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Israel Biotech Fund (IBF) – to invest $100Million in Israeli Biotech Industry

Posted in BioTechnology - Venture Creation, Venture Capital, CANCER BIOLOGY & Innovations in Cancer Therapy, tagged , , on July 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Israel Biotech Fund (IBF) – to invest $100Million in Israeli Biotech Industry

Reporter: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN

 

Israel Biotech Fund (IBF) – investing $100Million, initiated by Mendham Investment Group (MIG), a group of senior figures in the global biotech industry who admire Israel and have been helping selected Israel biotech startups for years to invest in Israeli biotech industry,

  • The founder of MIG is Dr. Sol Barer, founder and former CEO of Celgene, another biotech giant with a $73 billion market cap.
  • former Pfizer senior executive Jeff Kindler – Other leading MIG officeholders;
  • Ed Saltzman, founder and president of Defined Health, a leading consultant firm;
  • Dr. Robert Spiegel, former Schering Plough Chief Medical Officer and VP;
  • and many others.

Today, IBF, selected cancer drug developer Vidac Pharmaceutical

for its first investment. 

 

Israel Biotech Fund (IBF) Management:

  • David Sidransky, one of the world’s leading cancer researchers
  • Ido Zairi, former Wall Street banker
  • Yuval Cabilly, molecular biologist, a private investor in biotech companies and son of Prof. Shmuel Cabilly, responsible for the Cabilly invention that led to a breakthrough in cancer treatment.

 

Investors in IBF in the US:

  • Biogen
  • Israeli company Medison, a marketer of drugs in Israel – Meir Jakobsohn מאיר יעקובסון, Founder & CEO at Medison Pharma
  • a major pharmaceutical company that preferred to remain anonymous.

Dr. Robert Spiegel told “Globes,”

“Sol Barer used to bring together a group of senior executives at his home to advise Israeli startups in an informal atmosphere. From that came the idea of of investing as a group in these companies. Most of the group members have themselves invested in the fund, in addition to strategic investments. The fund’s management group in Israel has the backing of MIG and all of our connections with pharma companies, which are also calling us, because they are very interested in the Israeli market.

“We’re not just aiming at exits. Our dream is that with the fund, we can help establish at least one independent company. Up until now, Israeli companies have been forced by budget considerations to make an exit at Phase II or III clinical trials at the latest, and we’re trying to change that. Israeli companies sometimes choose to focus on orphan drugs or a small disease because they lack money, even if their product is suitable for bigger markets, and we’re hoping that we can help them obtain a suitable budget, so that they don’t have to limit themselves.”

The focus on Israel is of course motivated by Israeli patriotism, but Spiegel says, “We’re almost always stunned by the quality of science in the companies we meet. The constraint is usually money, which the companies haven’t received at all, or have received in small doses that weren’t enough to enable them to take off.”

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news – www.globes-online.com – on June 29, 2016

© Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2016

SOURCE

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-biotech-fund-raises-100m-1001136253

 

Vidac Pharmaceutical – IBF first Investment

 

Management Team

Dr. Oren M. Becker joined Vidac Pharmaceuticals as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2013.

http://www.vidacpharma.com/about-us/management-team

 

Therapeutic Areas

 

ONCOLOGY

 

  • Solid Tumors

http://www.vidacpharma.com/solid-tumors-vidac-pharma

 

  • Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma (CTCL)

http://www.vidacpharma.com/therapeutic-areas/oncology/cutaneous-t-cell-lymphoma-ctcl

 

DERMATOLOGY – Oncology

 

  • Skin Cancer –

Melanoma, the most aggressive and invasive skin cancer, 2% of skin cancers evolve from melanocytes. Rare types of skin cancer include skin lymphoma, Merkel cell carcinoma, and Kaposi sarcoma

http://www.vidacpharma.com/skin-cancers-melanoma-and-non-melanoma-vidac-pharma

 

http://www.vidacpharma.com/cutaneous-squamous-cell-carcinoma-cscc-vidac-pharma

 

http://www.vidacpharma.com/actinic-keratosis-vidac-pharma

http://www.vidacpharma.com/actinic-keratosis-vidac-pharma

 

TECHNOLOGY

 

·      VDAC/HK2 Modulators

http://www.vidacpharma.com/technology/vdac-hk2-modulators

 

·      Association of HKs to VDAC

http://www.vidacpharma.com/technology/vdac-hk2

 

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