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Yeda Technology Transfer
Benefiting Humanity
Biotechnology
Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
Prof. Michael Sela

Copaxone® - MS medication

10.10.2010
Benefiting Humanity, Diagnostic Techniques and Drugs
from the institute to Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Prof. David Wallach

Anti-Inflammatory Compounds

12.09.2010
Biochemistry, Benefiting Humanity
The proteins identified by Prof. David Wallach are being used in clinical trials as anti-inflammatory compounds that may control rheumatoid...
Prof. Michel Revel

Interleukin-6

12.09.2010
Disease, Drugs & Diagnostics, Benefiting Humanity
 A drug developed  by InterPharm Laboratories Ltd. was first isolated and cloned by Prof. Michel Revel.
Prof. Yosef Shaul

Bio-Hep-B vaccine

12.09.2010
Genetics, Benefiting Humanity
Bio-Hep-B, a vaccine for hepatitis B based on Prof. Shaul's research, is produced by Biotechnology General and marketed in Israel
Prof. Yoram Groner

Genetically Engineered Human SOD

12.09.2010
Genetics, Benefiting Humanity
Genetically engineered human SOD, manufactured based on Prof. Yoram Groner's research, is now undergoing clinical trials    
Prof. Leo Sachs

Boosting Production of White Blood Cells

12.09.2010
Molecular and Cell Biology, Benefiting Humanity
In the 1960s, Prof. Leo Sachs developed the first ever procedure to grow, clone and induce the development of different types of normal blood cells...
Prof. Leo Sachs

Reversing Malignancy

12.09.2010
Molecular and Cell Biology, Benefiting Humanity
Prof. Leo Sachs was the first to show that cancer cells – in tissue cultures and in living organisms – can be made to revert to normal behavior.
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...

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Unclogging the Immune System

MRI brain scans of mice with Gaucher disease Type III. The scan of a mouse that received the new treatment (left) shows a significant reduction in tissue inflammation (blue) compared to an untreated mouse (right)

Improving the Recipe for Gene Therapy

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