Current residents
Portfolio - Current Residents - Pepticom
Pepticom Ltd. founded in 2011, is focused on the discovery of novel peptide-drug candidates. Pepticom’s key asset is a unique Artificial Intelligence platform for peptide design, based on the target's solved crystal structure. Pepticom operates in various markets, generating innovative binding peptides for diverse targets. Past successful discoveries include active molecules in metabolic diseases, Alzheimer's disease and Immunomodulators.
Dr. Immanuel Lerner CEO
Dr. Amit Michaeli Co-Founder and CTO
Dr. Maayan Elias Robicsek Business Development Officer
Dr. Shaul Lerner Chief Biologist
Dr. Lev Shapira PeptiCov project leader
Ms. Guila Assayag Scientist
Ms. Dikla Haham Research assistant
Portfolio - Current Residents - Nectin
Nectin Therapeutics, established by Integra Holdings in 2017, is dedicated to the development of next generation immuno-oncology antibodies. The company's antibodies are based on the discoveries and inventions of Prof. Ofer Mandelboim from the Hebrew University and Prof. Stipan Jonjic from the University of Rijeka. Integra Holdings & Yissum are the key shareholders.
Dr. Guy Cinamon VP R&D
Dr. Pini Tsukerman CSO
Mr. Anas Atieh Lab manager
Dr. Alon Vitenshtein Senior Scientist
Dr. Akram Obiedat Senior Scientist
Portfolio - Current Residents - Omnix medical
Omnix Medical founded in 2015, is developing novel antibiotic agents for the treatment of hospital-acquired infections involving drug resistant bacteria. Omnix’s technology is based on natural antimicrobial peptides, biochemically engineered to be compatible for therapeutic applications. Omnix’s lead molecule, OMN6, employs a unique mechanism of action, representing a new antibiotic class, characterized by a rapid-bactericidal effect. OMN6 was found to be active irrespective of resistance to other antibiotic drugs, and thus, offers a safer more efficient alternative to current therapies.
Dr. Moshik Cohen-Kutner Co-Founder & CEO
Dr. Niv Bachnoff Co-Founder & CSO
Mr. Rom Lakritz CPA, Co-Founder & CFO/COO
Ms. Shira Merchavia Research Director
Ms. Janna Michaeli Preclinical Director
Dr. Jonathan Zazun PharmD, CMC Director
Ms. Noa Nur Research Scientist
Ms. Esti Rotshtein Operations Manage
Current Residents - Protica
Protica Bio was founded in 2022. The company combines cutting-edge proteomics and machine learning to improve immunotherapy-based clinical decisions and new drug discoveries to revolutionize diagnostic prediction and future treatment. The company is utilizing a proprietary platform developed by a leading expert in the field of Mass spectrometry from the Weizmann Institute. In addition to laboratory research, the company integrates deep proteomics with machine learning to create diagnostic capabilities and elevate the response rate for current and future treatments.
Dr. Olga Nissan, Founder and CEO
Ms. Mor Levy, Senior Scientist
Current companies - DairyX
DairyX, founded in 2022, is a FoodTech startup that aims to produce animal-free dairy products by producing functional milk proteins in yeast. DairyX seeks to create products that taste and cost like traditional dairy products without the health hazards and hurting animals and using a ~10% of the land, water, and CO2e resources needed for the conventional dairy industry.
Arik Ryvkin, PhD, Founder and CEO
Maya Bar-Zeev, PhD, Head of DSP & product development
Galit Kuznets, PhD, Head of strain development & Fermentation
Current Residents - Ambrosia.bio
Ambrosia Bio ltd. is a biotech company developing an enzyme-based technological platform capable of converting everyday sugars into low- to no-calorie rare sugars (e.g., allulose, and others) and dietary fibers (scFOS) in a cost-effective manner. Ambrosia bio's business model is based on revamping sugar refineries into specialty ingredient production sites.
Ziv Zwighaft, PhD, MBA, founder and CEO
Avraham Laban, PhD, CTO
Amir Barzilay, Chairman
Yoav Herschkovitz, PhD, IP & Regulation Affairs
Stanislas Baudouin, VP engineering
Current Residents - Nucleotech
NucleoTech, founded in 2022, is dedicated to enable better, noninvasive therapeutic solutions to CNS disorders. Through its innovative screening method, NucleoTech develops a set of proprietary carrier molecules that can effectively shuttle various therapeutics across the Blood-Brain Barrier, thus overcoming one of the main hurdles for effective, noninvasive CNS treatments.
Uriah Bekenstein, PhD, Co-Founder & CEO
Adi Koplovitz, Co-Founder & COO
Naftali Cohen, Co-Founder & head of Business
Tehila Dahan, PhD, R&D Manager
Beata Toth-Cohen, PhD, Research Adviser
Current Residents - CultivO2
CultivO2 Ltd. founded in 2024, offers an innovative bio convergence platform for the autonomic culture of animal tissue utilizing photosynthetic microalgae, while reducing the amounts of bioreactor-based cell propagation and replacing bioreactors entirely in the differentiation, scaffolding and hypertrophy processes. Thus, it enables cost reduction and scalability of cultured meat production.
Dr. Michal Breker-Dekel, Founder and Co-CSO
Prof. Ofra Benny, Founder and Co-CSO
Dr. Oded Kopper, CTO and interim CEO
Dr. Bayan Mashahreh, R&D leader