Patients with Alzheimer’s disease run a high risk of seizures. While the amyloid-beta protein involved in the development and progression of Alzheimer’s seems the most likely cause for this neuronal hyperactivity, how and why this elevated activity takes place hasn’t…
According to Business Insider rank, among the 22 Most Powerful Women Engineers In The World, 3 of them are israeli! Tamar Bercovici, Yoelle Maarek, Tal Rabin. Business Insider is a fast-growing business site with deep financial, media, tech, and other…
Israeli cloud storage company CTERA Networks on July 2 announced that it raised $25 million in Series C funding to help it build out its global go-to-market organization and accelerate it platform. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round. CTERA’s existing investors Benchmark Capital, Cisco…
AcousticEye Inc., an innovator in non-traversing tube and pipe inspection for the global NDT (non-destructive testing) market, today announced that it has received additional funding totaling over $2 million from Mr. Roman Abramovich, one of the world’s most prominent investors…
Mantis Vision, a developer of the world’s most advanced 3D enabling technologies and solutions, has secured a $12.5 million strategic investment round from Qualcomm Incorporated, through its venture investment group, Qualcomm Ventures, Flextronics’ FLEX +0.01% hardware venture arm, Lab IX; Sunny Optical Technology…
Cyber security startup Hexadite, launched by three former Israeli intelligence officials, came out of stealth today and announced $2.5 million in seed funding. The money comes from YL Ventures with a contribution from former Microsoft Vice president Moshe Lichtman, a general partner at Israeli…
Prof. Eitan Kerem, world-renowned cystic fibrosis specialist and head of the Hadassah Medical Center’s Division of Pediatrics, has been awarded the European Cystic Fibrosis Society (ECFS)’s 2014 prize for his outstanding work in CF. Prof. Kerem is the principal investigator…
Dr. Rinat Abramovich, a researcher at the Hadassah Institute for Gene Therapy and a senior lecturer at the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine, has been awarded a prestigious grant of 60,000 Euros by the ESA – European Society of Anaesthesiology.…
Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) is to open a new Bell Labs office near Tel Aviv, Israel, as the research organization sharpens its focus around challenges that confront the evolution of networks. Bell Labs is a key element of…
What if one product could detect bacteria in food-processing plants, hospitals and municipal water supplies — inexpensively and in real time? Thanks to Israeli nanotechnology, that product is on the horizon and has the potential to save millions of lives…