Firm announces R&D partnerships with Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv University in brain and cancer therapies; move marks foray into 'merging of minds between academia and pharma'

Yissum, the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University, forms a strategic partnership with Japenese VC fund Universal Materials Incubator Ltd.

Israel Technology Transfer Network's annual report says 329 new licensing accords were entered into last year; most active fields for tech transfer were pharma and biotech