[CML] Mushrooms Used to Battle Leukemia

[Cheryl-Anne Simoneau]

Here's another one - 
Mushrooms?
 


  
  
    Mushrooms Used to Battle Leukemia 12:37 Aug 03, '05 / 27 
      Tammuz 5765By A. M. 
Goldstein

  
  
     
    
    
    MyCure, a Kiriat Shemona-based start-up, is on 
      its way to developing an anti-cancer drug that will battle a form of 
      leukemia known as CML. 

  
  
    The drug is the result of research initiated by Dr. 
      Jamal Mahajna of the Upper Galilee Knowledge Center (Migal Ltd.), based on 
      work on medicinal mushrooms conducted by Prof. Solomon Wasser [pictured] 
      of the University of Haifa.The anti-cancer agent resulting from 
      this particular research breakthrough is protected by a patent filed in 
      the United States and held jointly by Carmel-Haifa University Economic 
      Corp. and Migal.The two researchers located two mushrooms that 
      contain active material with a potential to combat CML, chronic myeloid 
      leukemia, with more endurance than the present drug on the market, 
      Gleevec, developed by Novartis. The disease is relatively rare but still 
      accounts for some 20% of adults diagnosed with leukemia.MyCure was 
      set up within the Meytav technological incubator, considered one of 
      Israel's leading incubators in the field of the life sciences. The company 
      is now defining the chemical structure of the two mushroom's active 
      molecules. At a later stage, it will work on improving their other 
      biological qualities.MyCure has signed an exclusive licensing 
      agreement with the Migal and Carmel for use of the patent to develop and 
      market drugs that will overcome CML.Prof. Wasser, a senior 
      investigator at the University of Haifa's Institute of Evolution, is one 
      of the world's leading experts in studying the medicinal and other traits 
      of the lowly mushroom. He holds other patents resulting from his work with 
      fungi, and heads the Institute of Evolution's Biodiversity and Evolution 
      of Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi Center.This article originally 
      appeared in Haifa University's Focus 
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