, and Insupad. The company was founded on December 7, 1986 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Research Triangle Foundation is located in the Research Triangle Park (RTP), which is the largest research park in the United States. The RTP is located in Raleigh, NC, which was historically a southern economy dependent on tobacco, textiles, and furniture manufacturing. The park houses hundreds of companies, including science and technology firms, government agencies, academic institutions, startups, and nonprofits. The foundation offers meeting and office spaces, educational opportunities, and networking events. However, the area has since become a hub for innovation and technology, attracting a highly educated workforce.

LifeBond Ltd. engages in the development of medical devices designed to restore and repair tissues to reduce post-operative complications. The company was founded by Nir Mashkif, Orahn Preiss-Bloom and Ishay Attar in 2007 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Hadasit Bio-Holdings Ltd. /Private Equity/ (Hadasit Bio-Holdings /Private Equity/) is a private equity division of Hadasit Bio-Holdings Ltd. founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Regentis Biomaterials Ltd. engages in the research and development of proprietary hydrogels for local repair of damaged cartilage and bone. Its product is GelrinC. The company was founded by Dror Seliktar and Tal Yehiel on September 1, 2004 and is headquartered in Or-Akiva, Israel.

Biotechnology General (Israel) Ltd. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical products. Its products include Aminopeptidase B, Euflexxa, Zomacton, BioTropin, and Carboxypeptidase. The firm has operations in Europe, Japan, and the United States. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Kiryat Malachi, Israel

Cell Cure Neurosciences Ltd. develops cell therapies for neural degenerative diseases. Its therapeutic cells include retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells and neural progenitor cells. The firm's cells are derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), which are considered to be the gold standard source of cells for the development of stem cell therapies. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

KAHR Medical Ltd. develops novel fusion protein pharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases. Its drug pipeline is built around the signal converter proteins a unique class of multi-functional therapeutic agents that convert signals sent from one cell to another. The firm?s therapeutic proteins integrate two functional units, enabling each one to elicit multiple cooperative functional endpoints. The company was founded by Mark L. Tykocinski in 2005 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

International Society for Neurochemistry, Inc. operates as a professional society for neurochemists and neuroscientists. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Toronto Innovation operates as a commercialization agent. Its technologies disclosed span therapeutics, medical devices and diagnostic imaging, information and communications technologies, and advanced manufacturing and clean technologies. The company was founded by Raphael Hofstein in June 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

The Royal Society of New Zealand Council provides social services. The company was founded by James Hector and William Travers in 1867 and is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand.

Bio-MarCare Technologies Ltd. develops diagnostic kits based on novel biomarkers for early cancer identification, monitoring and assistance. Its product mCRC-Strat is a personalized medicine assay predicting responsiveness to anti EGFR therapy and Colon-MarCarePlex is a molecular assay (qRT-PCR) comprising a panel of RNA markers that can detect the advanced adenoma polyps as well as early stage colorectal cancer. The company was founded by Beatrice Uziely and Rachel Bar-Shavit in 2002 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Institute of Directors in New Zealand, Inc. operates as a membership organization. The company is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand.

Xagenic, Inc. develops the first lab-free molecular diagnostic platform. Its automated diagnostic platform will enable widespread decentralized testing to be performed outside of clinical laboratories. The firm's amplified redox assay detection technology utilizes electrochemical detection methods and does not rely on optical detection components or enzymatic amplification; crude samples can be analyzed with minimal sample processing. The company was founded by Shana O. Kelley and Edward Hartley Sargent in 2010 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Integra Holdings Ltd. operates as a holding company. It invests in the pharmaceutical industry. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Bedside Clinical Systems, Inc. develops Responses to Illness Severity Quantification (RISQ) framework severity of illness clinical decision support for frontline healthcare professionals, hospital administrators and quality managers. It provides BedsidePEWS, that uses the RISQ framework to empower frontline clinicians who care for hospitalized children. The company was founded by Christopher Parshuram in March 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Clinical Trials Ontario operates as a research and development company for various diseases. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Accel-Rx provides seed and start-up investment services to the new health sciences companies. It engages in leveraging investment support to the research and commercialization centers such as the existing health-related Centers of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECRs). The company was founded by Natalie Dakers in 2014 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Encycle Therapeutics, Inc. provides biotechnology services. It offers rapid synthesis of drug-like macrocycles or membrane-permeable nacellins which have enormous potential to target intracellular protein-protein interactions. The company was founded by Andrei Yudin is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Triphase Accelerator Corp. develops oncology drug therapeutics. It engages in accelerating oncology products from pre-investigational new drug (pre-IND) to Phase I/Phase II POC. The firm?s product includes Marizomib which is used in cancer treatment. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

QD Solar, Inc. develops photovoltaic cells using colloidal quantum dot technology in Canada. Its quantum dot technology combines silicon solar cells with infrared solar cells in a hybrid architecture to harvest more of the solar spectrum than silicon alone. The company was founded by Sjoerd Hoogland and Edward Hartley Sargent in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.