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Below are some highlights of MHC’s top tier media placements for its medtech clients.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

Israeli Medtech Incubator MEDX Seeks $60 Million for Venture Fund
MEDX Xelerator, a medical-technology incubator in Israel that has launched several startups that have gone on to raise outside venture capital or strike deals with large companies, is raising $60 million for its first venture-capital fund.
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AUTHORITY MAGAZINE

Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech: Dr. Michal Izrael of Kadimastem On The 5 Leadership Lessons She Learned From Her Experience
Leadership is taken, not given. You should take a leadership role only if you believe in the purpose, NOT for nurturing your ego. There are many ways to do it. Find your own path to lead, where you can live in peace with yourself, and be the person you wish to see in others.
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THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW

NASA Aerospace Engineer Empowers Unrepresented People To Pursue Engineering
NASA employee Aisha Bowe is breaking barriers as one of a tiny percentage of Black female aerospace engineers. She is on a mission to bring more people like her into the field with her company STEMboard, which exposes underserved individuals to careers in STEM.
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MEDTECH STRATEGIST

MEDX Xelerator’s Strategy for Seeding Device Companies: Intensive Collaboration
A former worldwide group head of marketing at Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, Harel Gadot founded the Israeli venture firm MEDX Ventures Group in 2011 after realizing that medical device companies depend too heavily on internal R&D and need to embrace external innovations, but support for these kinds of initiatives was lacking. Several of its portfolio companies were sold, and one went public on NASDAQ.
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WALL STREET JOURNAL

Startup Advances Digital Solution to Dangerous Surgical Complications
Good day, Israeli startup Exero Medical is advancing digital technology designs to enable early detection of dangerous surgical complications.
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NBC LX

Kadimastem Ltd.'s VP of R&D and ALS expert Michal Izrael, Ph.D. explains, in a LIVE interview, the importance of May ALS Awareness month, the treatments in development, and how we can all help support patients and their families.
It was really fun working on this segment for NBCLX, plus it was for an important cause. Great combo!! Watch Kadimastem Ltd.'s VP of R&D and ALS expert Michal Izrael, PhD explain, in a LIVE interview, the importance of May ALS Awareness month, the treatments in development and how we can all help support patients and their families. Special thanks to Krista F. and the rest of the fabulous NBCLX team for sharing this story. All the respect.
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BIOWORLD™

The Israeli incubator nurturing the next generation of med-tech innovation
The need to develop advanced medical technologies is ever increasing, and one incubator is on a mission to identify the world’s most promising opportunities. In cooperation with partners including Israel Innovation Authority, Israeli incubator Medx Xelerator LP is expanding a portfolio of startups that are attacking some of health care’s biggest challenges.
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PHARMAPHORUM

Tackling diabetes & ALS with cell therapy
Israeli company Kadimastem is developing regenerative medicine therapies based on differentiated cells derived from human embryonic stem cells to treat diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and diabetes. Catherine Longworth spoke with Kadimastem’s head of diabetes research, Kfir Molakandov to find out more.
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CORUZANT TECHNOLOGIES

Deduce Healing with New Scientific Breakthroughs in Diagnostics.
Diagnosis is crucial to providing efficacious healthcare. Let’s have a look at the history.
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ENDOVASCULAR TODAY

VeinWay’s Traversa Device for Venous Recanalization Completes FIH Compassionate Use Procedure
VeinWay announced the completion of a first-in-human (FIH), compassionate-use procedure approved by the FDA that used the company’s Traversa device for venous recanalization to save a patient’s leg that was close to being amputated.
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HOSPIMEDCA

Post-Surgery Tissue Monitoring and Diagnostic System Detects Anastomotic Leaks after GI Surgery
Anastomotic (AI) leak is a common, life threatening complication of gastrointestinal (GI) surgeries such as colorectal and bariatric. Early detection before clinical manifestation of AI leak is key to a favorable outcome, but diagnosis at this stage is difficult. Now, a tissue monitoring and diagnostic system is being studied for the early detection of AI leaks following low anterior resection GI surgery.
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CARDIAC RHYTHM NEWS

Append Medical raises US$4.35 million in initial closing of extended series A round
Append Medical has raised US$4.35 million as part of an extended series A round, which will be used to support the company’s first-in-human trials of Appligator.
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MEDICAL DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

Append Medical Raises $4.35M for Left Atrial Appendage System
Append Medical has raised $4.35 million as part of an extended series A Round. Investors include participants from the first tranche of the A round as well as new investors, Shoni Health Ventures and ALIVE Israel HealthTech Fund. The funding announced today will be used to support the company's first-in-human trials of Appligator.
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Diabetes Connections

Stacey Simms From Diabetes Connections Dedicated An Episode Of Her Weekly Podcast To Sigi™.
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BIOWORLD™

Kadimastem signals Nasdaq listing, lands $3.2M from Ilex Medical
Ilex Medical Ltd. has injected $3.2 million into cell therapy company Kadimastem Ltd., as it prepares to list on the Nasdaq. As part of the investment, Ilex Medical was granted a total of 1,407,130 options (60% coverage) in two series, at exercise prices of $2.2 and $2.7 per share (up to 100% from the share price at the transaction). If exercised, it would increase the total investment to $6.7 million.
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MEDTECH STRATEGIST

Exero Medical: Detecting Surgical Complications Before They Turn Lethal
Exero Medical’s internal monitoring device xBar makes clinicians aware of the signs of anastomotic leaks, an often deadly and undetected complication of GI tract surgeries, to enable safer, personalized treatment options, reduce hospitalization time, and improve patient survival rates.
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CORUZANT TECHNOLOGIES

Magenta Medical CEO Dr. David Israeli interviews on the Coruzant tech podcast about Elevate™, the smallest heart pump in the world.
Dr. David Israeli is the Chairman & CEO of Magenta Medical, a start-up company developing a temporary mechanical circulatory support device for acute indications. Immediately prior to this, David was the Chief Medical Officer of Ossio Ltd., a start-company developing novel implants for orthopedic fixation.
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DRUG DISCOVERY WORLD

Marjie Hadad talks to cell therapy expert and Kadimastem CEO Asaf Shiloni about the potential of cell therapy.
“I am attracted to cell therapy because traditional medicine has reached its limitation in treating the ailments of the 21st century,” says Asaf Shiloni, 20-year biotechnology executive, cell therapy expert and CEO of Kadimastem.
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BIOWORLD™

Synchrony Targets US Market For Airway Clearance System
Israeli startup Synchrony Medical Ltd. is gearing up to begin a U.S. clinical trial testing an airway clearance method developed at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center.
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ENDOVASCULAR TODAY

VeinWay’s Traversa Device for Venous Recanalization Completes FIH Compassionate Use Procedure
March 2, 2023—VeinWay announced the completion of a first-in-human (FIH), compassionate-use procedure approved by the FDA that used the company’s Traversa device for venous recanalization to save a patient’s leg that was close to being amputated.
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VENOUS NEWS

VeinWay crossing tool sees first-in-human compassionate use for venous recanalisation
In a first-in-human, compassionate-use case approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), University of Michigan Health (Ann Arbor, USA) interventional radiologists David M Williams and Minhaj S Khaja successfully used VeinWay’s Traversa for venous recanalisation to save a patient’s leg that was close to being amputated.
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