Zafrira Avnur

Microbion Corp. develops topical microbial therapeutic products. It safeguards human health by overcoming infections, antibiotic resistance, and microbial biofilms with safe, effective anti-infective products. The firm is developing MBN-101 as the first product in a new class for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant and difficult to treat infections. The company was founded by Brett H. Baker and is headquartered in Bozeman, MT.

ARTMS, Inc. operates as biotechnology company, which develops novel technology and products. The company was founded by Michael Cross and is headquartered in Burnaby, Canada.

Volastra Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel therapies for patients with metastatic cancers. The company was founded by Lewis Cantley, Samuel Bakhoum and Olivier Elemento and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

CathWorks Ltd. develops medical devices for the interventional cardiology market. Its technology is based on processing visual information and automatic multi-layered algorithms. The company was founded by Guy Lavi and Ifat Lavi in 2013 and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

Enclear Therapies, Inc. develops and manufactures novel device-based therapies to treat patients. The firm device is developed to treat and halt the progression of neurodegenerative diseases by removing toxic proteins known to drive pathology. The company was founded by Anthony R. DePasqua, Jonathan J. Fleming, Kasper Roet, William B. Gormley and Kevin Eggan and is headquartered in Newburyport, MA.

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. manufactures pharmaceutical products. It offers pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical instruments, and diagnostics solutions. The company was founded by Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche on October 1, 1896 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Raziel Therapeutics RT Ltd. develops innovative technology to treat obesity disease. It is developing RZL-12, is a potential first-in-class, injectable drug for the reduction of fat cell mass. the firm developed a novel drug (NCE) that after a single injection into subcutaneous fat, converts white adipose tissue (WAT) into brown adipose tissue-like. The company was founded by Shmuel A. Ben-Sasson in 2012 and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

CalciMedica, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in drug development. It discovers and develops novel small molecule drugs for the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and organ transplant rejection. The company was founded by Gonul Velicelebi, Kenneth Stauderman, Anjana Rao, Patrick Hogan, Stefan Feske, Michael Harpold, Tom Reed, and Jack Roos in December 2006 and is headquartered in La Jolla, CA.

Eloxx Pharmaceuticals Ltd. provides biopharmaceutical research and development services. The firm specializes in the discovery, development, and commercialization of drug compounds for the treatment of genetic diseases. It focuses on the treatment of diseases caused by nonsense mutations, including Cystic fibrosis, Duchene Muscular Dystrophy, Usher syndrome, Ataxia-telangiectasia, Beta thalassemia, and Tay-Sachs Hurler syndrome. Its focus areas encompass clinical drug development and target drugs discovery programs. The company was founded by Silvia Noiman and Shmuel Tuvia in 2013 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Israel.

20/20 HealthCare Partners LLC (20/20 HealthCare Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005 by Hillel Bachrach. The firm is headquartered in Auburndale, Massachusetts.

Nemdx, Inc. is a medical diagnostic platform that focuses on revealing critical information on protein function in neurodegenerative diseases.

Sitka Biopharma, Inc. develops novel polymer platform technology that improves drug absorption for cancer treatments. The company was founded by Michael Parr in 2013 and is headquartered in Vancouver, the United Kingdom.

LifeSciences British Columbia is a non-profit organization, which engages in supporting and representing the life science community through leadership, investment, advocacy, and promotion. It ensures that no life sciences sector is working in isolation and that all sectors come together in a comprehensive, complementary, and coordinated fashion. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Knowledge First Financial, Inc. operates as an investment fund manager, administrator and distributor. It offers Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP) and financial services. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

PC-TRiADD is a translational research program. It also offers pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as external researchers, integrated translational research services such as drug discovery, preclinical testing, tumour biology and clinical research. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Phemi SystemsCorp., operates as a big data warehouse company. It serves to healthcare institutions. The firm’s products include PHEMI central and PHEMI clinical. The company was founded by Alan Rabinowitz, Paul Terry, Adam Lorant, and John M. Seminerio in 2013 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

The Vancouver Prostate Centre provides prostate cancer research, treatment, and education services. Its comprehensive, in-house research program ranges from molecular biology to functional genomics, and encompasses active clinical trials, socio-behavioral studies and research into complementary and alternative medicine. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

V-Wave Ltd. engages in the development of implantable medical device for treating chronic heart failure. It offers V-Wave Shunt, which is a biocompatible inter-atrial unidirectional implant. The company was founded by Gad Keren and Yaacov Nitzan in 2009 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.

Canary Medical, Inc. develops medical devices to collect medical data. The company was founded by William L. Hunter and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Center for Drug Research & Development operates as a drug development and commercialization company. The firm provides the specialized expertise and infrastructure to identify, validate and advance promising discoveries, and transform them into commercially viable investment opportunities for the private sector and ultimately into new therapies for patients. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Lyndra Therapeutics, Inc. develops software technology for oral drug formulations. It offers pharmacology, therapeutic impact, reduced pill burden, and reduced care giver burden. The company was founded by Amy W. Schulman, Carlo Giovanni Traverso, Andrew Bellinger, and Robert S. Langer Jr. in 2015 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

PhysIQ, Inc. provides proprietary predictive analytics for human physiology. It designs, develops and commercializes predictive analytics technologies to monitor the health of complex systems. The company was founded by Matt R. Pipke and Gary W. Conkright in 1999 and is headquartered in Naperville, IL.