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Yeda Technology Transfer
Benefiting Humanity
Biotechnology
Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei

Innovative Imaging System for the Detection of Breast Cancer

12.09.2010
Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Emeritus Ephraim Frei, a founder of electronics research at the Weizmann Institute in the 1950s, spent several decades studying the effects of...
Prof. Meir Wilchek

Biorecognition

12.09.2010
Biochemistry, Benefiting Humanity
Since the 1960s, Prof. Meir Wilchek has studied "biorecognition”: the process in which biological substances "recognize" one another and form a bond...
Prof. Meir Wilchek

An Immune Cancer Therapy

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
In the late 1980s, Prof. Meir Wilchek  developed an immune cancer therapy that employs "T bodies" – white blood T cells engineered...
Prof. Michal Schwartz

Developing New Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

12.09.2010
Brain & Behavior, Benefiting Humanity
New therapies for spinal cord injury based on original concepts proposed by Prof. Michal Schwartz are being developed and tested in clinical...
Prof. Avigdor Scherz

Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer

12.09.2010
Plants and Agriculture, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Avigdor Scherz studied photosynthesis, the process by which plants capture sunlight and convert it into useful energy. Together with Prof....
Prof. Irun Cohen

A Vaccine for Type 1 Diabetes

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
DIAPEP 277, a vaccine based on Cohen’s research, was shown in clinical trials to alleviate the condition of people with juvenile (type 1) diabetes...
Prof. Eli Canaani

First Discovery of Cancer Produced by Protein Fusion

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Eli Canaani’s research provided the foundation for the development of Glivec, the first drug based on the molecular understanding of a specific...
Prof. Emeritus Nechama Haran-Ghera

Hormone Erythropoietin for Treating Multiple Myeloma

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Haran-Ghera’s research provided the scientific basis for clinical trials of erythropoietin in multiple myeloma and for testing the effects of this...
Prof. Avraham Amsterdam

Asthma Drug Used to Enhance Ovarian and Lung Cancer Treatment

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Avraham Amsterdam revealed that theophylline, a widely used asthma drug, makes ovarian and lung cancer cells more vulnerable to common...
Prof. Amos Breskin

Advanced Radiation Detectors

12.09.2010
Space & Physics, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Amos Breskin develops advanced radiation detectors, which have an important impact on many fields of research, such as particle, nuclear and...

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