Jerusalem’s life-sciences cluster includes three innovation centers and 140 biomedical companies. About two-thirds of those companies are involved in biopharma (making drugs from living sources rather than chemicals).
“Jerusalem has all the resources for becoming a successful bio-city. It has Israel’s top university (Hebrew University), leading hospitals, leading design center (Bezalel) and a very developed network of life-sciences and medical-engineering academic institutions,” says Joe van Zwaren, president of JLM-BioCity, created in 2012 as a networking group now boasting some 1,000 biomed professionals, entrepreneurs, scientists, doctors and investors.
Image: A worker in the labs of Teva Pharmaceuticals, Jerusalem. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90
